Manufacturing Is Becoming Industrial Real Estate’s Biggest Opportunity

Industrial has been the best performing property sector for most of the past decade, and the reasons have been consistent. E-commerce growth created demand for distribution space, the pandemic exposed the fragility of global supply chains, and retailers responded by holding more inventory closer to consumers. That combination produced a construction cycle built almost entirely around logistics, with the archetypal industrial asset being a large-format distribution center on a highway interchange.   ...more

RSK: Maybe more individual transactions but over all size and dollars it is data centers.