By Randy Blankstein, President, The Boulder Group For years, sale-leasebacks were often viewed primarily as real estate transactions. A company owned a property, sold it to an investor and leased it back for continued occupancy. That description is technically accurate, but it misses the more important point. A sale-leaseback is increasingly a corporate capital allocation […]

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 […]

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 […]