What are commercial mREITs: At their core, commercial mREITs operate simple businesses. They write short-term, floating-rate loans collateralized by pre-stabilised (transitional) commercial real estate assets. They then turn around and lever up the returns on these loans using financing from…
Real estate is a simple business, but the devil is always in the detail. Nowhere is this more apt than with the retail sector. Where an industrial building usually has one tenant and an office building often only has a…
It’s been a tough few years for real estate professionals tasked with monitoring the goings on in the office market in the U.K. and Europe, to say the least. But in these uncertain times, surprisingly few grasp the chance presented…
In the Farrelly Brothers 1996 comedy classic Kingpin, actor Randy Quaid’s character Ishmael Boorg famously states “I want to go to Reno.” The storyline of the movie centers around a young Amish bowler making it to Reno, Nevada for a…
The fate of the theatre industry has been a topic of debate in recent years. Not only did the industry endure a zero-revenue environment throughout Covid, but since then, theatres have suffered from a lack of content due to the…
The industrial sector and office sector have both seen significant flux in the past year. In a global macroeconomic environment filled with shifting trends and difficult lending policies, the commercial real estate (CRE) market is filled with market participants hunting…
Amidst a continually fluctuating macroeconomy with shifting interest rates, lending regulations, and the like, capital allocation has become a key focus of most commercial real estate investors and participants. Recent bank policies turning away from CRE lending given the uncertainty…
Price transparency is a vital tool for Commercial Real Estate (CRE) investors to leverage in their underwriting and investment strategies. Valuation in any sector or market comes down to valuing your investment and returns appropriately to empower your underwriting with…
Demand negatively surprised for the Industrial sector in 1Q24 for many reasons, but primarily for the warehouse inventory issues related to real retail sales drops. This is hardly good news for rent growth projections looking into the coming quarters –…
Market participants in Canada are boasting a vast commercial real estate market ripe with opportunity. According to various public sources such as Statista, the Canada CRE market is already valued at nearly $2tn and is expected to boast a Compound…
