CHICAGO—Long-term net leased assets have become quite popular, and JLL has assembled a team of experts to help clients decide if instead of leasing they would prefer controlling development of new facilities and arranging for third-party investors to purchase the properties upon completion.

“It can be an eye-opener for them,” Bruce Westwood-Booth, managing director of JLL's capital markets division, tells GlobeSt.com. He will take part in a panel on sale-leasebacks and build-to-suit developments at this week's Real Share Net Lease 2015 conference in New York City.

Doing things this way reduces a developer's risk, and according to a white paper produced by JLL, “can reduce or eliminate their required equity contribution and therefore reduce the ultimate lease rate for the tenant.”

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Brian J. Rogal

Brian J. Rogal is a Chicago-based freelance writer with years of experience as an investigative reporter and editor, most notably at The Chicago Reporter, where he concentrated on housing issues. He also has written extensively on alternative energy and the payments card industry for national trade publications.