Westwood Financial Acquires 23,300 SF Shopping Center in Burleson, Texas
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. Dallas-Fort Worth continues to absorb the largest multifamily delivery pipeline in the country. Industrial along the I-35 corridor is clearing at competitive basis, and selective office is finding bids at deep discounts to replacement. The asset class has effectively rerated as a defensive yield trade rather than a secularly challenged sector.
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BURLESON, TEXAS — Westwood Financial, a California-based retail investment firm, has acquired South Town Crossing II, a 23,300-square-foot shopping center in Burleson, a southern suburb of Fort Worth. The center was f…
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