Green Touch Builders | Economist: Buy into Austin retail real estate now, but sell those hotels
22714
post-template-default,single,single-post,postid-22714,single-format-standard,ajax_fade,page_not_loaded,,select-theme-ver-3.8.1,wpb-js-composer js-comp-ver-6.1,vc_responsive
February 23, 2015 By SEO Admin

Economist: Buy into Austin retail real estate now, but sell those hotels

Looking for the right commercial real estate investment? The word is “retail.”

Ted Jones, chief economist for Stewart Title Guaranty Co., says the coming retail boom will blow the socks off any other real estate sector.

Retail real estate returned investors 12.4 percent in 2014. Yes, that’s across the U.S., but Austin stands to match or exceed forecasts in the retail sector.

One of the major reasons for that is a significant increase in the money supply. Households have paid down debt since the…