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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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14 Dec 2021

U.S. Migration Snapshot | Where are Americans Moving?

8 min read

  In 2018, core urban markets witnessed retail expansion, especially for experiential retail that targeted younger generations. In 2019, millennials continued to push growth in the urban core, trading square footage for convenience to live near these communities. In 2020, COVID-19 was introduced, disrupting urban markets. Many people reevaluated their housing choices, and high-density residential […]

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9 Dec 2021

Is a 1031 Exchange Right for Me?

6 min read

  1031 Exchanges are a popular tax deferral strategy for real estate investors, wherein a commercial property owner sells one or more of their assets in exchange for one or more like-kind (investment real estate) properties of equal or greater value and defers capital gains taxes. Commercial real estate owners have the opportunity to capture […]

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8 Dec 2021

Data Centers | What Are They and How to Invest

3 min read

  The need for data centers has steadily increased as the internet grows in ability and accessibility. The year 2020 was a landmark year for the product type, and investor momentum continued into 2021. The global pandemic accelerated the demand for cloud services and streaming media as employees worked from home and residences became the […]

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2 Dec 2021

Podcast | Confidence Returns to Multifamily Investment

  The pandemic has been a bumpy ride for the multifamily market. Apartment owners faced reduced rent collections, accelerated migration patterns that re-allocated demand to new markets and a federal eviction moratorium. As it turned out, these challenges only served to show the resiliency of the asset class. This year, investor confidence has been fully […]

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2 Dec 2021

Multifamily Market Report | Savannah, GA

4 min read

  Savannah has attractive multifamily tributes, including tight vacancies, impressive rent growth, and an active investor pool. The Port of Savannah has largely driven job growth in the metro as it is one of the largest ports in the country and consistently ranks as the fastest-growing port in the nation in terms of throughput. Additionally, […]

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1 Dec 2021

Multi-Tenant Retail Market Report | Panhandle Florida

3 min read

  Multi-tenant retail demand has strengthened in Florida’s panhandle due to improving market conditions, elevated leasing trends, and overall increased transactions. Gainesville and Tallahassee each hold world-ranked universities, according to the U.S. News & World Report top 100, the University of Florida and Florida State University, respectively, which help drive the local economy. Following national […]

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24 Nov 2021

Q&A – The Key Components to Funding A Project

4 min read

  How has the capital- raising process changed over the years? There is more capital in the market seeking opportunities than ever before. Despite the competition for capital going towards good deals, base underwriting has stayed conservative and realistic for the most part over the years. In addition to familiar underwriting, investors, including institutional investors, […]

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24 Nov 2021

A Whopping Recovery – Why Los Angeles Remains a Great Investment

6 min read

  Los Angeles has had its fair share of challenges over the decades, but it continues to attract new talent and investors seeking opportunities. These challenges include the financial crisis, COVID-19, and Los Angeles’s biggest Achilles heel – housing construction. They have all shaped the area’s current real estate landscape and the shifting market preferences. […]

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24 Nov 2021

The Next Frontier – A Retail Financing Update

5 min read

The COVID-19 pandemic stirred up uncertainty within the retail sector, but as retail properties begin to rebound from the effects of the pandemic, lenders have returned to quoting and closing loans. The sale of retail properties was up at a double-digit rate in July, but despite this impressive growth, volume was still muted relative to […]

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