Capital Markets

Happy Days are here again! Wall Street M&A and mega-deals are back—billions and billions of dollars' worth of them.

"This is an excellent example of Capital Square 1031's strategy – helping investors acquire an interest in a higher quality replacement property than they could afford to purchase on their own," says Louis Rogers of Capital Square 1031.

Panelists during the capital markets panel at ICSC's RECon event here in Las Vegas say that while valuations are peak”ish”, the expansion in the retail capital markets space has really been led by responsible buying and borrowing.

Office tenants overwhelmingly represent the majority of the leasing activity in the San Diego office market for the first quarter.

“The deal represented a value-add opportunity for the purchaser to obtain higher rents by upgrading kitchens and baths," says Kislak's Robert Holland. It's the fifth time Kislak has brokered a sale of the properties.

The deal is following Blackstone's exit from its position in Hilton last week.

The measures have been incorporated into the Dodd-Frank reform bill that is expected to be put up for vote on May 22.

With office cap rates already at all-time lows and institutional investors pushing the limits on rent growth expectations, cap rates this year are expected to hit a wall.