MIAMI-The 13,624-square-foot retail building in which Victoria’s Secret makes its South Beach home sold for $17.65 million, or $1,331 per square foot, to a foreign entity with an office in New York City. The property is located at 745 Collins Ave. in the heart of South Beach.

Lori Schneider, senior vice president of Investments in Marcus & Millichap’s Fort Lauderdale office, and Drew Kristol and Kirk Olson, senior associates in the firm’s Miami office, represented the seller. Sean Shahar Ziv, a net-leased property investment specialist in M&M’s San Diego office, represented the buyer.

“There were multiple all-cash offers on this property from not only South Florida buyers but also the Northeast, Midwest, South America and Russia as well,” says Schneider. “With a lack of quality inventory in high-profile locations like Manhattan and Downtown Chicago, an increasing number of out-of-state and foreign investors are setting their sights on prime real estate in similar locations: Well-trafficked, pedestrian friendly corridors with high barriers to entry.

Schneider reveals that the buyer of the Victoria’s Secret-leased building hails from New York City, and has ties to foreign capital. As Schneider sees it, the sale demonstrates intense demand from overseas investors for class A coastal real estate.

Victoria’s Secret has a 15-year double-net lease on the property with 14 years remaining on the base term and one 10-year option to renew. Annual 2.5 percent rent increases during the base term and the option period are built into the lease.

“This trophy asset was constructed in 1940 and extensively renovated in 2009,” says Kristol. “The location’s demographics are excellent with more than 164,000 people living within a five-mile radius and continued projected growth of nearly 12%.”

National retailers immediately surrounding the property include Ralph Lauren, Guess, Barneys New York, Armani Exchange, Club Monaco, Kenneth Cole, Steve Madden, Sephora, and Dash. The building features 10,264 square feet of retail space on the first two floors and 3,000 square feet of office and storage space on the third level.

“This sale illustrates the continued demand for high-quality commercial real estate that benefits from substantial barriers to entry and has demonstrated the ability to weather the economic downturn,” Anthony Blanco, co-managing partner of Plaza Advisors, tells GlobeSt.com. “A substantial amount of domestic and foreign capital is seeking assets like these and the demand for such real estate far exceeds the supply in the marketplace. Pricing is very strong for these assets but at the end of the day it’s still an irreplaceable piece of commercial real estate that should continue to do well in the future.”

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