Regional Commercial Real Estate Trends
Amazon on Track To Double Industrial Footprint Despite Mounting Labor Shortage

Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer, is on track to double its network of distribution centers, fulfillment sites and sorting facilities over a two-year period that began early in the […]
Read More....Electric-vehicle manufacturing may rev up already busy industrial market

Some of the most high-profile warehouse — and economic development — deals in the U.S. today are in the electric vehicle space. Whether it’s Tesla Inc.’s (NASDAQ: TSLA) 4-million-square-foot manufacturing […]
Read More....ICSC Sees Holiday Retail Spending Rising Nearly 9% This Year

A major trade group for the U.S. retail real estate industry is projecting a roughly 9% rise in holiday spending this year as shoppers return to brick-and-mortar stores and buy […]
Read More....WCRE THIRD QUARTER 2021 REPORT

SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY & PHILLY MARKETS’ ANTICIPATED COMEBACK DELAYED BY DELTA VARIANT Investment Activity & Large Transactions Regained Steam, While Industrial Continued To Lead The Way Commercial real estate brokerage […]
Read More....Peloton’s Pandemic Expansion Leads to One of the Year’s Biggest US Industrial Lease Deals

Peloton is cranking up its pandemic property expansion as the producer of at-home exercise equipment and classes, signing one of the biggest industrial leases in the United States. The maker […]
Read More....Resilient Consumers Keep Spending

Rising COVID cases stemming from the virulent delta variant have driven governments and businesses to reimpose social distancing measures and delay return-to-office policies, putting a damper on some economic activity. […]
Read More....Real estate interest in farmland is sprouting, as land values are up 7% nationally year over year

Soaring land values, inflation concerns and a desire among real estate investors to diversify their portfolios is prompting new interest in farmland real estate. U.S. farm real estate value is […]
Read More....Cooling Off as the Delta Variant Strikes

Signs are mounting that economic conditions are softening, putting economic growth at risk of moderation. Several reports measuring consumer behavior, business activity, and the housing market released last week showed […]
Read More....WCRE SECOND QUARTER 2021 REPORT

WCRE SECOND QUARTER 2021 REPORT: SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY & PHILLY MARKETS FOCUS ON LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL As the COVID-19 Threat Recedes, Good Economic News Helps Shore […]
Read More....Many employees want to work remotely forever. Some business owners will fire those who try.

Many small business owners want their employees to return to the office full-time as the pandemic wanes — and 39% said they would fire workers who refuse. That is from […]
Read More....Cannabis Sales Go Suburban as Large, Open Air Shopping Centers Become Fertile Retail Ground

A Grupo Flor store that just opened in Union City, California, is billed as the nation’s first cannabis business in a type of regional, open-air shopping center that’s normally home to big-box […]
Read More....The Future of Office Work has Arrived

Effective 6 AM on June 4, 2021, employers had the green light to require their employees to return to the office. Gov. Phil Murphy’s Executive Order No. 243 rescinds the […]
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