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 for single-tenant net lease properties can find substantial inventory […]

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 arrives at […]

The Boulder Group, a net leased investment brokerage firm, completed the sale of a single tenant ground leased Fifth Third Bank property located at 2660 US Highway 34 in Oswego, Illinois for $3,855,000. The 4,273-square-foot Fifth Third Bank building sits on 1.26 acres along one of the most heavily trafficked retail corridors in Kendall County […]

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 now is quieter than any of […]

The Boulder Group, a net leased investment brokerage firm, completed the sale of a single tenant net leased Tractor Supply property located at S68W15440 W Janesville Road in Muskego, Wisconsin for $7,755,359. The newly constructed Tractor Supply store totals 21,930 square feet and sits on a 4.13-acre parcel within the Milwaukee MSA. The property is […]

The Boulder Group, a net leased investment brokerage firm, completed the sale of a single tenant net leased Valley Animal Hospital located at 58 W 16th Street in Merced, California for $1,945,000. The 4,998-square-foot property is situated at 58 W 16th Street in Merced, California, within Merced County in California’s San Joaquin Valley. West 16th […]

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, unremarkable. Gas […]

The Boulder Group announced the release of its Second Quarter Net Lease Research Report today. The report features a comprehensive format with specific net lease sector information. According to The Boulder Group’s Q2 2026 Net Lease Research Report, overall single tenant net lease cap rates increased two basis points to 6.82% in the second quarter […]

The Boulder Group, a net leased investment brokerage firm, completed the sale of a single tenant net leased Chipotle property located at 2302 Thornton Lansing Road in Lansing, Illinois for $2,450,000. The 2,465 square-foot building was constructed in 2024 specifically for Chipotle and is situated in the south suburban portion of the Chicago metropolitan area. […]

The Boulder Group, a net leased investment brokerage firm, completed the sale of a single tenant net leased Sherwin-Williams property located at 3730 Jennings Road in Kalamazoo, Michigan for $2,469,000. The 3,500-square-foot building was constructed in 2025 specifically for Sherwin-Williams and sits on 1.17 acres within the Kalamazoo-Portage MSA. The Sherwin-Williams property at 3730 Jennings […]