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Store Closing Foreboding for Malls

May 11, 2017 by Randybaconin Real EstateLeave a Comment

A new research report from Fung Global Retail & Technology, an international think tank that follows retail and technology trends, uses hard data to outline what retail property owners and managers already know—store closing announcements this year have been off the charts.

Fung Global researchers found that year-to-date in 2017, store closing announcements in the U.S. increased by 97 percent year-over-year, to 3,296 locations. The majority of retailers closing stores are typical mall tenants—department store operators and apparel and electronics sellers. The chains with the highest number of announced store closings, for example, include apparel retailer Rue 21 and shoe seller Payless Inc., each with 400 closings apiece. Apparel chain The Limited comes in third, with 250 announced store closings.

Read entire article here in National Real Estate Investor.

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5 Things You Need To Know About Industrial Real Estate

May 2, 2017 by Randybaconin Real EstateLeave a Comment

The first three months of the year boded well for the industrial sector, which remains red-hot, hitting record low vacancies nationally and record net occupancy gains. Below are five key trends investors and commercial real estate players should be aware of within the industry.

National industrial vacancy levels hit 30-year lows this quarter. Vacancies continued to decline across the country by 20 basis points in Q1 to 5.3%. This is 300 basis points below the 10-year historical average of 8.3%, Cushman & Wakefield’s Industrial Market Beat reports.

Read entire article in Bisnow.com

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Commercial Real Estate Lender That’s Reaching Way Past Arkansas

April 5, 2017 by Randybaconin Commercial Mortgage LendingLeave a Comment

Fayetteville Commercial Real Estate Mortgage Financing — Commercial Real Estate Mortgage Financing Fayetteville

The focus in commercial real estate finance is often on big national banks like JP Morgan or big foreign ones like Deutsche Bank, but it would be a mistake to overlook the Southern lender that’s been making waves in the commercial real estate industry, bringing a little bit of the Ozarks to the world of high finance.

Bank of the Ozarks, based in Little Rock, Ark., broke into CrediFi’s ranking of the top 10 New York City lenders in the fourth quarter of 2016 with over $500 million in loan originations and a 3.0 percent market share.

The bank had previously made the list in the first quarter of 2016, ranking as No. 7, with over $400 million in financing and a 2.4 percent share of New York City’s commercial real estate market, but dropped from the top 10 list in the second and third quarters.

View entire article here in National Real Estate Investor.

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Commercial Real Estate Plays It Safe

October 14, 2016 by Randybaconin Real EstateLeave a Comment

U.S. commercial real estate prices have reached new highs, but the sector is a much safer place today than it was before the 2008 financial crisis.

Moving On Up

Commercial property prices have surpassed pre-recession levels, but that doesn’t mean a crash is inevitable

Low capitalization rates — the net operating income a property generates relative to its price — might normally keep investors away, but low borrowing costs have made potential returns from commercial real estate attractive.

View entire article at Bloomberg.com

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Banks Tightening CRE Lending Standards

August 26, 2016 by Randybaconin Commercial Mortgage Lending, Real EstateLeave a Comment

CRE Loan Growth Still Strong but Moderates in July as Analysts Sees More “Rationality” Return to the Market

Second quarter bank earnings results and early third quarter lending numbers clearly show U.S.-based banks have tightened their underwriting standards for CRE loans as they face increased scrutiny of their commercial real estate lending from bank examiners.

In fact, loan officers at domestic banks reported that the current standards are tighter now than they have been on average since 2005, according to the latest Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey from the Federal Reserve.

The tighter underwriting is showing up in shortened interest-only periods and lower loan-to-value (LTV) ratios as well.

Read entire article on CoStar.com

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Best and Worst Apartment Markets in 2016

July 19, 2016 by Randybaconin Commercial Mortgage Lending, Real EstateLeave a Comment

It’s a tough time to pick the strongest apartment markets. That’s because the markets with the strongest demand from renters are also the places where developers are the most eager to build new projects. As a result, the strongest and weakest markets so far in 2016 tend to be places where some kind of surprise has upset developers’ calculations—for better or worse.

Strong despite new supply

Rents are growing quickly in a few cities, including Seattle and Nashville, Tenn., despite very high levels of new construction. “The San Francisco Bay Area, Denver and Seattle have easily been the best performing major markets this cycle,” says Jay Denton, vice president with data firm Axiometrics. “Of that group, Seattle is the only one that remains in the upper-tier of rent growth today.”

Read entire post in National Real Estate Investor here.

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