Net lease investment is in for another strong year, according to Spencer Levy of CBRE. Net lease inherently allows investors to achieve attractive risk-adjusted returns compared to other investment assets, even other real estate investments. That fact alone will keep the net lease investments in favor this year, but has investors look to mitigate risk in the wake of the pandemic, the asset class has become all the more popular.

"The single scarcest think in the world are large, high-yielding investments. If you look at stocks, bonds, real estate, there are not a lot. On a risk-adjusted basis, net lease provides one of those few avenues where you can get a very good risk-adjusted yield at scale," Levy, global chief client advisor and senior economic advisor at CBRE, tells GlobeSt.com. Levy is giving his outlook on the net lease investment market this spring at the GlobeSt.com Net Lease conference, held in New York City April 4 and 5.

Last year was a record year for net lease investment, and Levy expects that momentum to carry into 2022. "I believe that this is going to be a very busy year for net lease investment because it is less risky in nature than some of the other asset types, and in part because you can still get a very good long-term, stable yield," says Levy. "If you are able to go further out on the risk spectrum and take a shorter term, it could be even better. I see opportunities both for the core and core-plus elements of the market."

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Kelsi Maree Borland

Kelsi Maree Borland is a freelance journalist and magazine writer based in Los Angeles, California. For more than 5 years, she has extensively reported on the commercial real estate industry, covering major deals across all commercial asset classes, investment strategy and capital markets trends, market commentary, economic trends and new technologies disrupting and revolutionizing the industry. Her work appears daily on GlobeSt.com and regularly in Real Estate Forum Magazine. As a magazine writer, she covers lifestyle and travel trends. Her work has appeared in Angeleno, Los Angeles Magazine, Travel and Leisure and more.