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Trademark Inks Financing, to Break Ground on Cypress Retail Center

Via Connect CRE · September 22, 2026
Compiled by Real Estate Trail Editorial · September 22, 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. Houston transaction velocity has been concentrated in industrial and Class A multifamily in the energy corridor and inner loop. Office remains a basis play. The asset class has effectively rerated as a defensive yield trade rather than a secularly challenged sector.

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Excerpt from Connect CRE:
Trademark Property Company and its partner, MetLife Investment Management, secured financing and will soon begin construction on Dunham Pointe, a 202,000 square foot retail and restaurant district in the Houston subur…
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