Impact of Large Chain Store Closures on Retail Rents

By Barbara Byrne Denham and Scott Rappaport, Contributing Columnists

The report looks at the percentage of inventory that store closures account for and the change in rent growth rates by metro. The purpose of this analysis is to see if and how these store closures have affected rent growth rates.

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Tight Market Ensures Rents for Life Sciences Space Keep Climbing

By Robert Carr, Contributing Writer

A lack of quality office and laboratory space, combined with outsized demand, is pushing rents higher in a sector already struggling with rising labor costs.

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Office Developers Size Up Suburban Markets for Spec Development

CoStar

With construction cranes crowding the downtown skylines in the San Francisco Bay Area, New York City, Seattle and other large CBDs, office developers may do well to branch out into markets and submarkets.

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Manhattan Luxury Rent Prices Are Growing at the Slowest Pace Since 2010

By Julie Verhage

Bloomberg

Renters in the New York City area are finally catching a break. According to a new report from listings website StreetEasy.com, rental prices are rising much more slowly than in recent years, with luxury apartments leading the slump.

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10 Must Reads for the CRE Industry Today

By NREI Staff

Germany has no plans to bail out ailing lenders such as Deutsche Bank , according to Fortune . Private equity firms have no interest in purchasing any of the 1,000 stores Walgreen's plans to sell to acquire Rite Aid, Chain Store Age reports. These are among today's must reads from around the commercial real estate industry.

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