COLUMBIA, MD—Capital recycling has become the buzzword among commercial real estate companies, especially REITs. It usually, but not always, means the company is selling its non-strategic or non-core assets with an eye to picking up a better property for its portfolio. For the buying companies in this equation – that is, the company acquiring the unwanted asset – this process represents an opportunity to acquire a property in a marketplace that has seen precious little supply enter the pipeline.
Thus we have Atlanta-based Columbia Property Trust's sale of three separate office buildings for total proceeds of $88.5 million in cash, one of which occurred in the Washington DC area. The REIT sold its 247,624-square-foot Class-A office property at 7031 Columbia Gateway Dr. in Columbia, MD, to the tenant MICROS Systems.
The other transactions as well were single-tenant suburban offices—not exactly the most favored asset class of the moment--that traded to companies seeking to occupy the properties, not hold them as investments. They were the 128,296-square-foot SunTrust Building at 200 South Orange in Orlando, FL, to Susquehanna Holdings, and a previously vacant 240,274-square-foot office at 160 Park Ave. in Florham Park, NJ, that sold to a new user, Automatic Switch Co.
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