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Why sophisticated net lease investors should look beyond publicly marketed properties By Randy Blankstein Founder and President, The Boulder Group The publicly marketed net lease market represents only a portion of the properties that may actually be available for acquisition. At any given time, investors searching…
What Cap Rate Should You Expect on a 1031 Replacement Property? By Randy Blankstein, President, The Boulder Group It is the first question nearly every exchange buyer asks, and the one the market answers least clearly. An investor sells an apartment building, a piece of land, or a family-held retail parcel, and…
The Boulder Group, a net leased investment brokerage firm, completed the sale of a single tenant ground leased Fifth Third Bank property located at 2660 US Highway 34 in Oswego, Illinois for $3,855,000. The 4,273-square-foot Fifth Third Bank building sits on 1.26 acres along one of the most heavily trafficked…
By Randy Blankstein, President, The Boulder Group Over nearly three decades advising net lease investors, I’ve watched the buyer pool move through several eras: the syndicator boom, the rise of the net lease REITs, the 1031 exchange wave, the institutional push into the space. The most consequential shift underway…
The Boulder Group, a net leased investment brokerage firm, completed the sale of a single tenant net leased Tractor Supply property located at S68W15440 W Janesville Road in Muskego, Wisconsin for $7,755,359. The newly constructed Tractor Supply store totals 21,930 square feet and sits on a 4.13-acre parcel within…
The Boulder Group, a net leased investment brokerage firm, completed the sale of a single tenant net leased Valley Animal Hospital located at 58 W 16th Street in Merced, California for $1,945,000. The 4,998-square-foot property is situated at 58 W 16th Street in Merced, California, within Merced County in…
The most tax-efficient asset in net lease isn’t the one with the highest cap rate. Net lease investors will negotiate for weeks over 25 basis points. Then they overlook a section of the tax code worth ten times that. Here’s what I mean. Most commercial real estate depreciates over 39 years. Slow, steady,…
The Boulder Group published a comprehensive quarterly analysis of net lease sector trends and performance metrics for the second quarter.
The Boulder Group, a net leased investment brokerage firm, completed the sale of a single tenant net leased Chipotle property located at 2302 Thornton Lansing Road in Lansing, Illinois for $2,450,000. The 2,465 square-foot building was constructed in 2024 specifically for Chipotle and is situated in the south…
The Boulder Group, a net leased investment brokerage firm, completed the sale of a single tenant net leased Wendy’s property located at 308 West Brandon Boulevard in Brandon, Florida for $1,500,000. The 3,574 square-foot Wendy’s restaurant sits on 0.71 acres and is corporately operated by Wendy’s within the…
The Boulder Group announced the release of its Second Quarter Net Lease Research Report today. The report features a comprehensive format with specific net lease sector information. According to The Boulder Group’s Q2 2026 Net Lease Research Report, overall single tenant net lease cap rates increased two basis…
The Boulder Group, a net leased investment brokerage firm, completed the sale of a single tenant net leased Sherwin-Williams property located at 3730 Jennings Road in Kalamazoo, Michigan for $2,469,000. The 3,500-square-foot building was constructed in 2025 specifically for Sherwin-Williams and sits on 1.17 acres…
The Boulder Group has completed the sale of a single tenant Family Dollar located at 770 Red Table Drive in Gypsum, CO for $1,700,000. The Boulder Group’s Zach Wright and Brandon Wright exclusively represented the seller in the transaction, a repeat client and private Colorado-based investor. The purchaser was an…
The Boulder Group has completed the sale of a single tenant new construction Dollar General property located at 905 S Victor Street in Christopher, IL for $1,678,000. The Boulder Group’s Zach Wright and Brandon Wright represented the seller in the transaction, a Midwest-based real estate development company. The…
The Boulder Group, a net leased investment brokerage firm, completed the sale of a single tenant medical property leased to Aurora Health Care property located at 2408 10th Street in Menominee, Michigan for $2,415,000. The 4,540-square-foot medical office building was built-to-suit for Aurora Health Care in 2018…
The Boulder Group, a net leased investment brokerage firm, completed the sale of a single tenant net leased Guitar Center property located at 5483 Virginia Beach Boulevard in Virginia Beach, Virginia for $2,850,000. The property is located at 5483 Virginia Beach Boulevard in Virginia Beach, Virginia, along a…
The Boulder Group, a net leased investment brokerage firm headquartered in Wilmette, Illinois, has been named to Commercial Property Executive’s 2026 ranking of the Top 20 Commercial Real Estate Brokerage Firms in the United States. The ranking, published annually by Commercial Property Executive in its June issue,…
The Boulder Group, a net leased investment brokerage firm, completed the sale of a single tenant net leased Wendy’s restaurant located at 5455 West Main Street in Kalamazoo, Michigan for $1,600,000. The Wendy’s property at 5455 West Main Street is situated along one of the primary retail corridors in Kalamazoo,…
The Boulder Group has completed the sale of a single tenant brand-new construction Dollar General property located at 18895 State Route 142 in Opdyke, IL for $1,650,000. The property sold shortly following rent commencement. The Boulder Group’s Zach Wright and Brandon Wright represented the seller in the…
The Boulder Group, a net leased investment brokerage firm, completed the sale of a single tenant net leased 7-Eleven convenience store located at 1690 Hinson Ave E in Haines City, Florida for $3,000,000. The property is situated at a hard corner signalized intersection along US Highway 17-92 in Polk County,…
The Boulder Group has completed the sale of a single tenant Goodwill property located at 911 East Greenville Pike in Winchester, IN for $2,156,000. The Boulder Group’s Brandon Wright & Zach Wright, in association with Alex Cohn of Colliers, represented the seller in the transaction. The seller was an Indiana-based…
Financial and operational profiles of 87+ net lease tenants across multiple sectors, used to benchmark credit and pricing in the single-tenant net lease market.
The Boulder Group reported single tenant net lease cap rate stabilization continued in the fourth quarter of 2025, with overall cap rates increasing one basis point to 6.81 percent and retail cap rates compressing to 6.55 percent. High-credit retailers commanded sub-6 percent cap rates while challenged tenants traded above 7 percent.