WMRE Daily
WMRE Daily

JUNE 18, 2021

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Retail Tenants That Paid the Most and the Least Rent in May

For the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic reached U.S. shores, total retail rent collections rose above the 90 percent mark.

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Top Three Considerations for Leasing to Cannabis Businesses in Tri-State NY Area

Opportunities—and pitfalls—abound when it comes to leasing to cannabis businesses in the newly opening market of adult use marijuana in the New York metropolitan area and beyond.

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Mall Retailers Are Exploring Freestanding Sites. Are They a Good Bet for Net Lease Investors?

Consider Gap Inc.: the company, which also owns Banana Republic and Old Navy, has announced plans to open 30 to 40 stores in the next three-year period. The assumption is that these will be all off-mall locations since The Gap recently announced the closing of 30 percent of its in-mall stores. Following these closures, 80 percent of Gap locations will be off-mall.

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Investor Sentiment Recovers

Exclusive survey points to returning confidence in commercial real estate values and performance. 

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Bank of America Says All Vaccinated Staff to Return to Office in September

The bank expects its vaccinated employees to return to the office after Labor Day.

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BlackRock to Allow Vaccinated Staff to Return to Office in July

Non-vaccinated staffers won’t be allowed in the office and will receive an update later this summer, a company memo says.

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Home Flippers Pulled Out of U.S. Housing Market as Prices Surged

Flips accounted for 2.7 percent of U.S. homes sales in the first quarter, the lowest rate since 2000, according to Attom.

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Five Must Reads for the CRE Industry Today

The Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Treasury sent a memo to Congress asking for greater focus on the creation of new housing, reports Vox. Airbnb and Vrbo are battling out for more vacation cabin rentals, according to The Wall Street Journal. These are among today’s must reads from around the commercial real estate industry.

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