Digital Edition
Bricks & Mortality
Local centers that combine necessity with impulse shopping have been seeing a greater volume and frequency of foot traffic, while today’s regional mall needs an anchor experience or attraction that will make it a destination. How can retail real estate owners control the fate of their retail center?
The May digital issue of CPE is now available!
The May 2017 issue offers a focus on the retail sector, including insights on the fate of shopping centers, lenders’ outlook on the single-tenant net-lease market, a roundtable of prominent retail executives, and more!
A Cautious Step Forward
Uncertainty surrounding the political climate led to a softening in retail investment toward the end of last year, and so far, 2017 is not much better.
Nothing But Net
As the net lease sector continues to take on its own asset class presence, investors and lenders are increasingly putting their capital into the property type, especially single-tenant, triple-net leased properties. Net lease owners with investment-grade tenants in place are most attractive to investors, but a lack of available inventory is leading some lenders to widen their options.
Retaining Office Tenants in Transitional Times
How best to hold onto footloose companies? With the balance of power in many major markets gradually shifting, trends shaping the field suggest changes ahead.
Retail’s Challenge
Creativity. Innovation. Reinvention. These are popular buzzwords today. And perhaps no sector has proven their value better than retail.
Solid Base
In Washington, D.C., as in so many jurisdictions throughout the country, commercial property assessments and taxes have steadily increased for the last five years.
Flipping the Script
Merle Gross-Ginsburg is a seminal figure in the advancement of women in commercial real estate. Trading her native Galveston, Texas, for Manhattan’s Upper West Side, she set out to rehabilitate the neighborhood, and in the process, became the first person to create a brownstone co-op in New York City. A pioneering property manager and brokerage professional, she launched AREW, the first organization for women real estate professionals, in 1978. Now retired, she continues her advocacy.