Warehouse real estate users get creative amid tight, competitive industrial market

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20 Oct 2021


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With record-low vacancy, rising rental rates, intense competition and continued supply-chain headaches, tenants in industrial real estate are having to rethink their strategies.

It takes 80 days for goods to cross the Pacific Ocean and be unloaded, which is nearly twice as long as it took before the pandemic, according to a recent report by commercial real estate firm Lee & Associates. On some days in early October, there were 75 container ships waiting to dock at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.

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