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One of Westwood’s pillars is to educate and empower our clients with the most current, accurate, and reliable information based on decades of triple-net (NNN) industry experience, formal education, and market knowledge. The following NNN lease investment and commercial real estate articles, success stories, and blogs will answer many of your questions and provide the knowledge you need to move forward with your NNN lease investing goals.
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14 Commercial Real Estate Terms You Need to Know
When buying or leasing investment properties, the commercial real estate vocabulary can be intimidating and quite challenging to navigate. Maybe you've heard of commercial real estate terms like “tenant improvement,” or “usable square footage,” but you don’t know what...
What Is CAM (Common Area Maintenance) Reconciliation?
What are CAM charges? How can you determine which costs the landlord and tenant must pay? Read this informative article to find out.
A Quick Guide to Calculating Residual Land and Property Value
What is Residual Land Valuation & Why is it Useful? If you wish to know the value of land with development potential, you would use the residual method of determining that value. Unlike other methods of estimating value, it is used at the beginning stages of...
Profitability Index vs Net Present Value: Which One Is Better?
Wondering what the difference is between the profitability index and net present value?
Actually, both measures give an investment property’s future cash flow. However net present value gives you the dollar difference, while the profitability index gives the ratio. Here’s how it’s calculated:
Wendy’s NNN Property with 11-Year Lease Sells Fast
Wendy’s, Richmond, VA Closing date: August 12, 2020 Price: $2,275,000 Cap rate: 6.20% A long-standing Westwood Net Lease Advisors’ client who owns many fast-food QSRs contacted Chris Schellin, President of Westwood, to help him sell a Wendy’s triple-net (NNN) property...
NNN Investor Secures Dollar General Right Before a Category 4 Hurricane
Dollar General, Sulphur, LA Closing date: August 12, 2020 Price: $1,577,000 Cap rate: 6.25% In 2019, a CRE investor who engaged Westwood to help her use the 1031 exchange to purchase her first two triple-net (NNN) properties – a Dollar General in Georgia and a KFC in...
Best NNN Investment Opportunities for 2021
COVID-19 has changed business as we know it – brands and companies that seemed immune to economic, political, or other types of turmoil were, surprisingly, some of the hardest hit. However, after scrambling to meet the new CDC guidelines, consumer demands, and...
How Long Does It Take to Do a 1031 Exchange?
Have you been thinking of utilizing a 1031 exchange to sell your current commercial real estate but you’re not sure if your property qualifies and how long it will take? You’re not alone. We get asked these questions every day, so our team at Westwood Net Lease...
NNN Cap Rate Spread & Debt Yield
When making a buying decision, many commercial real estate (CRE) investors analyze the cap rate to interest rate spread (also known as the cap rate spread), their cash flow related to debt service, and how both will influence their return on investment. But how...
Buyer Trades Residential Rental for 2 NNN Dollar General Properties
#1. Dollar General, Gresham, WI Closing date: August 7, 2020 Price: 1,170,000 Cap rate: 6.75% #2. Dollar General, Weston, OH Closing date: October 23, 2020 Price: $1,262,636 Cap rate: 6.60% 1031 Exchange Nets $162,309 Annually A California-based buyer, who was selling...
When is the Best Time to Sell my NNN?
You have worked your NNN investment exit strategy and stayed the course, now it’s time to sell … or is it? Maybe you see an opportunity to sell a little earlier than planned. How do you know? In this blog, we cover the main factors that help determine the best time to...
Biden Presidency: What it Means for NNN Investing & Tax Codes
As the nation heads toward a likely Biden presidency in 2021, there is plenty of financial uncertainty for commercial real estate investors. Our intent in this blog is to simplify and outline the potential implications of a Biden presidency and what it could mean for...
How to Know Which Type of NNN Property is Right for You
You’ve decided to invest in a triple-net (NNN) lease property. So, how do you find a property that fits your lifestyle, satisfies your financial goals, and balances your portfolio? How do you know which type of NNN property is right for you? To answer this question,...
Westwood’s Featured Tenant of the Quarter – Aspen Dental
Aspen Dental Investment Properties Aspen Dental began as a dental lab, Upstate Dental, in 1964 in East Syracuse, New York. In 1981, Upstate merged its lab services with centralized management services and created a new dental support organization (DSO) concept, which...
New NNN Investors Close on Dollar General Property in 20 Days
Dollar General, Byhalia, MS Closing date: August 5, 2020 Price: $1,199,000 Cap rate: 7.00% Exchange of Single-Family Rental for No-Maintenance NNN Property A Nevada-based husband and wife, new to commercial real estate (CRE) investing, reached out to Chris Schellin,...
Multiple Offers Over List Price Result in Additional $82k on Hardee’s Property
Hardees, St. Petersburg, FL Closing date: July 15, 2020 Price: $1,828,267 Cap rate: 6.50% Bidding Situation Escalates Final Sale Price A long-standing client of ten years reached out to Chris Schellin, President at Westwood Net Lease Advisors, to list the Hardees in...
What is Involved in Due Diligence on a NNN Property?
When considering triple-net (NNN) lease investing, how do you ensure you buy the right property for your financial goals and lifestyle without losing money and wasting time? By performing upfront due diligence on the property, tenant, and lease. This precise...
Sale of Vacant Retail Center Turns Into $86k/Year NOI from Family Dollar
Family Dollar, Pensacola, FL July 15, 2020 $1,120,000 7.67% cap rate $86,000 NOI A St. Louis area investor sold an underperforming, vacant shopping center and contacted Mike Kocur at Westwood Net Lease Advisors to help him reinvest the profits from the sale using a...
Can I Use a 1031 Exchange on a Primary Residence?
In a recent article, we answered the question about whether a triple-net (NNN) lease investor can use a 1031 exchange for new construction, to which the answer is yes, with conditions. In this week’s post, we’ll cover another 1031 question we get asked often, “Can I...
NNN Buyers Take a 1031 Exchange Risk: Purchasing a Pre-Construction Firestone
Firestone Complete Auto Care, Huntersville, NC Closing date: July 13, 2020 Price: $3.663 million Cap rate: 4.96% Partner-owners of an Atlanta-area Walgreens property with ten years left on the triple-net (NNN) lease decided to sell it to diversify their real estate...
Can I Use 1031 Exchange for New Construction Investment Property?
Most commercial real estate investors are familiar with the 1031 exchange tax benefit, which allows investors to sell one investment property and buy another while deferring the capital gains tax on the profit from the sale. However, what if you want to buy a NNN...
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