Longer-form thinking on where the market goes.
4 white papers

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…

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 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,…