Will Pike
NEW YORK—The office and retail sectors drove big gains for overall US net-lease investment volume in Q2 2019, setting records and capturing the spotlight from the darling industrial asset class, according to a CBRE report tracking net-lease investment volume for Q2 2019. Large transactions demonstrated investors can shift consensus about sectors and their performance as office grabbed the top five net-lease transaction spots.
The office and retail sectors achieved 65.7% and 52.2% growth year-over-year, respectively. Whereas, industrial's growth remained steady at 0.6%, but experienced a 10.9% decline in market share, due to the upped market share of office and retail. Overall, US net-lease investment volume for Q2 2019 was the second-highest recorded to date, totaling $20.6 billion, up 33.8% year-over-year. Net-lease investment volume for the year-ending Q2 2019, totaled $74.2 billion, the highest CBRE has ever reported.
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Mariah Brown
Mariah Brown is the New York Bureau Chief and Real Estate Reporter for GlobeSt.com, covering the New York Metro area, Northeast region and national real estate trends. She is responsible for producing multi-media content, including articles, podcasts and video. Before joining the GlobeSt team, she served as a New York Times fellow, reported for the Associated Press in New York and Philadelphia and several other New York City-based outlets.
