Quarterly Retail Update: Investors Respond To Improving Conditions for Shopping Center Owners, Tenants

Retail property sales volume bounced back from the doldrums in the first half of 2011, with $ 19.4 billion in assets trading in the second quarter alone — three times the volume of 2009, CoStar economists said.

While overall investment sales volume has returned to 2007 levels, a much larger share of the pie qualifies as distressed assets compared with that period. One of the largest commercial real estate deals since the credit crisis closed in…
National Commercial Real Estate News From CoStar Group