Orion leveraged its deep experience and track record of returns to close $350 million in deals in 2018. Among the firm’s transactions last year was a $100 million fund deployed to purchase 68 triple-net-lease properties, including a portfolio of 56 Ruby Tuesday restaurants and another portfolio of 12 KFCs. In […]
Cities in Texas, North Carolina and Florida are among the nation’s 10 best in terms of future growth potential and liquidity, according to the Urban Land Institute’s annual report on Emerging Trends in Real Estate. Dallas/Fort Worth took the number one spot on the highly regarded list, which is based […]
In an effort to gain a larger slice of consumers’ budgets, many quick-serve restaurant (QSR) chains are accelerating the use of technology to improve the consumer dining experience. Brands including Dunkin, Starbucks and Subway have long offered consumers time-saving order-ahead capabilities via their own mobile apps while others, including Panera […]
With population trends as a primary driver of commercial real estate, it appears that Florida will continue to generate high-growth in 2019, thanks, in part, the new tax law. U.S. migration to Florida has always been fueled, at least in part, by its lack of a state income tax. This […]
According to Real Capital Analytics (RCA), worldwide commercial real estate sales in 2018 increase by 15 percent year-over-year, reaching the second-highest level since the global financial crisis. Some of the biggest gains came from the U.S., the world’s largest market, which helped improve global acquisitions of income-producing property by 3 […]
The wild ride of the equity markets during the second half of 2018 has many investors asking if the economy’s extended period of expansion is coming to an end. In response, many investors are pulling their money out of the public markets and putting it into the relative safety of […]
Online and brick-and-mortar holiday retail sales fell 1.2 percent short of expectations in December after experiencing more than 5 percent year-over-year growth in October and November. Despite this dismal data, 2018 holiday sales actual grew 2.9 percent over the same period in 2017. What happened to hamper holiday sales? Following […]
Under U.S. tax laws, commercial real estate (CRE) is generally depreciable over a 39-year period, or 27.5 years for residential rental buildings. A professionally prepared cost segregation study dissects real property, such as a building, into multiple smaller parts and assigns a shorter recovery period to each separate component can […]
Many big-box retailers, including Walmart, Target, Nordstrom and Kohls, are following their online competitors to establish small footprint brick-and-mortar stores in more locations that reach consumers in dense urban areas. By downsizing inventory in these locations, retailers are able to reduce their real estate footprints and open more mini stores […]
According to the National Retail Federal, there was a record 65 percent increase in buy-online, pick-up-in-store sales during the 2018 Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday shopping weekend. Judging by these results, it is apparent that brick-and-mortar stores continue to play a vital role in consumers’ retail shopping habits. While the internet […]
Posted on April 10, 2019