A panel of executives at leading industrial development firms shared their outlooks for the future of industrial real estate at NAIOP’s I.CON West: The Industrial Conference this week in Long Beach, California. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of e-commerce and demand for industrial real estate over the last two years, creating new opportunities […]
Ports and occupiers are facing innumerable challenges brought on by increased demand, supply chain delays and shortages of drivers who move materials after they’ve been unloaded from container ships. Nicole Bennett, executive managing director, logistics & industrial co-lead, Americas, Cushman & Wakefield, moderated a session at I.CON West: The Industrial Conference this week and posed […]
“What’s happening in the economy overall is complex,” said Christopher Thornberg, Ph.D., founding partner of Beacon Economics and keynote speaker at NAIOP’s I.CON West: The Industrial Conference this week in Long Beach, California. “Fourth quarter 2021 GDP [gross domestic product] was 6.9% and February unemployment was 3.8%.” Those numbers look good, he said, but tell […]
Prior to the rise of e-commerce, industrial real estate was among the asset classes most immune to change. However, thanks to the rising logistical needs of retailers, increasingly specialized production methods and global supply chain issues, the industrial market has been significantly transformed in the last decade, with an increasingly large volume of industrial real […]
As two tumultuous years closed for the office sector and return-to-office plans were upended by new variants and case surges, millions of workers remained in remote or mostly remote setups. And, while the average office vacancy rate climbed across top U.S. markets, one segment continues to show resiliency: medical office buildings (MOBs). Even though elective […]
Images of office buildings usually portray those in a city — dense, glass-covered skyscrapers in the heart of a metropolis. But the majority of office buildings built in the last 20 years were actually in the suburbs. Using data provided by CommercialEdge, COMMERCIALCafé compared where office properties have been constructed since 2002 — in suburban […]
Almost every day, another news article pops up about how the workplace is changing. While this isn’t a fresh topic, said Phil Mobley, director of US occupier research with Avison Young in a NAIOP webinar this week, discussion increased with the onset of the pandemic in early 2020. On the bright side, office talk has […]
Data-driven approaches are frequently used to identify core growth markets for industrial development and acquisitions. These combine top-down demographic and macroeconomic data with bottom-up information from specific submarkets. A recent webinar for NAIOP members provided insights into how commercial real estate professionals can turn data into actionable information for investors. According to James Freeman, Managing […]