Investment

Orlando-Area Shopping Center Sells for $12M

Corporate Property Group Inc. sold the three-building asset completed in 2018. SRS Real Estate Partners negotiated the deal on behalf of the seller.

Chesapeake Agrees to Sell NYC Hotels for $138M

The two Hyatt-branded Manhattan properties are slated to change hands in September, prior to the trust’s prospective $2.7 billion merger with Park Hotels & Resorts Inc.

Washington REIT Sells $485M Retail Portfolio

First Washington Realty acquired the 800,000-square-foot group of five grocery-anchored shopping centers in high-income neighborhoods of the Washington, D.C., area.

KBS Sells Raleigh Office High-Rise

The Class A asset last traded in 2013, when a joint venture that also included Kane Realty Corp. shelled out $98.4 million.

Harbor Group Buys South Florida Office for $33M

The roughly 101,000-square-foot asset in Sunrise traded for the first time in a decade. The new owner intends to perform capital improvements at the three-story building.

Global Mutual Buys Triangle Office Park for $81M

BBVA Compass Bank provided the buyer of the nearly 430,000-square-foot Class A research campus with a five-year, $61.6 million acquisition loan.

Sector-by-Sector Real Estate Review

Commercial real estate investors hope for the best as downturn looms.

Singapore-based investors were highly active in U.S. commercial property markets last year, including CapitaLand, which scooped up a 3,787-unit multifamily portfolio for a total of $838 million last September. The 16 communities acquired by the real estate firm in the western U.S. include (from top): Marquessa Villas, a 336-unit community in Corona, Calif., and Stoneridge at Cornell, a 233-unit asset in Portland, Ore. Images courtesy of CapitaLand Ltd.

Foreign Investment Moves Beyond the Gateways

Lofty prices and compressed yields are causing global buyers to prospect in other lucrative, business-friendly states such as Texas and Florida.

Institutional Insights: Return to Core Values

As market volatility mounts, these investors are shifting their property type and geographic exposures and taking advantage of the latest proptech innovations.

Strategic Storage Trust IV Buys Seattle-Area Facility

The REIT expanded its footprint with a 350-unit storage asset in Redmond, Wash. The six-building property changed hands for $11.5 million.