Industrial Real Estate News

The intensity of industrial real estate activity around the Georgia port underscores the strong demand nationally for logistics properties as well as shipper implementation of long-term plans to use Southeast versus West Coast ports to access inland markets.

Logistics property developer makes $1.1 billion acquisition of US portfolio.

A new white paper commissioned by the Van Horne Institute and completed by JOC outlines how Canada can build on its success in creating inland ports.

Retailer tightens control over delivery times, flow of inventory from warehouses as e-commerce grows.

Logistics property developer GLP has entered into a long-term agreement with box-maker China International Marine Containers.

Retailers such as Wal-Mart want to reduce inventory while offering more products.

Net absorption of warehouse and distribution space in the U.S. during the first six months of 2016 was the strongest since 2007.

Surging e-commerce demand and spending in Asia has logistics companies looking to the future.

Absorption of warehouse and distribution facilities is expected to exceed delivery of new space.

Investment continues to pour into Japan’s undersupplied warehouse sector.

Rents for multitenant distribution center space in 2015 grew faster than those of any other property type.

Urgent need for modern warehousing space in Japan as e-commerce demand rises.

Domestic consumption in China gives GLP a solid annual earnings report.

Mention Indianapolis and its famous speedway comes to mind, but so should supply chain velocity, warehousing and freight.

Warehouse capacity in the U.S. is at the tightest level "ever observed," one real estate firm says.

Could U.S. freight volumes rise and overall economic growth slow?

A sharp turnaround in industrial real estate activity around the Savannah port underscores the white-hot demand nationally for logistics properties as well as shippers putting in place long-term plans to use Southeast versus West Coast ports to access the regional market.

LF Logistics has opened a 1-million-square-foot logistics facility in Singapore, the largest automated and customs bonded distribution warehouse in the city state that will target surging e-commerce growth in Asia.

The market for industrial real estate is booming nationwide, with record occupancy rates at the start of 2016 that are fueled in part by demand from logistics companies, two recent commercial real estate reports say.

Industrial real estate services company Jones Lang LaSalle has snagged Walter Kemmsies, a noted economist with a focus in logistics, from infrastructure advisor Moffat & Nichol.

Warehouses and distribution centers near the largest U.S. population centers are filling up fast. The vacancy rate of 6.4 percent at the end of 2015 was the lowest in 15 years and is expected to get even tighter this year as retailers’ demand for space outstrips supply.

A directory of US warehousing and service providers in 2016.

Logistics property developer Goodman has secured 100 percent of its Brazil operating platform, giving the Australia-based company complete control over the 190 million square feet it has under management.

Despite slowing U.S. economy, the industrial real estate sector in 2016 will experience disciplined but broad-based expansion as retailers seek quality warehouse and distribution space for both their brick-and-mortar and e-commerce fulfillment needs, according to developer Prologis.

Global warehouse provider GLP and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board have poured almost $1 billion into expanding their Japanese joint venture fund to capitalize on growing demand for logistics facilities in the country.

Robust growth in GLP’s China business, strong gains in Japan and a storming entry into the U.S. market drove up the third quarter earnings of the logistics property developer by 64 percent.

Despite unexpected volatility in the first few weeks of 2016, Cushman & Wakefield anticipates one more year of strong absorption of industrial real estate space before demand in the warehouse and distribution sector slows down.

DB Schenker, the logistics arm of Germany’s Deutsche Bahn, has strengthened its presence in India with the opening of a third, new warehouse facility in Bhiwandi, near Mumbai.

Strong demand for quality logistics facilities in China has seen Goodman Group and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) increasing their equity in a China partnership by $1.25 billion.

Demand for warehouse, distribution, and e-commerce fulfillment space exceeded supply in 2015 across the U.S., and Jones Lang LaSalle projects these conditions will persist next year, according to the JLL 2016 Industrial Outlook.

Old Dominion Freight Line is adding a second terminal in St. Louis, Missouri, expanding its less-than-truckload service in the city and the Midwest.

Apparel wholesaler S&S Activewear is the latest company to set up distribution operations in the Kansas City area, expanding its overnight delivery footprint in the Central U.S.

Adam Roth, director, NAI Global Logistics, explains how the industrial real estate industry is working to create more capacity for growing e-commerce demand. He shared his insight with Alessandra Barrett, senior content director, JOC, at the JOC Inland Distribution Conference in Memphis, Tennessee, in October.

Vacancies for warehouses and distribution centers in the “red hot” New Jersey market dropped to 7.2 percent in the third quarter, the lowest rate since the recession took hold in 2007.

A developer is adding more than half a million square feet of speculative industrial space at BNSF Railway’s Logistics Park Kansas City.

A 1.6-million-square-foot direct fulfillment center in Troy Township, northwestern Ohio plays a key part in Home Depot's interconnected retail strategy blending online and in-store sales.

U.S. developers of warehouses and distribution centers facing community opposition to permits should emphasize socioeconomic benefits and debunk outdated assumptions about health risks, says a veteran economist in California’s Inland Empire.

U.S. Northeast consumers’ growing appetite for e-commerce is cooking up a “red hot” industrial real estate market around the Port of New York and New Jersey — a trend great for developers and pricey for shippers, the head of an industrial real estate trade association said Wednesday.

U.S. retailers and manufacturers are slicing into inventories they built up during the West Coast port labor dispute, contributing to what's reported to be a softer third-quarter freight market. Stronger consumer spending may help shippers balance inventories as peak season demand picks up.

The same logistics strategy that propelled U.S. online retailer Zulily to greatness has led to its defeat, according to industry analysts, culminating this week in the company’s sale to a retail giant with a markedly different idea of how supply chains are run.