What to Watch in 2025: Brighter prospects for retail property sales

The Thomas Lake Shopping Center in Mill Creek, Washington, is one of 93 grocery-anchored shopping centers owned by San Diego-based Retail Opportunity Investments Corp. In a November deal that signaled the return of institutional investors to the retail property sector, a Blackstone investment fund agreed to buy all outstanding common shares of ROIC for $17.50 per share in an all-cash transaction valued at about $4 billion.
Confluence of positive factors should push retail property sales higher