Scott Miller's Commercial Real Estate Update - May 2014


Calendar of Events


May 1st


FIABCI-USA Seattle Pacific Northwest Council Meeting


Join us and learn about International Real Estate issues, sharing how our members conduct business internationally, marketing properties outside your area, and more!


Time : 10:00am to Noon


Venue : Seattle King County Association of Realtors


Address: 12410 SE 32nd Street, Suite#100, Bellevue WA 98005


 


LIVE: May 7, 2014, at 12:00 pm ET


Real Estate Triple Play: PERE, Finance and Development


What is the current state of limited partner investment activity in Private Equity Real Estate? Where are we in the CRE lending cycle – and where is the market going in the short and long terms? And which markets and asset classes are currently in favor for development?


 


RealShare


STUDENT HOUSING


June 4-5


The Encore Las Vegas


Is online leasing the next must-have tool for property management? And is it clustered cottages or urban infill that's the next design in hot demand? Join us on June 4-5 for RealShare STUDENT HOUSING, and keep up with the contemporary student.


 


RealShare


NEW JERSEY BREAKFAST


May 29


The Newark Club


There are just 10 days left to save!  The early bird rate of $149 expires on April 25, so register today to secure your spot at this morning event that unites the Garden State's top players. Network with the best and return to your desk before lunch with new business leads.


 


Local


 


There’s little new office space for rent in Ballard, and a developer aims to change that


A Seattle company called Henbart Limited Liability Co. plans to capitalize on the shortage of new office space in Ballard with its first ground-up development: a two-building project across the street from Ballard Commons Park.


 


Apartment developer gobbles up a slice of Seattle’s Capitol Hill


One of the nation’s largest owners of apartments on Tuesday bought the Capitol Hill property where longtime Seattle restaurant Piecora’s Pizza operates.


 


Who sucked up the office space in Seattle? Not Amazon (really)


Tenants leased nearly 250,000 square feet of additional office space in downtown Seattle during the first three months of 2014, and surprisingly, Amazon.com was not among them.


 


Beacon moving ahead with 2nd office tower in Bellevue


A new city report states that Beacon Capital Partners is moving ahead with the second of two office towers it's planning in downtown Bellevue.


 


Uff da! 500,000 square feet of office space planned for Ballard


C.D. Stimson Co. announced plans Tuesday for a 500,000-square-foot office campus to be built along the Lake Washington Ship Canal in Seattle's Ballard neighborhood.


 


Big property in downtown Everett sells. What's next?


Skotdal Real Estate, one of Everett's most active real estate developers, is the new owner of two blocks on the west edge of the city's downtown.


 


Seattle Builder Aims Low


As the cost of rental housing shoots up across the country, so has the need for affordable housing. Yet most new apartment buildings are geared to the higher end of the market; building and operating affordable housing, many developers argue, isn't profitable.


 


Seattle Industrial: Consistent and Steady


SEATTLE—The big sigh of relief heard in the Seattle region occurred when the Boeing Machinists approved their new contract which secured the decision to build the 777X in Everett.


 


Beacon seeks to cash in on Bellevue project before it's built


Beacon Capital Partners has offered for sale a large development site in downtown Bellevue, according to a trade publication called Real Estate Alert.


 


On the cannabis cash trail: The story of one real estate prospector


Real estate executive Llorn Kylo is a modern-day prospector whose experience shows how white-hot the business of legal marijuana is.


 


'Pineapple express' bringing $70 million hotel to downtown Seattle


Pineapple Hospitality Co. President Michelle Barnet said Thursday that she plans to develop a hotel tower at Second Avenue and Virginia Street.


 


Hedreen's mega hotel in downtown Seattle not quite as mega


Seattle real estate developer R.C. Hedreen & Co. still wants to build a large hotel downtown. But given the uncertainty of the city's approval process, Hedreen has a backup plan: a smaller hotel.


 


Developers jockey for position at Capitol Hill light rail station


One of Seattle's most alluring real estate development opportunities has no shortage of suitors.


 


Apartment developer onboard for new project by Seattle's Othello light rail station


Sound Transit officials on Tuesday said they've selected Mercy Housing Northwest to build 108 apartments near the Othello light rail station in Southeast Seattle.


 


Group seeks property-tax hike to preserve Seattle bus routes


An initiative to raise Seattle property taxes will be filed this week to pay for bus service within the city, after King County voters rejected a ballot measure for transit and roads


 



 


The U.S. office market is showing signs of picking up steam, with businesses adding space in the first quarter at the fastest pace since 2007, according to a report from real-estate data firm Reis Inc.

 


For more than a year, Blackstone Group BX -1.04% LP has been selling Boston-area office buildings one-by-one. Now the private-equity giant is considering putting a large block of these properties on the market.

 


The last vestige of the flophouses that once dotted Times Square is about to go the way of the porn shops and crime that made the area infamous.

 


In January, New York real-estate mogul Gary Barnett took control of a much-coveted Manhattan office building portfolio that had been the subject of a yearslong dispute between two brothers.

 


LOS ANGELES—Jobs are the major driver of retail activity, according to Steve Jaffe, EVP of BH Properties. In this exclusive video, Jaffe gives a unwraps the retail market and gives a forecast for the upcoming year, telling L.A. reporter Kelsi Maree Borland:

 


LONG BEACH, CA—According to Parallel Capital Partners, office properties may be the next big investment wave.

 


LINCOLNSHIRE, IL—The post-recessionary stars are aligning and the industrial market is back. So says Mark Goode, SIOR, a principal at locally based Venture One Real Estate LLC.

 


Activists in the world of historic preservation have long staked a claim to rescuing architecturally important train stations, government buildings and private estates. Many now are shifting their focus to saving vestiges of America's industrial past, mainly old mills and factories.

 


Banks are boosting their lending to businesses, providing fuel for companies to increase spending on workers and equipment as the economy improves.

 


Sonic Corp. SONC -0.02% is regaining its appetite for expansion, with ambitious plans to open more of its 1950s-style carhop restaurants in new parts of the country as it seeks to narrow the gap with rival burger chains.

 


WALNUT CREEK, CA—A number of today’s most successful commercial real estate organizations were started by entrepreneurial individuals in brokerage, development, private real estate equity and advisory businesses.

 


Target Logistics, a Boston-based builder and operator of dormitory-style housing, recently landed a nearly $30 million contract to provide lodging for hundreds of oil-field workers in North Dakota over the next three years.

 


SAN FRANCISCO—Locally based Prologis Inc. recently reported results for the first quarter 2014, showing that operating results had exceeded the company’s prior forecast.

 


A Boston developer and a veteran of Four Seasons Hotel & Resorts are teaming up to convert one of the first Howard Johnson motels into a music-themed hotel near Fenway Park.

 


Tishman Speyer has paid $438 million for a development site on Manhattan's far West Side in the latest sign of a land rush that has pushed the value of New York properties into the stratosphere.

 


 


Last year, when Emaar Properties put a new Dubai residential project on the market, demand was so intense that police eventually had to intervene to control the chaos outside the company's offices.

 


About 15 miles from the Burj Khalifa on the edge of the Arabian desert is a growing housing and retail community that would look more at home in Beijing than Dubai: Stores and restaurants have Chinese signs and a huge dragon sculpture adorns the Dragon Mart shopping mall.

 


Developers are rushing to Qatar, where an unprecedented building boom is under way to prepare for soccer's World Cup in 2022 and meet the emir's drive to modernize the tiny but energy-rich land.

 


CHANGZHOU, China— Wu Xuesong, a professor in this city on the Yangtze, says he doubled his money on an apartment he bought as an investment some years back and is ahead on a second.

 


PALMA, Mozambique—When Enrique Nieto arrived here in the searing heat eight months ago, there was one communal water tap and no paved roads. Now the Spanish businessman is about to open the village's first hotel.

 


BERLIN—Developers are moving forward with plans for unusually tall apartment buildings in this low-slung city in response to demand for housing that is greatly exceeding supply.

 


SHANGHAI—For years, Chinese property has been a sure bet for savvy investors looking to ride the country's economic surge.

 


SEOUL—A poster featuring a 150-story, 2,181-foot-tall skyscraper still hangs on the wall of Ahn Hyun-Hee's small real-estate agency in Seoul. Titled "Dream Hub," the drawing depicts an imagined 138-acre cityscape resting on the northern bank of Seoul's Han River.

 

Distressed

 


The time it takes for banks to complete a foreclosure on a property has ticked up 20 percent in the first quarter compared to year-ago levels, according to RealtyTrac's latest foreclosure report. The average time it takes to complete a foreclosure is 572 days nationwide, up from 477 days in the first quarter of 2013.

 


After spending more than $50 billion to resolve numerous legal woes stemming from the financial crisis, Bank of America Corp. BAC +0.25% had more bad news for shareholders Wednesday: The bleeding isn't over.

 

 

MultiFamily

 


Apartment landlords continued to push through hefty rent increases at the start of the year, although the pace of the rises was slightly weaker.

 


SAN FRANCISCO—L+M Development Partners has completed the second phase of Candlestick Heights, an 11-building, energy-efficient affordable-living development in the Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood here

 


NEW YORK CITY—A trio of industry leaders discussed what areas are ‘hot’, which spots appear poised for such status and what brings a neighborhood its cache during a REBNY Members lunch in Midtown earlier this week.

 


LOS ANGELES—Knowing who your tenants are going to be as a developer is key to success. So said Dean Zander, senior partner at Hendricks-Berkadia. And according to Zander, there is a new generation of tenants out there … “the MILF generation.”

 


INLAND EMPIRE, CA—The Inland Empire market, comprised of Riverside and San Bernardino counties, went through a significant downturn during the recession that is only now starting to see real signs of recovery. So says Praedium Group’s Asim Hamid.

 


Fannie Mae issued approximately $3.5 billion of multifamily mortgage-backed securities (MBS) in the first quarter of 2014, the company said in a press release Monday. The securities are backed by new multifamily loans delivered by the company's lenders.

 


VANCOUVER, B.C.—Panelists at ULI Spring conference look at some of the demographic trends that add value—influenced by the Generation Y and Baby Boomer cohorts.

 


SEATTLE—The National Association of Realtors may be reporting that growth in home prices—including for-sale apartments along with single-family houses

 



 


Real-Estate Stocks Put 2013 Behind Them


Real-estate stocks are outperforming the broader stock market again, reversing a tumultuous period when the shares were uncommon laggards.


 


Health-Care REITs Get Back on Their Feet


Companies that own health-care facilities such as clinics and nursing homes, once viewed as one of the safest and most dependable sources of real-estate income, were spurned last year by investors.


 


Schorsch: ‘Tomorrow’s Healthcare REIT, Today’


NEW YORK CITY—It’s a good time for an established, but still young, healthcare REIT to begin trading, and this is what the three-year-old American Realty Capital Healthcare Trust has done.


 


Why US REITs Flock to Maryland


ANNAPOLIS—Earlier this week Reven Housing REIT announced it was no longer a Colorado company. It had become, like so many other REITs before it, a Maryland corporation.


 


Though Optimistic, REIT Investors Note Needed Changes


NEW YORK CITY—While their outlook on REITs was decidedly bullish, industry luminaries who participated in panel discussions during the annual NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate conference,


 


Vornado Plans Shopping Center Spinoff


NEW YORK CITY—Vornado Realty Trust said late Friday afternoon that it planned to spin off its shopping center business into a separate, publicly traded REIT.


 


New York REIT Starts Fast


For the past year, Nicholas Schorsch, one of the country's most active real-estate investors, has been snapping up marquee New York commercial properties in the hope that Wall Street would bestow on them a rich valuation.


 


REIT Ruling Bodes Well for Converts


News that advertising company CBS Outdoor Americas Inc., CBSO -1.07% has received a green light from the Internal Revenue Service to convert into a real-estate investment trust is a positive sign for other companies awaiting similar rulings.


 


REIT’s $96M Buy Pushes Total Above $320M


IRVINE, CA—Locally based Griffin Capital Corp.'s acquisition, on behalf of Griffin Capital Essential Asset REIT Inc., of the 249,409-square-foot Wyndham Worldwide corporate headquarters facility in Parsippany, NJ,


 


Ventas Marks ‘Another Superior Quarter’ of Growth


CHICAGO—First-quarter funds from operations for Ventas Inc. increased 7% year over year to $323.4 million while normalized FFO was $309.8 million, a 5% gain Y-O-Y, the healthcare REIT said Friday.


 


Nonbank Lenders Step Into a Void


When Los Angeles developer Jeff Worthe first searched for a loan to finance his purchase of the empty 32-story office building Tower Burbank north of Los Angeles, banks balked at offering large mortgages.


 


 


LOS ANGELES—According to Partner Engineering and Science president Joe Derhake, Dodd Frank and increased regulatory scrutiny may mean that banks will be required to order environmental site assessments in the same way they order an appraisal. In this exclusive video, Derhake tells GlobeSt.com reporter Kelsi Maree Borland:

 


NEWPORT BEACH, CA—A full 57% of women in the commercial real estate industry are actively involved in job search, GlobeSt.com has learned exclusively.

 


LOS ANGELES—It's only sunshine and rainbows in the capital markets world, according to experts on CBRE’s Real Estate 360 in 60 web forecast. CBRE brokers Kevin Shannon, Val Achtemeier and Darla Longo agreed that there is still an abundance of equity, debt and foreign capital in the market and fundamentals are very strong.

 


LOCUST GROVE, Ga.— Home Depot Inc. HD -0.39% 's newest location is 10 times bigger than its average store, stocks three times more items and has no customers.

 


SAN DIEGO— “Create complete communities” was the key takeaway at the Urban Land Institute San Diego/Tijuana’s April Breakfast—The Future Look of Master Planned Communities.

 


IRVINE, CA—The interest level among owner-users for financing acquisitions via SBA 504 is on the rise, Jennifer Davis, SVP business development for locally based TMC Financing,

 


TAMPA, FL—Self-storage may not be trading at the velocity of 2006, but it’s still trading. Marcus & Millichap is seeing its fair share of the deals but others have their eyes wide open to the opportunity.

 


NEW YORK CITY—For decades, real estate investors have utilized the 1031 tax free exchange to reinvest sale proceeds for like-kind property, therefore deferring the capital gains tax due

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