Kite Realty Trust Trades Grocery-Anchored White Plains Retail for $50M
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. The asset class has effectively rerated as a defensive yield trade rather than a secularly challenged sector.
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- Disclosed retail deal value tracked in September 2026: $2.4B across 38 reported transactions. All Retail coverage →
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JLL Capital Markets secured the $50-million sale of City Center, a 361,948-square-foot, grocery-anchored retail property located in White Plains. on behalf of seller Kite Realty Trust. JLL also arranged acquisition fi…
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