Net Lease Sector Looks Forward to Robust Second Half

Like the rest of the commercial real estate community, the net lease sector experienced a grim second quarter. Unlike the rest of the industry, though, net lease appears set to have a robust second half. That is the consensus of the panelists at GlobeSt.’s Net Lease virtual conference, held Thursday. 

“Things have come back since the pandemic started,” Barclay Jones, EVP for iStar, told listeners. “I think Q3 will be a strong quarter.” Part of what shut the firm down those early, he added, were the bottlenecks that immediately sprang up as the world retreated to their homes in the Spring. Those have been largely resolved, he said.