Scott Miller's Commercial Real Estate Update - October 2014

Calendar of Events

ICSC    

10/1/2014 TBD 

San Diego, CA

 


NAIOP-WA       

10/4/2014 7:30AM         

Seattle, WA

 


NAIOP 

10/7/2014 TBD 

San Diego, CA

 


As an industry veteran, look for sound advice and meaningful discussion when Howard speaks at RealShare NEW YORK on October 9 at the Roosevelt Hotel

 


DATE:

October 15-16, 2014

LOCATION:

Westin Bonaventure

404 S Figueroa St

Los Angeles, CA 90071

 


The CCIM Institute, the premier provider of commercial real estate education, has teamed up with GlobeSt.com for CCIM Thrive, Oct. 21–22 at the Westin Bonaventure in Los Angeles. Register to join our national audience of real estate professionals looking to implement best business practices in an effort to thrive in an ever competitive marketplace.

 


October 30, 2014 -- Seattle, WA

The Seminar Group is holding its third annual Easements in Washington conference Oct. 30 at the Washington State Convention Center. The all-day session will cover new types of easements being sought by government, special valuation issues, and how to protect clients and preserve property rights. Michael A. Nesteroff of Lane Powell and Kinnon W. Williams of Inslee Best Doezie & Ryder are the program co-chairs.

 


Nov 4-5, 2014

The Viceroy Miami

We are all busy gearing up for the fall, so let us make things easy for you. Register now for RealShare INDUSTRIAL and take advantage of RealShare’s room block at the Viceroy Miami. Stay with the attendees from across the country and spend more time networking with the sector’s elite.

 


Local


 



The owner of some land next to Microsoft's headquarters has plans to build a dual-brand hotel.

 


As Brooks Sports gears up to move into its new Seattle headquarters, project developer Skanska USA has decided to sell the new building in the Fremont neighborhood.

 


There's a reason that Bellevue is buzzing about Jia Lin Niu. She's the new owner of a big downtown high-rise development site and yet few people know much about her.

 


The exhibit du jour for how hot Seattle's apartment investment market is can be found at 1100 University St., where a 52-year-old high-rise sold for $74 million.

 


It seems improbable, but a touch of San Francisco retail is coming to downtown Everett at a new farmers' market and apartment project that's now under construction.

 


KING 5’s owner is close to signing a long-term lease that would move the television station’s headquarters from South Lake Union to the Sodo neighborhood across from Safeco Field, say real-estate sources.

 


Around 600 new apartment units are opening or under construction at the foot of Stone Way North in Seattle's Fremont area, and many more have opened up and down the corridor

 


A group of Chinese real estate developers that is investing heavily in downtown Bellevue has a new target: Kirkland's "gold coast."

 


You'd think that with all the new apartment units coming online in Seattle, rents would fall as vacancy rates rise.

 


Morgan Stanley Bank has acquired an ownership stake in the Bank of America Fifth Avenue Plaza high-rise in downtown Seattle by lending Hines, the property owner, $176.1 million, according to a document filed Thursday afternoon with King County.

 


Equity Residential officials on Tuesday said they're starting construction of a 40-story luxury apartment tower in downtown Seattle at 204 Pine St.

 

Stacked Savings in Seattle


SEATTLE—In GlobeSt.com’s ongoing coverage of the upcoming NAHB Multifamily Pillars of the Industry Awards Competition, we are profiling selected finalists in the weeks running up to the Awards ceremony.

 


 


California commercial-property brokers are coming under the magnifying glass in California.

 


Apartment landlords have been the envy of the real-estate world in recent years, as strong demand has pushed down vacancies and lifted rent levels.

 


IRVINE, CA—Medical offices are popping up in some fairly non-traditional places these days. A local news source reports that the Irvine Co.

 


Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. continues to sell prime California land left over from its ill-fated partnership with SunCal during the boom years.

 


Fifteen years after shutting its doors to professional sports, Houston's cavernous Astrodome is proving surprisingly resilient in a city where the desire for development typically outweighs nostalgia and preservation.

 


CLEVELAND—In August, Lee & Associates continued its national expansion by opening an office in Cleveland, the company’s first in Ohio,

 


Faena District, the massive $1 billion hotel, retail and condo project under way in Miami Beach, has hired two top New York hotel executives as the luxury development gets ready to launch into an increasingly competitive hospitality market

 


AUSTIN, Texas—Even with nearly 750,000 square feet of office space under construction in downtown Austin, the area's occupancy rate is poised to increase under intense demand from tenants in a variety of industries.

 


InterContinental Hotels Group IHG.LN -0.63% PLC said it won the rights to manage a 900-room hotel atop the Wilshire Grand Center in Los Angeles, a $1.1 billion development that would be the tallest U.S. building west of the Mississippi River when the facility opens in 2017.

 


SAN DIEGO—Retail is back and the market is ready.  Corporate tenants are expanding, franchise tenants are active, and there is strong demand from both investors and tenants for quality retail space.

 


LOS ANGELES—Retail prices are reaching historical heights, and above historical prices in some markets, according to Wilson Retail Group SVP Geoff Tranchina. Wilson Retail Group will be sharing their market knowledge at the ICSCWestern Division Conference this week.

 


TULSA, OK—Leaders of all associations seem to struggle to achieve a difficult balance: that of launching far-seeing goals while serving for only a year.

 


 


Small Chinese builders are following their larger brethren into the U.S., betting that the recovering American housing sector will help them expand as China struggles with its cooling market

 


As Greece attempts to climb out of its six-year recession, the real-estate market is looking to the poster boy of the country's privatization process: Athens's long-disused airport, Hellinikon.

 


PORTO HELI, Greece—For 20 years, the building had been an empty eyesore on the shores of this picturesque bay. Unable to keep up with the changing times, the 1970s-era hotel went bust, was seized by creditors, and eventually shut its doors in the mid-1990s.

 


ATHENS—Since the European debt crisis erupted in 2009, foreign investors have mostly ignored Greek real estate even as they have jumped back into Spain, Italy and Ireland.

 

Impact Growth REIT set to debut


 The Impact Growth Real Estate Investment Trust, the first REIT in Thailand worth 20 billion baht, is ready to launch its initial offering next week and begin trading on Oct 1. 


 


Narayana Murthy invests in realty, Azim Premji to follow suit


BANGALORE: Property has always been a major investment avenue of the rich. Now, some of the people one would expect to focus on enterprising ventures are also looking at rent-yielding property.


 


European REITs Are on a Tear


Europe was slow to embrace real-estate investment trusts, but a record surge in fundraising is providing a boost to the Continent's recovering commercial-property market.


 


Amazon.com Inc. is beefing up its presence in London by building a new 15-story office tower in the city.

 


CLARK FREEPORT ZONE, Philippines—On land that once belonged to the largest American military base outside the U.S., Arnel Casanova envisages not just a new city, but a new type of city for the Philippines.

 


LOS ANGELES—Foreign investors are specifically looking at high-profile development sites, according to Laurie Lustig-Bower, EVP at CBRE.

 

MultiFamily

 


ORANGE COUNTY, CA—Multifamily is still the preferred asset class for investors, according to Alexa Mizrahi, a loan originator at Lone Oak Fund. In this exclusive video, Mizrahi tells reporter Kelsi Maree Borland about:

 


NEW YORK CITY—The United States Senate has passed H.R.2600: the Interstate Land Sales Disclosure Act Update of 2013.

 


TAMPA, FL—Multifamily may be the darling of the commercial real estate industry in Florida, but that doesn’t mean every apartment asset gets snapped up in a hurry.

 


Around 600 new apartment units are opening or under construction at the foot of Stone Way North in Seattle's Fremont area, and many more have opened up and down the corridor

 


NEW YORK CITY—The trend toward slower gains in home pricing continues, with S&P Dow Jones Indices reporting Tuesday that 19 of the 20 cities in the S&P/Case-Shiller 20-City Composite saw lower annual returns in July.

 


DALLAS—US multifamily continues to gain strength—more than expected, in fact. In a report provided exclusively to GlobeSt.com, Dallas-based Axiometrics says annualized rent growth nationally reached 4.0%

 


CALABASAS, CA—A combination of rising home prices, increased job creation and a large baby boomer population heading into retirement supports improved occupancy in manufactured home communities.

 


DALLAS—Having already declared 2014 to be the “Year of the Apartment,” locally based Axiometrics now says the sector has gone one better,

 

Stacked Savings in Seattle


SEATTLE—In GlobeSt.com’s ongoing coverage of the upcoming NAHB Multifamily Pillars of the Industry Awards Competition, we are profiling selected finalists in the weeks running up to the Awards ceremony.



 


Why Will This New Net Lease REIT Be A Game Changer?


A few weeks ago, I wrote an article that detailed the defensive dividend attributes that are so appealing for many REIT investors.


 


Portnoys Strike Deal for Cole REIT


In March, after a contentious proxy battle, Barry and Adam Portnoy, a father-and-son management team, lost control of CommonWealth REIT, EQC +0.44% the crown jewel of a family-run commercial real-estate empire valued at more than $20 billion


 


Impact Growth REIT set to debut


 The Impact Growth Real Estate Investment Trust, the first REIT in Thailand worth 20 billion baht, is ready to launch its initial offering next week and begin trading on Oct 1. 


 


Why I Consider Extra Space The 'Mac-Daddy' Of Self-Storage


In a previous article, I explained the reasons for initiating an entry position in Extra Space Storage (NYSE:EXR). I summarized my BUY call as follows:


 


Nippon Prologis REIT Prices New Investment Units


SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 8, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Prologis, Inc. PLD, +0.02% the global leader in industrial real estate, today announced that Japanese real estate investment trust Nippon Prologis REIT, Inc. (NPR) priced new investment units at 250,096 Japanese yen per unit


 



BTB Real Estate Investment Trust (OTC:BTBIF) is a tiny Canadian REIT (approx. C$550 million in assets) that focuses on commercial, industrial and office properties in the Quebec region - its portfolio of properties is predominantly situated in and around the metropolitan areas of Montreal, Quebec City and Ottawa.

 


Like inversions by U.S. corporations that move their legal domicile outside the United States, conversions by U.S. corporations to real estate investment trusts are fundamental restructurings that provide major tax benefits.

 


When Duke Realty Corp. DRE -0.58% closed on the sale of its stake in a mixed-use office tower in Atlanta's tony Buckhead district in late June, company executives beamed to investors about having eked a profit out of a building that had been troubled by high vacancy during the downturn.

 


 


CHICAGO—The market for net-lease products has gotten so hot in the US that investors have begun to seriously compete with one another for properties that host non-investment grade tenants

 


DANA POINT, CA—“Finance and healthcare has been a largely male-dominated industry in the past, but we’ve turned a corner with more women CEOs and operators now making key decisions

 


LOS ANGELES—Multifamily may remain the belle of the ball, but it’s getting some serious competition.

 


CHICAGO— The number of statewide home sales dipped again last month, but median prices also rose again, according to data from the Illinois Association of REALTORS®.

 


LOS ANGELES—Freddie Mac’s Fast Track Early Rate-Lock program has an advantage over banks because it can lock in a rate for a longer period of time, according to Allan Freedman,

 

RE Education

 


October 30, 2014 -- Seattle, WA

The Seminar Group is holding its third annual Easements in Washington conference Oct. 30 at the Washington State Convention Center. The all-day session will cover new types of easements being sought by government, special valuation issues, and how to protect clients and preserve property rights. Michael A. Nesteroff of Lane Powell and Kinnon W. Williams of Inslee Best Doezie & Ryder are the program co-chairs.

1 comment:

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