In this #Highlights episode, we look back at our conversations with real estate investors Vick Mehta of Indvestia Capital and Philip Block, of LBX Investments. Vick emphasizes that retail real estate is not dead but, at the moment, it has changed and shifted. Despite the pandemic, Vick says that retail spaces are still essential. 

Philip talks about the opportunities he found in retail investing, specifically shopping centers. Philip shares that when many analysts a few years back claimed that the retail industry is down, he and his partner saw an opportunity in this asset class. Listen now and learn more about the opportunities in the retail space and how retail real estate is faring in today’s market!

Key Points From This Episode: 

• Examples of pandemic-resilient or internet-resilient tenants.
• The average building size for retail real estate.
• How to add value to your retail real estate property that will pay a healthy return to your investors.
• How to determine the value and type of tenants for the retail property.
• The ideal location and tenants for retail real estate.
• How is there value in having some vacancy?
• How investors got through the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic.
• With the rise of E-commerce and M-commerce, is it true that retail real estate is dying?
• The impact of Covid-19 to retail real estate investors and how it affected their acquisitions.
• The benefits of cost segregation to retail property owners.

Tweetables:

“There’s always gonna be internet-resilient tenants or pandemic-resilient tenants that require space.” –Vick Mehta

“If you buy good real estate, and you don't overleverage it, you do well at all times, right? You weather bad times fine. And in good times, everything's great.” –Philip Block

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Vick Mehta on LinkedIn

Indvestia Capital website

WS927: Retail Real Estate Is Not Dead with Vick Mehta

Philip Block on LinkedIn

LBX Investment website

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