On the list of industrial investment markets receiving widespread media coverage, many names are familiar: Nashville, Tennessee; Boise, Idaho; and the high-growth Sun Belt cities. There’s another real estate market experiencing exceptional growth that might be flying under your radar: Columbus, Ohio. The city will host NAIOP’s I.CON Central industrial conference this November.
Stretching from the heart of the Texas oil world to the white sand beaches of Florida, the Gulf Coast has a lot of advantages. In 2024, NAIOP established its Gulf Coast chapter, bringing even more attention to this growing and uniquely high potential commercial real estate market.
Low occupancy across the office sector as well as high demand for housing has many real estate development professionals asking whether adaptive reuse of commercial buildings may be an option to add supply during the housing crisis.
Industrial real estate might have been one of the strongest-performing property types out there in recent years, but it is far from immune to change. Experts at CRE.Converge this week discussed what’s in store for industrial properties in the coming years.
As investors and occupiers look to improve the sustainability of their investments and operations, decarbonizing the built environment is an increasingly important real estate decision. In a panel at CRE.Converge, sustainable building professionals explored some of the strategies their firms are using to mitigate carbon emissions across their industrial real estate portfolios.