FAIR LAWN, N.J. — NAI James E. Hanson has brokered the sale of a two-story, 25,944-square-foot medical office building in the Northern New Jersey community of Fair Lawn. Darren Lizzack and Randy Horning of NAI Hanson represented both the buyer, TYH Acquisitions LLC, and the seller, an entity doing business as 2300 RT 208 LLC, in the transaction. Additional terms of sale were not disclosed.
ITASCA, ILL. — NAI Hiffman has brokered the sale-leaseback of a 251,909-square-foot warehouse in the Chicago suburb of Itasca for $36 million. The property is located at 1455 W. Thorndale Ave., about five miles west of the O’Hare International Airport. Patrick Sullivan and Eric Tresslar of NAI Hiffman represented the seller, Top-Line Furniture, which subsequently entered into a long-term lease for the property. High Street Logistics Properties was the buyer.
HOUSTON — NAI Partners has arranged the sale of an 82,053-square-foot industrial building located at 12218 Cutten Road in northwest Houston. According to LoopNet Inc., the single-tenant building was constructed in 2022. Travis Land and A.J. Williams of NAI Partners represented the seller, an entity doing business as Cutten Houston Investments LP, in the deal. Geoff Perrott and David Buescher of JLL represented the undisclosed buyer.
Amazon recently reconfigured and consolidated its network of warehouses, and many other retailers followed suit. The result? The outlook for industrial real estate, particularly retail warehouses, is now more difficult to interpret. Many retail clients are repositioning their supply chains to help avoid slowdowns and a potential International Warehouse Logistics Association (IWLA) union strike on the West Coast. This change has merged with a corporate need to find additional options for shipping and transport (especially as prices for transportation and industrial rents rise). The demand for industrial space has increased rapidly in less “congested” areas. As economic uncertainty continues, there is a shift towards tertiary markets for industrial real estate. This change provides significant opportunities for industrial investors, says Steve Pastor, VP of global supply chain, and ports/rail logistics/consultant at NAI James E. Hanson, who serves as NAI Global Industrial Council Chair. Investors and developers may be able to take advantage of a pause in a highly competitive field, in tertiary markets that have been traditionally less expensive than major and core markets. Amazon’s Impact News of Amazon’s plans to scale back its acquisition of industrial space (and to sublease its existing property to other retailers) has given some users opportunities …
HOUSTON — NAI Partners has negotiated a 50,995-square-foot industrial lease at 6410 Langfield Road in northwest Houston. According to LoopNet Inc., the property was built in 2015. Travis Land and A.J. Williams of NAI Partners represented the landlord, an entity doing business as HOU IND 2 LLC, in the lease negotiations. Patrick McKiernan and Jason Mashni of First Houston Properties represented the tenant, Legion Piping Fabricators Inc.
What should potential landlords know about leasing space for cell towers or renegotiating their legacy leases? “Landlords need to understand what economic opportunity they have available to them,” says David Moore, CEO and principal at NAI Global Wireless. Involving cell tower lease consultants, especially for existing leases, and considering cell site buyouts are two powerful tools available to cell site landlords today. For decades, Moore explains, property owners have been willing to sign less-than-ideal agreements with carriers and tower companies. Over the years, landlords, thinking that just because these cell tower sites are small and out of the way or because they did not want to turn down “free money,” were willing to sign disadvantageous lease agreements. Landlords often do not understand the impact of signing a lease agreement with a potential term of 30 years (made up of five-year terms), especially when tenants might use leases to constrain certain real estate negotiations (including rights like tenant approval for buyers, rights of first refusal and noncompetition clauses). In many cases, tenants have the unilateral right to terminate their lease without notice, a right about which landlords frequently aren’t aware. Rent escalations, terms and conditions, inflation and more need to be …
GREEN BAY, WIS. — NAI Greywolf has negotiated the sale of two seniors housing communities in Green Bay. Dawn Davis of NAI Greywolf represented the seller. The portfolio included Bishop’s Court Community, a 69-bed assisted living facility with memory care, and Allouez Sunrise Village, which is a 49-unit residential care apartment complex. The combined 125,711-square-foot portfolio is located on the same campus. The buyer and price were not disclosed.
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Which Way is the Retail Pendulum Swinging?
Although the pandemic wreaked havoc on the retail sector in general, the culling of weak concepts has left space for strong retailers to flourish. The retail industry is seeing an explosion in experiential retail, medical/dental space is ubiquitous and non-traditional tenants are jumping at opportunities to secure prime locations. As a result, shopping centers have proven very resilient, says George Macoubray, vice president of retail brokerage with NAI Elliott in Portland, Oregon. “Today’s centers continue to evolve and to address what consumers need in terms of a place for people to congregate and participate in the activities that are important to them.” The entertainment sector was hit hard by the pandemic, he notes. “But now those operators seem to be out looking for locations, and they’re seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. People want to gather. They want to be entertained. They want to go out and do activities. Those kinds of experiences are happening more and more often in shopping centers — and you can’t buy those activities on Amazon.” Exciting new in-person experiences are helping to elevate shopping centers. “There’s an influx of experiential retail. From golf simulator experiences to ping-pong places to axe-throwing activities, …
LOS ANGELES — Happy Place Stages LLC, a full-service creative studio, has purchased a warehouse campus located at 5446-5450 Satsuma Ave. in the North Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles for $14.3 million. The sales price equates to $380 per square foot. Built in 1952 and renovated in 2017, the property features four buildings: a 13,000-square-foot cargo containers that has been convert to creative office space, a 1,400-square-foot office, an 8,000-square-foot warehouse and a 20,000-square-foot warehouse. Adam Comora with NAI Capital’s Investment Services Group represented the buyer in the deal.
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Rising Interest Rates and Inflation to Fuel Change in Property Markets
Beginning in the fourth quarter of 2020, commercial real estate buyers and sellers moved off the sidelines and began fueling an impressive investment sales rebound as many pandemic-related lockdowns and restrictions eased or ended. The rush to purchase hard assets hit its apex a year later when commercial property sales surged to a record $362 billion in the fourth quarter of 2021 alone, according to Real Capital Analytics, a part of MSCI Real Assets that tracks property transactions of $2.5 million or more. The strong market is continuing this year: Deals of $170.8 billion closed in the first quarter, a year-over-year increase of 56 percent, Real Capital reports. Buyers in the first quarter also pushed up prices 17.4 percent over the prior year, according to Real Capital’s Commercial Property Price Indices (CPPI). But given rising interest rates and other recent headwinds, will investors continue to drive robust investment activity and bid up prices? The 10-Year Treasury yield has spiked some 150 basis points to around 3 percent since the beginning of 2022, and fixed 10-year mortgage rates of between 3 percent and 4 percent are up about 100 basis points. For short-term variable loans, the benchmark secured overnight financing rate …