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15 Jan 2025

Strategic Moves and Technology Transform Convenience Stores

How Convenience Stores are Transforming to Maintain Success   After COVID-19, convenience stores emerged as essential hubs for quick and easy access to food, snacks, and other everyday items. With significant shifts in the retail landscape—particularly the rise of electric vehicles (EVs), which threaten fuel sales for traditional retailers—many convenience store chains are refocusing on […]
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27 Jul 2022

The Value Battle | Big-Box vs. E-Commerce

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Big-Box Retailers VS. E-Commerce Big-box retailers have largely been unpenetrated by the internet, as frequent and everyday deals keep consumers returning to the stores searching for the latest merchandise. However, the pandemic launched e-commerce five to ten years into the future and forced many of the major players’ hands as they began to open new […]

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26 Jul 2022

Child Care Sector Overview

Investment Opportunity in the Child Care Sector The child care sector is growing rapidly due to a shift in economy and employment, making the industry a key market for investment asset opportunities. The need for on-demand child care is driven by rising incomes, more dual-career couples, population growth among children under age 5, and more […]

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26 Jul 2022

Southeast Asset Types Seeing the Most Activity

4 min read

How is Southeast CRE Holding Up? To ride out the uncertainty of interest rates and rising costs, investors are placing their capital in durable commercial real estate assets in top-performing markets with excellent fundamentals and growing populations. The Southeast is on the receiving end of investor interest, boasting robust industrial pipelines, historically high multifamily rent […]

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25 Jul 2022

Why Investors Are Keeping Watch On Grocery-Anchored Retail

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Investors Eye Grocery-Anchored Retail According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, food-at-home prices increased 11.9 percent year-over-year in May, a 1.4 percent increase from April. This marks the fifth straight month of increases of at least one percent for the food-at-home index. Yet, one underlining statement remains the same: everybody has to eat and […]

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25 Jul 2022

What Is a Pad Site?

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The Shopping Center Must-Have Given the whirlwind of events the past three years, retailers are reconsidering their locations and space needs, indicating a change is on the horizon. Now that retailers understand their business model after re-examining shopping behavior through online habits, a new generation of shopping centers is anticipated to emerge. One highly sought-after […]

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21 Jul 2022

What Draws Investors to the Life Science Sector?

4 min read

The Life Sciences Boom The Life Science sector is a break-out commercial real estate asset type taking the market by storm. Both private equity and public funding are pouring billions of dollars into the industry, reaching $39 billion in 2021, according to JP Morgan Chase. Yet life sciences was an expanding asset class long before the […]

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21 Jul 2022

What an Increase in CPI Means for Multifamily Owners in Los Angeles

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The Consumer Price Index is measured by the average change in prices over time in a fixed market basket of goods and services. In June 2022, prices in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), increased 1.1%, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor […]

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19 Jul 2022

Investing In A Bear Market

What Is a Bear Market? During a bear market phase, investing can be risky even for the most seasoned of investors. In most cases, a bear market symbolizes a deep selloff in the market, an economic downturn that has been caused by a decrease in the value of securities, or by an increase in interest […]

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19 Jul 2022

Cleveland, OH Retail Market Report | Q2 2022

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Cleveland Market Overview According to the World Population Review, Cleveland is the second-largest city in Ohio with a whopping population of 372,101 people. Cleveland’s growth is mainly driven by industrial, healthcare, and tech companies. The market boasts affordability, a low-density population, and a corporate-friendly environment, making the metro an appealing climate for residents and investment […]

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