Health-care real estate continues to thrive, and investors can’t get enough of the sector, according to JLL’s Valuation Advisory Group’s inaugural Healthcare Investor Survey and Trends Outlook. Transactions in the sector climbed to $26 billion in 2022, marking an annual… Read More
As commercial real estate investors face a reset in property values, finding off-market deals is becoming increasingly more attractive. Investors expect that they will get a better deal if they don’t have to compete for properties through a bidding process,… Read More
As much as many in CRE, to say nothing of investors in other asset types, would like to think the Federal Reserve will stop the rate increases, the released minutes from the latest Federal Open Market Committee meeting are clear… Read More
Higher interest rates that have become an impediment to transactions in the broader commercial real estate investment sales market are having the opposite effect in the sale-leaseback sector. According to SLB Capital Advisors, the sale-leaseback market was on pace for… Read More
Negative cash flows, high vacancy rates, environmental and geographic concerns and other macroeconomic factors are all risks, and, therefore, reasons why real estate owners may experience operating distress. Furthermore, real estate owners commonly finance the acquisition of properties with debt,… Read More
The fourth quarter marked Burger King’s first full period under its new $400 million “Reclaim the Flame” turnaround plan, and thus far, the strategy appears to be taking hold. Burger King’s U.S. same-store sales rose 5 percent, on top of… Read More
Yum! Brands’ development engine continues to run on all cylinders, delivering a record number of new stores for the second year in a row. The company opened 4,560 gross new units last year, the equivalent of one new restaurant every… Read More
With the announcement of January’s CPI numbers — 0.5% increase in January after a 0.1% increase in December, higher than predicted. That made a 12-month 6.4% inflation rate, which was still down from 6.5% in December, although over expectations. A… Read More
Retail sales rebounded in January amid a pick-up in post-holiday spending. Retail sales in January were up 1.5% from December and increased 4.8% year-over-year, according to the National Retail Federation, whose calculation excludes automobile dealers, gasoline stations and restaurants to… Read More
For decades, many financial advisors have followed a formula for traditional client portfolio allocation which could broadly be described as 60 percent in equities and 40 percent in bonds, otherwise known as the 60-40 model. The rationale was that bonds… Read More