
Once again, Jussi Askola has written another excellent article at Seeking Alpha. Check out his take on why REIT investments are more rewarding than rental properties for the vast majority of investors in the article at this link.
Once again, Jussi Askola has written another excellent article at Seeking Alpha. Check out his take on why REIT investments are more rewarding than rental properties for the vast majority of investors in the article at this link.
R. Paul Drake has written an interesting article at Seeking Alpha regarding the compression of cap rates and the resulting impact to REIT earnings. You can check it out here.
Jussi Askola shares his bullish opinion of the REIT market in this article at Seeking Alpha.
(As reported in the Birmingham Business Journal…)
Birmingham-based Premium Property Trust acquired seven properties in a package deal from its founder and various joint partners.
Premium Property added 63,000 square feet of combined office, retail and medical space as part of the $24.7 million deal, it said. The assets were previously jointly owned by founder Chris Reebals and various investment partners.
“While Reebals founded Premium Property and is still its chairman, the company is now made up of independent investors,” said CEO Burke Cox. The plan right now is to use these in-service properties to launch an investment fund and eventually elect as a real estate investment trust. “Longer term, the company would seek a public offering,” Cox said.
“It is an exciting time for us as we have spent over two years raising capital and negotiating this deal with several partners across the properties,” Cox said.
The properties the company acquired as part of the deal were:
• 2601 Highland Ave., Birmingham: 13,190 square feet
• 3040 Independence Drive, Birmingham: 5,000 square feet
• 2913 Linden Ave., Homewood: 7,500 square feet
• 2915 Linden Ave., Homewood: 1,300 square feet
• 324 Commons Drive, Birmingham: 15,030 square feet
• 2081 Columbiana Road, Vestavia Hills: 14,130 square feet
• 4213 Dolly Ridge Road, Vestavia Hills: 2,800 square feet
Premium Property also consolidated a refinancing deal for one of its existing properties, the 5,000-square-foot 1920 Huntington Road, as part of the transaction.
“Premium Property is also in the midst of a 60,000-square-foot mixed-use development project on Morris Avenue called the Armour Building,” Cox said.
Penelope Mason does an admirable job of explaining the types of REITs and the investor profiles that might select between them. I recommend her article REITs vs. REIT ETFs: How They Compare on News Nation.
Over the past several years, I have read extensively regarding the concept of “New Urbanism” – an over thirty-year old approach to rethinking how we live, work, and play. Simply put, up until the 1950s we built communities where people could easily walk to needed destinations (the store, the theatre, school) right out their front door. Following that, a trend towards sub-urbanism emerged, where people sought lower housing prices by moving out of town into newly developing communities.
Eventually, enough people move into these sub-urban communities that various retail stores begin to emerge (sometimes as a part of a thoughtful plan, sometimes not). These often evolve into “power centers,” which I’m sure you’ve seen: a grocery store and drug store combination, some national chains like Panera Bread, Starbucks, and Taco Bell. Surely there will be a Michaels, Wal-Mart, and Home Depot nearby. Maybe an IHOP for the weekend family pancake stuff-yourself-a-thon.
Regardless, there will be one inescapable feature: asphalt, and lots of it. You will find yourself driving to one destination (“Best Buy”) to pick up a new case for your iPhone, then reenter your car to drive less than a mile to fight the parking lot struggle again…this time for a brief stop into a trendy sports store (“REI”) to get some new hiking shoes. You’ll need them, but not for scenic walks. Rather, for regular treks across pavement as you drive between unremarkably designed storefronts every weekend.
These power centers differ little from town to town and have homogenized our lives into a shared experience that many find unsatisfying. Enter the concept of “New Urbanism.” Like any transformational idea, New Urbanism attracts cult-like apostles, rabid naysayers, and about everything in between.
Given the limits of space in this article, I cannot begin to address all of the positive aspects and negative criticisms of the New Urbanism movement. Some good starting points on that are in the book, “Community by Design” by Hall & Porterfield and many resources at the Congress for New Urbanism website (www.cnu.org).
But for me, creating town centers with parking on the periphery, walkable streets, and mixed-use commercial centers can accomplish many admirable goals:
Recently, I observed the purchase of an older commercial complex with the announcement, “Dollar General and Sally Beauty to Anchor New Commercial Development.” I am not trying to belittle either of those businesses, but the mental picture of what this development would look like was crystal clear long before opening the article. I think we can do better with just a little extra effort and that is core to my belief in New Urbanism. It is also the mission of our company, Premium Property Trust, as we find ways to use good design and New Urbanism principles to positively affect the lives of communities.
Jennifer Liu of CNBC writes about how co-working spaces like our own WorxBHM could succeed in the post-pandemic world.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/04/how-co-working-spaces-could-succeed-in-the-post-pandemic-world.html
Kelsi Borland of GlobeSt discusses why investors are becoming increasingly interested in the nuances of acquiring a private REIT for www.GlobeSt.com today.
https://www.globest.com/2020/03/03/why-private-reit-acquisitions-are-becoming-wildly-popular/