MIAMI-With massive amounts of retail coming online in Miami, some investors are placing their bets a little further north. A Canadian investor is one of them.

Franklin Street just completed the sale of two open-air retail centers in Fort Lauderdale for a combined price of just under $12.4 million. Franklin Street's Greg Matus, regional managing partner, and Peter Crane, an investment associate at the firm, represented both parties in each separate transaction.

"Multi-tenant, unanchored retail centers are in high demand right now from investors," Matus tells GlobeSt.com. "The cost of capital is very competitive and retail rents are on the rise in South Florida creating ideal conditions for trading activity.”

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