First Washington Realty Sells 174,428 SF Shopping Center in San Luis Obispo, California
Why this matters
Retail has become a quiet outperformer. A decade of effectively zero new development has left necessity-driven, grocery-anchored, and Sun Belt strip product with negligible vacancy and re-leasing spreads in the high single digits. Cap rates have compressed in step, and the bid for stabilized portfolios is again broad across REITs, pension funds, and institutional core-plus capital. Los Angeles is working asset-by-asset through an extended office reset. Hospitality on the West Side and selective industrial in the South Bay are where capital is currently moving; downtown Class B remains in price discovery. The asset class has effectively rerated as a defensive yield trade rather than a secularly challenged sector.
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SAN LUIS OBISPO, CALIF. — First Washington Realty has sold Marigold Center, a grocery-anchored shopping center in San Luis Obispo, about 200 miles north of Los Angeles, to Nuveen Real Estate for $58.2 million. Gleb Lv…
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