CRE apocalypse? Not quite. Instead, we’re seeing a net lease boom

Fire. That’s the word Ralph Cram, president of Envoy Net Lease Partners in the Chicago suburb of Northbrook, Illinois, uses to describe the net lease market today.

Yes, the net lease business did take a hit during the earlier days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Investors were hesitant to sink their dollars into any property, including net lease ones.

But that began to change this year. As Cram says, the investors came back to net lease assets in a big way starting in early February....
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RSK: The author nails it! There is not just a shortage in Net Leased CRE but in almost every sector of commercial real estate, the high demand being fueled by the possibility the rumor 1031 exchanges may disappear.