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In a sale-leaseback, a company sells its real estate to an investor like W. P. Carey for cash and simultaneously enters into a long-term lease.

Let’s start with the foundation: if you’re unfamiliar with the term sale-leaseback, you should go here. For a more focused explanation relating to industrial properties, let’s turn to Erik Foster, principal with Avison Young and head of the firm’s industrial capital markets practice. “A sale-leaseback is when a user of real estate who owns their premises chooses to monetize that real estate. They stay in [the property], occupy it for a long term and sell it to a third-party owner who becomes

W. P. Carey (NYSE: WPC) is a long-term investor specializing in corporate sale-leasebacks that does not look to sell assets for short-term gains.

Sale-leaseback of two light industrial manufacturing facilities located in Poland, triple-net leased to Purmo Group, a leading European designer, manufacturer and supplier of radiators, underfloor heating systems and related components.

W. P. Carey completes the development of a 213,000-square-foot Class A warehouse facility in the Atlanta metropolitan area—its first carbon-neutral construction initiative. The project was designed to minimize both operational and embodied carbon emissions.

As more corporate and private equity firms have turned to sale-leasebacks, deal volume has continued to grow compared with 10 or 20 years ago. That growth has caught the attention of institutional investors, such as J.P. Morgan Asset Management and Goldman Sachs, who may have previously viewed net lease or sale-leaseback as a niche asset class. “I think as the market has grown, those asset managers have realized that there’s real scale to this market and a real opportunity even for the largest

Tyler Swann joined W. P. Carey’s Investments Team in September 2013 and currently serves as Managing Director, Co-Head of North American Investments. In his role, Tyler is responsible for driving W. P. Carey’s North American investment activity, including the sourcing, underwriting and structuring of North American transactions, as well as managing a group of investment team members. Since joining W. P. Carey, Tyler has focused on sale-leaseback and build-to-suit transactions and the

W. P. Carey is committed to our two core principles that have guided us since our founding: Investing for the Long Run® and Doing Good While Doing Well®.

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