ORLANDO—Net lease assets are some of the most predictable and typically, long term commercial real estate assets available in today's market. So says David Sobelman, executive vice president and managing partner at Calkain.

“Those attributes, among dozens of related variables, are the reason why most investors are attracted to the investment category,” he tells GlobeSt.com. “However, some of the world's greatest pontificators have always known that change is inevitable.”

Calkain pointed to a quip from Henry David Thoreau, who explained in the mid-1800s that "Things do not change, we change." As he sees it, the same theory can be applied to single-tenant real estate and especially how tenants operate their companies from their physical locations.