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Manvel Investor Planning 1M-SF Retail Center, Medical Campus

Via Connect CRE · October 7, 2026
Compiled by Real Estate Trail Editorial · October 7, 2026

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.

Editorial analysis · Real Estate Trail Editorial

On the RET wire

  • Disclosed retail deal value tracked in October 2026: $5.6B across 32 reported transactions. All Retail coverage →

Computed from Real Estate Trail’s own tracked coverage

Excerpt from Connect CRE:
Tharaldson Investors is pursuing an ambitious retail development in Manvel that is slated to include a 1 million-square-foot shopping center with retail and restaurant space and a 50-acre, $931 million MD Anderson Can…
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