By: Mike Wheatley
Source: Realty Biz News

Could warehouses become the next big thing in commercial real estate?  It’s too early to say now, but such properties are becoming increasingly sought after, as more retailers eye up the lucrative world of online shopping.

Unsurprisingly, it’s the major retailers like Amazon that are leading this charge, reports CNBC News. Amazon, along with other online retailers, has kept busy of late buying up dozens of small distribution centers around the country. It’s motivation for doing so is that it can keep its products closer to people’s homes, and have them delivered far sooner, something that should boost the company’s business even more.

By Marc Stiles Staff Writer-Puget Sound Business Journal

Source: http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2014/01/27/commercial-real-estate-stats-point-to.html

Commercial real estate services company Jones Lang LaSalle and football legend Roger Staubach, executive chairman of JLL’s operations in the Americas, are predicting that Seattle will lose the Super Bowl.

The reason: Seattle’s commercial office market is healthier than Denver’s.

Before you holler hooey, you should know that in the last 13 Super Bowls, teams in cities with more vacant office space have won the big game 62 percent of the time, according to JLL.

Lodging, Office Sectors See Strongest Gains as Yield-Seeking Investors Target All Types of CRE Across Broad Array of Markets

By Randyl Drummer

Source: CoStar Advisor News Letter 

For buyers and sellers of commercial property, 2013  was a very good year. Total commercial real estatesales are projected to be more than 18% higher in 2013 from the previous year as U.S. property fundamentals and the economy continued to improve and investors in all property types fanned out into smaller markets in search of higher returns, according to preliminary CoStar COMPs transaction volume.

Sales of office, industrial, retail, multifamily, hospitality and land totaled $366 billion in 2013, 17% higher than the $312.4 billion in property that changed hands in 2012, based on property transactions of all sizes that closed by Dec. 31, 2013 and were recorded by CoStar Comps as of Jan. 15, 2014. CoStar is continuing to track down and tabulate additional 2013 property transaction activity, which is expected to boost total sales for 2013 to nearly $370 billion when all transactions are counted.

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