In a new article from the Wall Street Journal titled For Real-Estate Investors, It's Out With the Old, Eliot Brown explores how the global hunt for yield is rippling through the U.S. property market. With foreign investors and pension funds push up prices for top-quality, low-vacancy office buildings, several publicly traded real-estate investment trusts such as Boston Properties are piling into new projects offering better growth potential, even if it means more risk. An excerpt follows:
"Most of the REITs are pivoting to development or heavy redevelopment as an investment strategy," said Jed Reagan, an analyst at Green Street Advisors Inc. who follows office landlords. "There's so much aggressive capital out there that's looking for a home," he said.
Boston Properties' latest deal, for the buildings at 601 Lexington Ave. in Manhattan and 100 Federal St. and Atlantic Wharf in Boston, puts the company on track for more than $2 billion in property sales this year, up from $1.3 billion in 2013. At the same time, it had $3.5 billion of projects under development in the second quarter, including a San Francisco site that is to be the second-tallest tower west of the Mississippi River.
A year earlier the company developed $2.5 billion of projects, its highest level in at least a decade.
"We're certainly more bullish on development than buying buildings," Mr. Zuckerman said in an interview in his Midtown Manhattan office.
"Older buildings are trading at higher prices per square foot than where we can build," added Owen Thomas, the former Morgan Stanley executive who became Boston Properties' chief executive last year.
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