California investor Judah Hertz is buying office buildings
After a four-year hiatus on the sidelines, California investor Judah Hertz is buying office buildings in small cities with some of the highest vacancies and lowest demand in the country. That probably means more torment for other landlords in these markets.
Attractive yields are increasingly luring investors like Mr. Hertz further afield to office markets in smaller cities and suburban areas. During most of the downturn, investors have focused on major cities like New York and Washington, but this has driven prices up and yields down, to under 5% in some cases.
"I should be in a very competitive situation," Mr. Hertz says.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203735304577166670998014922.html
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Buyers Wary of Building Bubble
From WSJ.com
Some of the nation's largest pension funds are starting to back away from trophy properties in the most expensive real-estate markets over concerns a new bubble is inflating.
After property prices crashed during the financial crisis, pension funds—among the biggest investors in commercial real estate—turned their investment strategies away from risky speculative projects and toward properties considered "core," well-leased buildings that are seen as low risk due to their stable income, in cities such as New York, Washington and San Francisco.
Monday, August 15, 2011
Investors Have Been Moving Into Secondary Markets
Investors have been moving into secondary markets such as Dallas and Minneapolis amid growing confidence in the recovery and soaring prices that drove down yields on office buildings, shopping malls and apartments in prime cities including New York, San Francisco and Washington.
The trend may be cut short. Turmoil in financial markets over the past three weeks -- triggered by concern that Spain and Italy will struggle to pay off their debts, signs that the U.S. will remain mired in sluggish growth through next year and Standard & Poor’s downgrade of the U.S. credit rating -- may send buyers back to prime cities and push prices even higher, as long as the economy doesn’t deteriorate so much that trophy properties suffer.
The trend may be cut short. Turmoil in financial markets over the past three weeks -- triggered by concern that Spain and Italy will struggle to pay off their debts, signs that the U.S. will remain mired in sluggish growth through next year and Standard & Poor’s downgrade of the U.S. credit rating -- may send buyers back to prime cities and push prices even higher, as long as the economy doesn’t deteriorate so much that trophy properties suffer.
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Investors willing to Step Into Distressed Situations
Investors willing to step into distressed situations with fresh capital are seeing a surge in business now that lenders are showing a greater willingness to rework deals.
Take the case of Mesa West Capital. The Los Angeles-based private lender this year has originated about $600 million in loans, already topping its previous record year in 2007, when its volume hit $498 million. The firm is on pace to hit $1 billion by the end of December, according to Jeff Friedman, the company's co-founder and co-chief executive.
Part of the new business comes from rising sales volume in the commercial-real-estate market.
http://online.wsj.com
Take the case of Mesa West Capital. The Los Angeles-based private lender this year has originated about $600 million in loans, already topping its previous record year in 2007, when its volume hit $498 million. The firm is on pace to hit $1 billion by the end of December, according to Jeff Friedman, the company's co-founder and co-chief executive.
Part of the new business comes from rising sales volume in the commercial-real-estate market.
http://online.wsj.com
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Investors Look to Expand Retail Portfolios
Big institutional investors stepping back into property markets since the financial crisis largely have sought the security of income-generating assets such as shopping centers. Office buildings still account for the largest share of commercial-property investment, but many investors have reduced their exposure to these properties, which have suffered from vacancies during the recession.
Allianz Real Estate, a unit of German insurer Allianz SE, is telling investors in roadshows that it plans to invest about €11 billion ($15 billion) in European property, aiming to take its portfolio to €30 billion. Allianz Real Estate, which is looking for yields of between 5% and 6%, wants to have about 45% of its portfolio in offices, 25% in retail and 15% in residential. Offices account for 63% of Allianz's portfolio, residential is 20%, and retail is about 17%, according to Allianz Real Estate.
http://online.wsj.com
Allianz Real Estate, a unit of German insurer Allianz SE, is telling investors in roadshows that it plans to invest about €11 billion ($15 billion) in European property, aiming to take its portfolio to €30 billion. Allianz Real Estate, which is looking for yields of between 5% and 6%, wants to have about 45% of its portfolio in offices, 25% in retail and 15% in residential. Offices account for 63% of Allianz's portfolio, residential is 20%, and retail is about 17%, according to Allianz Real Estate.
http://online.wsj.com
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Blackstone Bets on Industrial Property
Net lease market News
Blackstone bets big on industrial property rebound
In six months, the private equity firm's real estate arm, Blackstone Real Estate Advisors, has amassed a portfolio of 275 industrial properties, spanning about 45 million square feet.
It might more than triple its holdings to about 150 million square feet, according to an industry source with knowledge of the plans, but who is not authorized to talk about them.
These warehouses and distribution facilities -- sometimes as large as 17 U.S. football fields -- sit beside highways, near airports and shipping ports throughout the United States. The hulking concrete shells are stuffed with televisions, shampoo, soft drinks and other goods headed for stores. Tenants include shippers, manufacturers and retailers.
"Industrial real estate in the private market has been cheaper than other property sectors," said Green Street Advisors analyst Steven Frankel. "Industrial last year had not recovered at nearly that same pace as apartments, or hotels or the majority of other sectors. Pricing looked very attractive on a relative basis."
SOURCES:http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE70O68920110125
Net Lease Industrial Assets it has been estimated that as much as $97 billion will be invested in the US commercial market by global investors in 2011. DTZ, a British-based real estate services firm, stated this represents a 54% increase from their December 2009 prediction. In short, growing confidence in real estate investment will pull investors off the bench – leaving the industrial sector poised to benefit. However, investors scrambling to find viable and profitable net lease investments are running into a short term problem. There is a lack of both current supply and new industrial construction in the pipeline.
Investors want quality, top rated tenants in the strongest urban markets. These investments are increasingly rare. However, “Mission Critical” net lease industrial assets are available - investors may just need to rethink their criteria. These properties often have existing permitted industrial uses, are located in and around quality commercial markets, and provide goods and services unique to their businesses. The real values of these investments are not only the tenant, or even the property, but the permitted use so critical to the nature of the business. Sellers are willing to sign long-term leases at higher returns than current market rates because these properties are so critical. Increasingly, investors are overlooking traditional analytics and considering these investments. With intelligent investment they can provide a highly profitable return.
Blackstone bets big on industrial property rebound
In six months, the private equity firm's real estate arm, Blackstone Real Estate Advisors, has amassed a portfolio of 275 industrial properties, spanning about 45 million square feet.
It might more than triple its holdings to about 150 million square feet, according to an industry source with knowledge of the plans, but who is not authorized to talk about them.
These warehouses and distribution facilities -- sometimes as large as 17 U.S. football fields -- sit beside highways, near airports and shipping ports throughout the United States. The hulking concrete shells are stuffed with televisions, shampoo, soft drinks and other goods headed for stores. Tenants include shippers, manufacturers and retailers.
"Industrial real estate in the private market has been cheaper than other property sectors," said Green Street Advisors analyst Steven Frankel. "Industrial last year had not recovered at nearly that same pace as apartments, or hotels or the majority of other sectors. Pricing looked very attractive on a relative basis."
SOURCES:http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE70O68920110125
Net Lease Industrial Assets it has been estimated that as much as $97 billion will be invested in the US commercial market by global investors in 2011. DTZ, a British-based real estate services firm, stated this represents a 54% increase from their December 2009 prediction. In short, growing confidence in real estate investment will pull investors off the bench – leaving the industrial sector poised to benefit. However, investors scrambling to find viable and profitable net lease investments are running into a short term problem. There is a lack of both current supply and new industrial construction in the pipeline.
Investors want quality, top rated tenants in the strongest urban markets. These investments are increasingly rare. However, “Mission Critical” net lease industrial assets are available - investors may just need to rethink their criteria. These properties often have existing permitted industrial uses, are located in and around quality commercial markets, and provide goods and services unique to their businesses. The real values of these investments are not only the tenant, or even the property, but the permitted use so critical to the nature of the business. Sellers are willing to sign long-term leases at higher returns than current market rates because these properties are so critical. Increasingly, investors are overlooking traditional analytics and considering these investments. With intelligent investment they can provide a highly profitable return.
How to Beat the Taxman
How to Beat the Taxman don't pay any more than you have to James Brennan on 1031 Exchanges
WHAT ARE CLIENT’S CONSIDERATIONS WHEN SELECTING AN ENTITY TYPE TO HOLD TITLE TO REAL ESTATE?
BRENNAN:
Clients unfortunately default to an LLC for entity choice simply because of asset protection. However, when co-investing a Joint Member LLC creates exit strategy concerns as it can hamper one investor’s ability to properly structure a like-kind exchange. Clients need to carefully examine the structure that will house their real estate investment and contemplate the next investment assuming this investment is profitable.
WHAT TYPE OF STRUCTURING DO YOU SEE AT THE ACQUISITION AND DISPOSITION STAGES?
BRENNAN:
Often as a function of how real estate syndications are marketed, most General Partners or Developers use a GP/ LP approach to structuring the laddered returns both for limited partners and general partners. This structure is fine for economics and often yields the intended result with a properly drafted operating agreement. However, partnership interests are not eligible for exchange, so limited partners need to focus on real estate interests that are "deed-able" to make the interest conducive to like-kind exchange treatment.
Clients do not need to seek out a commercially packaged Tenant-in-Common deal to achieve these results, clients simply have to select a well-versed Sponsor and a CPA/tax attorney that can craft a win-win structure for both the limited partners and the general partner.
WHAT TYPE OF ESTATE PLANNING TECHNIQUES DO YOU SEE UTILIZED?
BRENNAN:
The $5 million and up net worth set gravitates mostly to a living trust at first as "Family Stewards" are looking to make managing assets easy for heirs, so a Revocable Living Trust gives the comfort that properties will funnel to the right place via contract and the Grantors (current property owners) do not have to sacrifice control of the assets currently.
In my opinion, clients do not pay adequate attention to estate taxes and how assets are titled. Real estate investors particularly tend to have a desire to control their investments; however, certain investments, such as triple net leases, lend themselves to estate planning and passivity.
Clients should really try to plan for both capital gains events and estate events. Unfortunately too much attention is put on deductions, current income, and economics of deals; however, clients face 25-50% in capital gains taxes upon disposition and upwards of 45-55% in estate taxes. This level of taxation will erode a substantial amount of the cash you will net from an investment when attempting to build real wealth.
WHAT PROPERTY TYPES ARE BEING SWAPPED?
BRENNAN:
Right now institutional investors and traditional buy-and-hold investors believe the market is improving- thus, why "sell in a soft market?". However, clients with low-basis property that have certain events (death, retirement, financial distress) are opting to conduct like-kind exchanges.
An example would be an apartment building investor retiring to Florida and swapping out of an Arlington Apartment building and buying a Walgreens NNN lease as replacement property. The client gets cashflow without the "toilets, tenants, and trash".
clik here for more information
www.1031esgroup.com
WHAT ARE CLIENT’S CONSIDERATIONS WHEN SELECTING AN ENTITY TYPE TO HOLD TITLE TO REAL ESTATE?
BRENNAN:
Clients unfortunately default to an LLC for entity choice simply because of asset protection. However, when co-investing a Joint Member LLC creates exit strategy concerns as it can hamper one investor’s ability to properly structure a like-kind exchange. Clients need to carefully examine the structure that will house their real estate investment and contemplate the next investment assuming this investment is profitable.
WHAT TYPE OF STRUCTURING DO YOU SEE AT THE ACQUISITION AND DISPOSITION STAGES?
BRENNAN:
Often as a function of how real estate syndications are marketed, most General Partners or Developers use a GP/ LP approach to structuring the laddered returns both for limited partners and general partners. This structure is fine for economics and often yields the intended result with a properly drafted operating agreement. However, partnership interests are not eligible for exchange, so limited partners need to focus on real estate interests that are "deed-able" to make the interest conducive to like-kind exchange treatment.
Clients do not need to seek out a commercially packaged Tenant-in-Common deal to achieve these results, clients simply have to select a well-versed Sponsor and a CPA/tax attorney that can craft a win-win structure for both the limited partners and the general partner.
WHAT TYPE OF ESTATE PLANNING TECHNIQUES DO YOU SEE UTILIZED?
BRENNAN:
The $5 million and up net worth set gravitates mostly to a living trust at first as "Family Stewards" are looking to make managing assets easy for heirs, so a Revocable Living Trust gives the comfort that properties will funnel to the right place via contract and the Grantors (current property owners) do not have to sacrifice control of the assets currently.
In my opinion, clients do not pay adequate attention to estate taxes and how assets are titled. Real estate investors particularly tend to have a desire to control their investments; however, certain investments, such as triple net leases, lend themselves to estate planning and passivity.
Clients should really try to plan for both capital gains events and estate events. Unfortunately too much attention is put on deductions, current income, and economics of deals; however, clients face 25-50% in capital gains taxes upon disposition and upwards of 45-55% in estate taxes. This level of taxation will erode a substantial amount of the cash you will net from an investment when attempting to build real wealth.
WHAT PROPERTY TYPES ARE BEING SWAPPED?
BRENNAN:
Right now institutional investors and traditional buy-and-hold investors believe the market is improving- thus, why "sell in a soft market?". However, clients with low-basis property that have certain events (death, retirement, financial distress) are opting to conduct like-kind exchanges.
An example would be an apartment building investor retiring to Florida and swapping out of an Arlington Apartment building and buying a Walgreens NNN lease as replacement property. The client gets cashflow without the "toilets, tenants, and trash".
clik here for more information
www.1031esgroup.com
The End of The Buyer’s Market
The End of The Buyer’s Market
Getting a Net Lease Asset Before The Market Enters Full Recovery Could Be a Good Move.
2010 Hotel Horizons report published by Colliers PKF Hospitality Research. Average room rates, though, were generally flat.
Analysts consider occupancy a leading indicator — it climbs first, then rate increases follow. This year, they say, hotel rates will begin rising again. “We still have a long way to go, but we’re seeing early signs that because of strong demand recovery in 2010, managers are beginning to move room rates,” said R. Mark Woodward, president of Colliers PKF Hospitality Research. “We’re literally at the turning point.”
For travelers, that probably means the beginning of the end of the buyer’s market they have enjoyed over the last couple of years.
Debt investors are wagering that the worst is over for commercial real estate, driving prices on mortgage bonds to the highest in more than two years.
“Investors have gotten more comfortable and have started putting money back into CMBS,” Chris Callahan, head of commercial-mortgage backed bond trading at Credit Suisse Group AG, said in an interview at the Commercial Real Estate Finance Council’s conference in Washington. “It has gone from being the red-headed stepchild to being a viable asset class again.” http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-25/commercial-real-estate-debt-hits-two-year-high-as-investors-bet-worst-over.html.
Here are the points as we outlined them:
1.The labor market is beginning to show signs of healing.
2.Production is on the rise, albeit from anemic levels.
3.Home sales rose sharply from November to December.
4.Profits are surprisingly on the upside.
5.Financial markets are rallying, to some extent.
6.Core consumer spending, driven by pent-up demand, appears to be regaining some momentum.
7.Factory orders could be picking up from rock-bottom levels.
A common thread in many of these is the sign of some gain from heavily recessed conditions. None of these marks a return to levels we would hope to consider “normal” but they do represent small, perhaps significant, changes. Taken together they lend credence to the notion that the bottom of the crisis has been felt and we are now on the road to recovery, albeit “rocky” recovery.
we also would like to mentions that “Consumers are going to have to remain more defensive than offensive in 2011”. But what about investors? If these signs really point to recovery, this could be one of the last chances to invest in a recessed market. Net lease assets have fared better than most commercial real estate and continue to be a safe bet for the future. Financing still remains tough but for those with the resources, getting a net lease asset before the market enters full recovery could be a good move.
Getting a Net Lease Asset Before The Market Enters Full Recovery Could Be a Good Move.
2010 Hotel Horizons report published by Colliers PKF Hospitality Research. Average room rates, though, were generally flat.
Analysts consider occupancy a leading indicator — it climbs first, then rate increases follow. This year, they say, hotel rates will begin rising again. “We still have a long way to go, but we’re seeing early signs that because of strong demand recovery in 2010, managers are beginning to move room rates,” said R. Mark Woodward, president of Colliers PKF Hospitality Research. “We’re literally at the turning point.”
For travelers, that probably means the beginning of the end of the buyer’s market they have enjoyed over the last couple of years.
Debt investors are wagering that the worst is over for commercial real estate, driving prices on mortgage bonds to the highest in more than two years.
“Investors have gotten more comfortable and have started putting money back into CMBS,” Chris Callahan, head of commercial-mortgage backed bond trading at Credit Suisse Group AG, said in an interview at the Commercial Real Estate Finance Council’s conference in Washington. “It has gone from being the red-headed stepchild to being a viable asset class again.” http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-25/commercial-real-estate-debt-hits-two-year-high-as-investors-bet-worst-over.html.
Here are the points as we outlined them:
1.The labor market is beginning to show signs of healing.
2.Production is on the rise, albeit from anemic levels.
3.Home sales rose sharply from November to December.
4.Profits are surprisingly on the upside.
5.Financial markets are rallying, to some extent.
6.Core consumer spending, driven by pent-up demand, appears to be regaining some momentum.
7.Factory orders could be picking up from rock-bottom levels.
A common thread in many of these is the sign of some gain from heavily recessed conditions. None of these marks a return to levels we would hope to consider “normal” but they do represent small, perhaps significant, changes. Taken together they lend credence to the notion that the bottom of the crisis has been felt and we are now on the road to recovery, albeit “rocky” recovery.
we also would like to mentions that “Consumers are going to have to remain more defensive than offensive in 2011”. But what about investors? If these signs really point to recovery, this could be one of the last chances to invest in a recessed market. Net lease assets have fared better than most commercial real estate and continue to be a safe bet for the future. Financing still remains tough but for those with the resources, getting a net lease asset before the market enters full recovery could be a good move.
Friday, January 21, 2011
Honolulu among Top Commercial Real Estate Markets
Honolulu among Top Commercial Real Estate Markets
Honolulu ranks among the top markets for commercial real estate in the U.S., according to a Moody’s Investors Service study.
The ratings agency said Honolulu was the strongest of the markets surveyed in its study of properties in commercial mortgage backed securities during the fourth quarter.
Rounding out the top five markets were New York, Los Angeles, Washington D.C., and Orange County, California.
Moody’s said commercial real estate markets across the country either improved moderately or were stable during the fourth quarter. The ratings agency ranks markets through a color-coding system in which red is the weakest, yellow is better and green is the strongest.
“The commercial real estate markets are continuing down the road to recovery, though the fact that most markets remain yellow indicates that a comfortable point of stability has not yet been reached,” says Moody’s Vice President Keith Banhazl, in a statement issued by the ratings agency.
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