Category: Insights
Category: Insights
Investors continue to seek assets renovated to the highest institutional standards.
Luke Hamagiwa serves as the market leader responsible for carrying out investment objectives throughout the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States on behalf of KBS REIT, pension fund and sovereign wealth fund clients. Within these markets, he is responsible for the execution of strategic business plans for each of the assets within his portfolio along with new acquisition opportunities and joint-venture partnerships.
If you’re particular about the healthfulness, taste and quality of the foods that go into your freezer, then you may be familiar with Red’s All Natural delicious, convenient and clean-label frozen foods. This relatively young specialty brand has been winning over consumers since 2010 when Red’s frozen burritos first debuted to shoppers in New Canaan, Connecticut.
In the wake of what’s transpired over the past two and a half years, workers are seeking out employers who offer flexibility and on-site amenities that support their wellbeing — all while nurturing the personal connections that fuel office culture and camaraderie.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is both the future of commercial real estate (CRE) and a technology that’s already starting to gain users, impact, and money — lots of money. It’s all part of a vast technological transition, one where CRE artificial intelligence will impact markets of every size.
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Last year, Disney released a live-action version of “Pinocchio.” As with the 1940 animated classic, audiences were drawn into the story through the Academy Award-winning song that tells us that when we wish upon a star, “anything your heart desires will come to you.”
Call it a recovery or even a renaissance, but multi-tenant retail has tenaciously and innovatively rebounded to the delight of consumers, operators and investors. Multi-tenant, and its sub-sector, open-air shopping centers, have emerged as a bright spot in the post-COVID retail landscape.
Investment in multifamily commercial real estate (CRE) started off the year with a bang, and the segment appears to be headed for a strong and smooth finish. Trends in multifamily CRE have seen double-digit boosts in rent growth and heightened investor interest. But what’s waiting for this thriving industry the remainder of the year?
Delve into some of the demographic, structural and comparative aspects of the sector to find an answer.
Mention Nashville and your thoughts will likely turn to country music and great barbecue. It’s Music City, Tennessee’s state capital and home to Vanderbilt University. But there’s more: Nashville is a growing office hub and part of a large and thriving metro area.
Being in nature is the ultimate life hack. Although we may not be conscious of it, humans are programmed to respond to nature and to function best when immersed in it. Our innate instinct to connect with nature and other living beings is known as biophilia.
Before the market caps, TED Talks and magazine covers, innovators tend to become the driving force behind breakthroughs that address or disrupt business sectors while capturing our collective imaginations. One such innovation, Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), seeks to disrupt entire industries.
Like most of the commercial real estate (CRE) market, office came under pressure in 2020. Responding to local shelter-in-place health orders, up to 70% of the U.S. workforce was working from home (WFH) in April 2020, transforming once-bustling office buildings into ghost towns. That percentage has decreased to 56% since the beginning of the year, signaling a recovery is underway. The extent of that recovery and what it means for office real estate is still unknown, but there is some speculation.
Texas is the trifecta state, a place with warm weather, a zero-percent state income tax and inexpensive housing. But the “Lone Star State” is more than that: it’s also a major office hub centrally located in the U.S., with Dallas anchoring the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) metro area — where many of the Nation’s largest tech centers are located.
