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Friends do not let friends buy centers a% 5 1 / 2 CAP

It's time to Las Vegas again (God, time goes fast when you're winning money) and 40,000 + + + of our closest friends gather to wheel, deal and have a great time to eat, drink and be merry be. What a fantastic business we are in, attention to eating, drinking and playing (either on your property or in the tables).

I "think" this is my 35th convention (very old) and while the current shows are not as fun or as wild as the conventions 30 years ago (but then again, I'm not as funny and wild as it was 30 years ago) are more productive, we all know what we are doing, or at least I believe, 30 years ago as winged. Most of you get to the scene every Sunday or Monday morning and leave sometime on Tuesday a loss in my opinion, you can stay until Wednesday to make the show more productive for all participants and increase the likelihood of a deal. I write this every year and every year the show is devastating on Wednesday after 11, so some things never change.

O Thus, from 2006 until now, has been an excellent year for all involved. In addition, the sample has been growing regional dealmaking faster than in the past, attendance increases of ten percent or more are not uncommon (I guess a 7% to 10% increase in Vegas, and had given 40,000 attendees last year that is a big increase) and some programs have had a 25% increase. The only negative on the horizon is the apparent slowdown in the lease.

This is a brand-or-break show for retailers and developers who need to open additional stores by Christmas 2006. If you can not get on the fast track at the end of this month it is likely that no store was open until 2007. In fact, the vast majority of offerings are 2006 and facts, which opened a few retailers to buy the rest of the year. But there are always a few stragglers who either need or want, another agreement for this year, so if they have places (and is there not much around) this is the time and place of hustle, otherwise the arrangements here are set to open in 2007.

I have to give credit leasing agents for being aggressive when it comes to scheduling meetings for the show. During the past month, I've been bombarded with emails and phone calls trying to set up meetings. In most cases, I refused, since the projects offered were not of interest to our customers. All the world is trying to fill their dance cards so they can impress the boss, but the meeting for the sake of a meeting does not make sense to me. Of course, if they were really smart he would leave a couple of hours every day just walking the show, making core networks and see what is new rather than spending unnecessary time in meetings unproductive. This year will be easier to come, when the convention will double in size and most of the exhibitors and attendees get lost or confused by the large size of the exhibition hall. Yes, having a larger exhibition area will benefit all, but I personally prefer to buy Ace Hardware for Home Depot, because the size is easier to maneuver. Of course I'm not as good of a selection, but sometimes I'm lazy.

Ranting the ... I will not go into detail Molinos Company and its problems, as we have all heard and read what is going on with that REIT (and probably more when will this be published), but I will comment on the desire of the mill to mix entertainment with retail, which seems to be working or in less profitable (and in a capitalist enterprise, if not profitable does not work). If you look at the history of entertainment in shopping centers, is a checkered past, mixed with a large number failures, whether Discovery Zone, Jeepers, indoor skate parks, roller coasters, or whatever, or the fact that the cinemas have been in and out of the projects are sold for over 20 years. One more year, the developers think theaters should be included in the mixture of a center next year are buried in the back without the viability (the only way theaters could become profitable was by the bankruptcy a few years ago).

Few entertainment complex that combines work conventional retail and I think that will change in the near future. The difference today from when I rinks wheel centers 30 years ago is that the costs And the stakes are considerably higher. When I made an agreement rink 30 years ago, the rent is usually under $ 4 GROSS and that was for a box of vanilla. Today At present, the factory project in northern New Jersey will cost one billion dollars to develop and no one knows if the entertainment aspect is the attraction and profitable as projected. Today it is not unusual entertainment development next mixed-use baseball parks, where costs run in the hundreds of millions of dollars, and again I do not think that works. (Of course, if you can convince some fools in the city to provide millions of taxpayers' money the project improves the probability of success). Entertainment is NOT a high sale per square feet generator and not have to be Einstein to understand that if your development costs are high, your income must be in the same league. In general, entertainment retailers can not afford high rents and that is where the problem lies. I also believe that industry is getting into trouble with many of the high-end mixed-use projects, especially home builders in the promotion of a cooling market housing. (For some reason can not justify spending $ 500,000 for an apartment located in a retail / office complex. Do not want to live where I can buy). One current problems of the industry is that the money is so easy to raise today, developers who sign non-recourse mortgages are willing to try any idea that might work (not his money, who cares because it receives the lease, development and management costs no matter what).

Changing subjects ... friends do not let friends buy centers of 5% or 6% CAP rate. Even with slowing leasing activity, the market for acquisition centers is still hot (why is another question) and while I predict a slowdown in sales (or an increase in the rates of CAP in the future) a select few centers are selling 5% of the CAP of 5.5%. And CAP 6% to 6.5% are not uncommon. Yes, millions have been made over the last five years by "flippers" that holds a center from six to 12 months and then rolled (with no increase in income) for more millions than they acquired center of. But with a slowdown in leasing and rising interest rates, acquisition centers on the basis of these numbers, it makes no sense. Remember the boom the dot.com, who busted quickly. I think the same may be true for retail real estate. Property prices have gotten so bad that some sellers normally have chosen to make a 1031 exchange now opt to pay taxes instead of buying a Walgreens 5% of the CAP, and when you're willing to pay taxes on acquisition Real estate there is a problem.

Of course, the other end of the spectrum is not as rosy as I hear a lot of developers complain that the costs are getting so high that only 10% to 11% return on new development. High risk low pay. The reason only 10% is good because CAP is 6% on existing assets. Either way, the mall leasing will be beaten by thousands of buyers and brokers who want to know if you have a center for sale.

Oh, as I have said in recent MyWay, the amount of space available has been substantially reduced in previous years due to robust economy. But the amount of new construction, especially the lifestyle centers and urban renewal, is up (even we are involved in a new urban development in Chicago) significantly over the previous year (merchant developers to keep the economy moving if we need more schools or not) so I recommend that the mall on foot lease to see what the trends are, where they are occurring and that the anchors. It is a good education and provides ideas for your project.

On a different note, I had dinner with two friends the other day, who are directors of real estate for business development. That's where their similarities end. One complained that although his company has more than 12 million square feet of retail, not given the support of the company executives; watching lease as an expense, not the main revenue generator for the company. Each time the proposed mass mailings, advertising, e-mail blasts or go to dealmaking shows local, the lower the cost and its belief that "marketing does not work. The other company has its own mail to all current tenants, in addition to their company database (which greatly promote the runners) and email use outside closer to the "ma & pas", sends thousands of e-mail blasts to promote vacancies and will be almost as many local shows as I dealmaking. His company has more than 20 million square feet with a vacancy factor 4%. The other company is at 6% and a vacancy factor of 7% consistently. What company would you rather be? Oh, the "smart" society looks vacancies as a cost, "and the longer the vacant higher the cost, so you're willing to make deals girlfriend for a long vacant property time while the "other" company says "this is our income is paid or not in our center."

Have a great show and productive.

PS Do not forget to stop by the RD / TKO / KIN stand at 667 Sixth Avenue on Monday after 4 pm for our annual Beer Blast. Booze, fun and friends, what more could you want? Oh, I forgot, gout, and I present my son Josh, who is entering the industry.

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