NEW YORK, NY—There is no shortage of capital chasing retail real estate heading into 2017, according to Cushman & Wakefield's Metropolitan Area Capital Markets Group. At the same time, limited product coming online for sale continues to dampen transactional volume.
“We are still seeing a lot of interest in the retail sector, but investors are having trouble finding quality product in the market,” says Brian Whitmer, retail practice lead of the Metropolitan Area Capital Markets Group. “They have been increasingly more selective, targeting core markets, urban street retail and grocery-anchored shopping centers with strong credit. Yet most of the product coming online is located in secondary or tertiary assets, or non-core locations.”
For context, Whitmer's group has tracked a 38 percent drop in total retail real estate sales volume in the tristate market year-over-year, with $1.9 billion in trades through mid-December 2016. The number of transactions is down 28 percent, to a total of 86 sales. Grocery-anchored properties in Northern New Jersey accounted for 86 percent of total transactions.
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