South Florida’s industrial properties remain a valuable commodity for landlords and real estate investors as vacancies hover near record lows and rents continue to rise, developers and brokers say. However, with more warehouses being built and businesses less desperate for storage space, the wild days of annual double-digit rent hikes are long gone.
The global forces affecting logistics real estate include less volatility, consumer service levels fueling demand and contracting new building deliveries.
A new method developed by NAIOP of ranking industrial markets in both sales volume and volatility claims to offer new insight into risks that may help investors and developers create better strategies around market entry and exit.
Despite headwinds, this soaring niche continues to attract an increasing number of investors. Industry experts expect substantial growth to continue, driven by increasing demand and need for temperature-controlled storage and transportation of food, pharmaceuticals and chemicals.
According to Green Street’s latest industrial sector update, the eport authors point to cold storage demand, rising NOI forecasts and cash-releasing spreads — especially at Prologis — and Houston and East Coast port activity.
