How Is Industrial Real Estate Today?

How Is Industrial Real Estate Today?

Posted on by Jim Klein
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Industrial real estate is a diverse business that includes Investment funds, developers, private/family owners, corporations, occupiers, and a mix of product types and industries. Industrial buildings are in every community and are the source of employment, production, distribution, and wealth for many. The nation’s economic health rides on the success of industrial real estate.

There are several factors that are driving deals today. Broadly, these include Interest Rate Policy, US Industrial Strategy, and Local Municipal Governance. Everyone is affected differently. For example, higher interest rates are never good for real estate, though they affect sales more than leases; sale transactions are interest rate sensitive while leasing is supply and demand based. As an experienced broker, we use detailed knowledge, market analytics, and long-standing relationships to help you in making the best decision.

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Recent Observations: Real Estate Trends

Recent Observations: Real Estate Trends

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Observations of Industrial Real Estate Trends

Real Estate Trends – The Good

Intense industrial real estate trends and conditions are diminishing. There are fewer container ships waiting to unload. The cost to ship a container from Shanghai to Los Angeles is 30% lower from its high. Building rents are still increasing but the doubling during the Covid-19 period was an aberration. While signs of a hyper-market are departing, a strong industrial market remains. There is a deficit of available space, strong corporate demand to improve supply chains and manufacturing resiliency, e-commerce, and high investment flow. Rent surges will continue with holiday stocking schedules starting in the Summer and again later in the year when China re-opens from its Covid-19 lockdown.
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SIORS: Finding More Industrial Deals By Blockchain

SIORS: Finding More Industrial Deals By Blockchain

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We’ll be meeting in Phoenix for SIOR next week. They are bi-annual conferences, and this will be my 60th in attendance. There are three main reasons I attend. I learn from the best brokers and owner/developers in the industry. There are deals to make and I will see longtime friends. The 4th reason this year is to show how blockchain finds more industrial building deals.

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Industrial Space Market Premium

Industrial Space Market Premium

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Industrial building rents are surging. Largest and fastest increases I’ve ever seen. We are almost at the point where rents and sale prices have doubled since the start of Covid. If rents were quoted daily, there would be the same large spikes you see in oil or wheat markets. Because industrial building market data is opaque, only those buyers (and brokers) most in tune with the industrial market read it accurately. Tenants are paying premium prices to obtain space under constrained conditions.
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2022 Continues – Severe Space Shortages

2022 Continues – Severe Space Shortages

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Acute space shortages are national news. Not only here in Los Angeles, where it’s about the worst, but all over the United States. Many tenants are being caught short and others are taking space far in advance, at greater amounts, and at much higher cost. Price bidding leads landlords to weigh credit, use, and history. Credit is the most important enhancement because it notably increases the value of buildings. Larger landlords also favor tenants that will lease multiple buildings across their national holdings.
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Can Crypto and Blockchain Secure your Commissions

Can Crypto and Blockchain Secure your Commissions

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If you had the experience of driving down the street and seeing a building where you should have been paid and were not, this simple technology is of note. As more deals move “off-market”, I want certainty of commission arrangements. Ruthless competition and extreme space shortages is an explosive combination. In this hyper-intense market, this is one example of how I prove Procuring Cause using Blockchain.
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2021 Remains an Unbalanced Industrial Market

2021 Remains an Unbalanced Industrial Market

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The industrial property business has grown from a real estate niche serving mostly large corporations and owner/users to a favored investment of large institutions. The rise coincided with the great manufacturing upheaval of shuttered plants as companies shifted production offshore. Goods return in containerized shipments and begat the new industry of logistics. The result was increased liquidity of both goods and capital. A situation that is ideal for warehouse development and investment. Today’s industrial marketplace is made up of global and national 3pls, shipping companies, e-commerce, and on the capital side, Industrial REITS, large investment funds, and a handful of developers. The Covid Supply Chain phenomena and an increase in tariffs has compounded an already unbalanced space market to acute levels
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Return to Corporate Real Estate

Return to Corporate Real Estate

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There has been a resurgence of demand from Corporate Real Estate. Once, the most important sector of the industrial real estate business, corporate influence has waned in comparison to investor/developers. The fade of corporates is a long-term trend starting when manufacturing moved off shore in the 1980s. Since the Great Financial Crisis, Capital’s influence in industrial real estate has only become more pronounced as investors search for yield. Tenants are the crucial for cash flow, but where it counts the most, in the ownership rankings and at the negotiation table, Capital is the market leader.
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