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Prologis Explains Why Today’s Supply Chains Require More Logistics Space

In today’s world, 57% more logistics real estate is required to support $1 billion in retail sales than a decade ago, a new analysis by Prologis has found. Ten years ago, 500,000 SF would have been sufficient to do the job. Today, 800,000 SF is needed. “Today, these supply chains amount to 1.2 billion SF and support $1.4 trillion in retail sales (on 2022 dollars basis),” Prologis reported. This has happened despite automation and data analytics advancements, to create what it calls “the supply chain productivity paradox….”

Why Real Estate Investors Like the Self-Storage Industry

There are many reasons why the self-storage sector attracts real estate investors. For one, it is recession-resistant with predictable revenue. Also, customers for self-storage units are typically paying a relatively low rent, as opposed to single-tenant real estate such as retail or office buildings where occupants are on the hook for a bigger check each month which can carry more risk…

Prologis Looks at Four Global Trends Impacting Logistics

Logistics giant Prologis has been looking at the forces affecting logistics real estate and points to four areas that will have the biggest impact. First is a fall in volatility “because of the multiplier effect on demand and structural discipline in supply.” One is a “multiplier effect on demand.” More economic activity is now tied up in logistics. Each unit of growth now needs 20% more additional logistics then before the pandemic.

Cantor Fitzgerald and Silverstein Properties Announce Joint Venture Partnership with Collins Capital Partners and Kaufman Jacobs and Closing of Construction Financing for Multifamily Opportunity Zone Development in Chesterfield County, VA

Affiliates of Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P., (“Cantor Fitzgerald”), a leading global financial services firm and real assets investment company, and Silverstein Properties (“Silverstein”), a leading global full-service real estate development, investment, and management firm, announced that they have entered into a joint venture with Collins Capital Partners (“Collins”), a nationally recognized real estate firm and Kaufman Jacobs, a real estate private equity firm. The venture will develop The James at Springline, a mixed-use project including 298 rental units and 28,000 square feet of ground-level retail located in a qualified opportunity zone in Chesterfield County, near Richmond, VA…

Cultivating Wealth via Specialty Farmland

Smart investors are always on the hunt for the ideal asset class to diversify their portfolios without sacrificing returns. Traditional stocks and bonds have their merits, but true diversification and outperformance requires thinking outside the box. Enter farmland, an underfocused asset class offering strong, stable and uncorrelated returns to drive portfolio diversification….
 

Improving Your Presentations

Are you familiar with the term “word wall?” We recently encountered many word walls during our time at a conference. Imagine this: you’re seated in a conference room, staring at a screen filled edge-to-edge with words in a small font. Despite your best efforts to squint and engage with the content, the speaker’s words become background noise. Read on for tips on avoiding the word wall and making your presentations engaging. 

Shopoff Sells Del Taco-Anchored Retail Center in Fullerton

Shopoff Realty Investments (“Shopoff”) has sold the hard corner of the current Sunrise Village Shopping Center located in the City of Fullerton, California. The sold property includes the Del Taco drive-thru ground lease, and a 6,355-square-foot three-tenant pad, with current lessees, Papa John’s Pizza, Sunrise Optometry, and Coffee Code. The buyer is Dream ERE: Real Estate, a local Orange County investor…

NAV REITs Report Barely Positive Median Total Returns for August

The median monthly total return for 16 continuously offered nontraded REIT programs (“NAV REITs”) was 0.03% in August, compared to 0.21% in June. Eight of the 16 reported positive total returns. This is the second month since November 2022 that, as a group, the continuously offered nontraded REIT programs have reported a positive median return, albeit a very small one…

Know Your Non-Traded REITs: An Insight into Non-Traded REITs and Their Evolution

Driven by market pressures and regulatory changes, non-traded real estate investment trusts (non-traded REITs) have evolved over time to become more appealing to today’s investors. Fund structures today offer greater efficiency and transparency while continuing to provide the benefits of indirect ownership in institutional-quality commercial real estate. This whitepaper will provide an overview of REITs of all types, focusing on non-traded REITs, how they have evolved, key features of today’s product, the importance of technology-driven administration solutions and how innovations in analytics can be used to improve distribution.

5 Proven Ways to Supercharge Your CTAs

Ever felt that pang of frustration when you can’t find something right in front of you? Just like a misplaced phone on your desk, your clients feel the same when they can’t decipher the next step on your website or email. The solution? Powerful and clear calls to action (CTAs).

A Brief History of Alternative Investments (and the Current State of Play)

The history of alternative investments is a story of diversification, innovation, and adaptation to changing financial landscapes. Alternative investments refer to a broad category of assets that extend beyond conventional investments like stocks, bonds, and cash. “Alts” have garnered increased interest over the years as investors seek new ways to boost portfolio returns, reduce risk, and access fresh opportunities…

Urban Catalyst Floats Housing Instead Of Offices At Icon/Echo

Urban Catalyst is now considering adjusting plans for Icon/Echo by replacing the office component with more housing in Downtown San Jose, Santa Clara County. The plan was floated by the developer founder, Erik Hayden, and reported by George Avalos for the Bay Area News Group. If altered, Icon/Echo could create over a thousand units from the two-acre parcel.

ExchangeRight’s Essential Income REIT Acquires $84 Million Portfolio

ExchangeRight, one of the nation’s leading providers of diversified real estate DST and REIT investments, has announced that the company’s Essential Income REIT has acquired a portfolio of 15 net-leased assets, adding 231,654 square feet of net-leased property to the Essential Income REIT…