RCM and SIOR ask: Do you have an Amazon strategy?

The industrial market has been on a hot streak since 2012? Is it time for an inevitable slowdown? Or will the good times continue?

Brokers, it seems, lean toward the latter. And many of them have a warning for investors: Whatever you do in industrial real estate in the future, you need to have an Amazon strategy to deal with the growth and increasing reach of the online giant.

The majority of brokers who responded to a recent survey from Real Capital Markets and the Society of Industrial and Office Realtors said that investors will remain active – either at current levels or slightly elevated ones – in this commercial sector for the next 12 to 18 months. These same respondents said that e-commerce – and especially activity by Amazon – continues as the most important factor influencing this commercial sector, for both good and bad...

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RSK: We know we are seeing this pressure since Amazon started expanding....do you have your strategy in place?