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Early indications show that 2018 is holding true to form, except in net lease. The slower than normal pace this year for the wider commercial real estate industry is more likely due more to cycle than season.
While the grocery industry is undergoing changes in tenant mix, technology, and customer trends, the acquisition of Whole Foods by Amazon did not have a noticeable effect on grocery sector.
Cap rates in the net lease sector are at all-time lows. That statement (of the obvious) in and of itself is not a headline. The change in the mix of properties making up what is being sold today versus the last few years is, however, worth looking at. The properties that have been driving the ever lower cap rates are ironically the ones with less credit behind them. Indeed for each year over the past…
Like much of the net-lease market, Dollar General cap rates have been compressing since 2009. However, as we approach the end of 2015, it is increasingly likely average cap rates for Dollar General stores will set an all time new record.
Last week's announcement of Walgreens $17B+ acquisition of Rite Aid has sent reverberations throughout the single-tenant net-lease world. The merger would combine the country's largest and third largest pharmacies, creating a retail behemoth with well over $100B+ in annual sales.
Founded in 1971, Starbucks is a global brand in the quick service retail sector, specializing in the sale of high-margin specialty coffee. For the fiscal year ending 2014, Starbucks generated revenue of $16.44 billion and net income of $2.07 billion, with an extremely impressive gross margin of 58.54% and pre-tax operating margin of 18.7%. As of September 2015, its stock had appreciated 48% on a year-over-year basis. …