Category Archives: Financial

Time to Think About a Sale-Leaseback?

Tweet As the commercial real estate markets and values continue to improve, more retailers and other users who currently own their real estate are contemplating the advantages of owning their real estate assets or whether they should pursue a sale-leaseback strategy to create liquidity.  This is especially true where retailers purchased vacant assets at rock-bottom...

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How to Rethink the Box – a Valley Partnership Event Sponsored by Velocity Retail Group

Tweet Velocity Retail was invited to present their Fourth Quarter Big Box Statistics and Market Update at the recent Valley Partnership breakfast meeting held at the Phoenix Country Club.  The event was well-attended with over 180 participants from all sectors of the commercial real estate industry. Richard Hubbard, President of Valley Partnership reached out to...

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Is Your Cap Rate Compressing?

Tweet After a very difficult 2009 and 2010, the retail investment market significantly improved in 2011 and continued to gather strength throughout 2012. On both the private capital and institutional side of the business, available capital has flowed into the retail sector and has continued to compress capitalization rates very near the market peak years...

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ULI 8th Annual Trends Day Conference

Tweet ULI hosts a one-day conference that brings together 30+ industry experts to discuss the most current state and national real estate trends.  Judi Butterworth from Velocity Retail Group has been selected to speak on the Retail and Entertainment Panel.  She will be joined by Sam Fox from Fox Restaurant Concepts, and Mike Ebert from...

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The CMBS Debt River Is Cresting – What Does It Mean To You?

Tweet The amount of retail Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities (CMBS) delinquencies has reached an all-time high of 10.16%, according to Trepp, a leading provider of commercial mortgage information, analytics, and technology. Velocity Retail Group has watched, analyzed, and predicted this continued increase in delinquencies since shortly after the financial meltdown in the 4th Quarter of 2008. These deliquencies are...

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