Del Beccaro says the middle market is a battleground for high-touch brokerage and management services, which puts a regional firm such as TRI Commercial in a good position to win a lot of that business.

"We are seeing the type of sustained transactional activity that propelled us to our healthiest leasing performance in recent years portfolio-wide in 2017,” says Matthew K. Harding, Levin's president.

“This sale of a Hobby Lobby with less than 10 years remaining to an institutional buyer signifies that although retail is shifting, big box is not dead,” says Marcus & Millichap's Sabrina Kortlandt.