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Dania Pointe lands its first big retail tenants

Brandsmart USA, Hobby Lobby and TJ Maxx are the first major retailers to agree to lease space at Dania Pointe, a shopping and entertainment center under construction in Dania Beach just east of Interstate 95. New York-based developer Kimco Realty Corp. also announced that the 300,000-square-foot

Florida’s Industrial Real Estate Market Continues Evolving

Are we at pre-recession levels yet?

Commercial lenders are banking on the repeal of Dodd-Frank to improve the increasingly tight lending atmosphere in South Florida. While the pace of requests hasn’t slowed down, most lenders The Real Deal spoke to said they are not financing ground-up development at this stage in the real estate cycle. And they are much more selective these days about which ongoing projects they do give loans to.  Author:  Katherine Kallergis.  Source:  The Real Deal.  Read more…

According to the latest research from CBRE Group, Inc., capitalization rates on U.S. commercial real estate remained largely stable in the second half of 2016, as prices softened slightly. Ongoing investment demand, especially from foreign buyers, counteracted the rise in interest rates and cyclical factors.

The CBRE North America Cap Rate Survey provides insights on movements for the major property asset classes. Cap rates in the second half of 2016 either largely stayed the same or increased slightly compared to the first half of the year. The industrial sector remained the most stable sector, benefiting from market expectations that it will have stronger rent growth than other asset classes in 2017.  Author: Michael Gerrity.  Source: World Property Journal.  Learn more…

The growth of all the REIT’s aggregate market capitalizations has increased 68,074 percent in 45 years. NAREIT reports that from 1971 (Market Cap = $1,494 million) to 2016 (Market Cap = $1,018 billion) the REIT industry has grown to an extremely substantial industry. Granted, this growth is highly skewed as the REIT industry has drastically changed in the last almost-half century, and there are considerably more REITs in existence today than at the genesis of the industry. But what if you did invest in the REIT industry at the beginning and continued to invest along the way? Would you have more of a generational investment outlook?  Author: David Sobelman, Founder & CEO, Generation Income Properties.  Source: Commercial Property Executive.  Learn more…

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