In short: "Love them" — the benchmark industrial REIT: A-rated balance sheet, global, embedded rent growth, development expertise, a growing data-center platform, "pulling all the levers." Watch FX, development exposure and a premium valuation, "but it's Prologis, absolutely a core holding."
Prologis is the world's biggest warehouse landlord — the benchmark for the industrial property sector — with a top-rated balance sheet, leases that step up rent automatically, and a growing side business building data centers. "It's Prologis … absolutely a core holding." The only knocks are foreign-currency exposure, the capital its development pipeline needs, and a premium price.
23:32Any thoughts on them? — Love them. It's prologous. You know what I mean? Like there's just nothing else to say. They are the benchmark of industrial rates. A-rated balance sheet, global, always embedded rent growth in their portfolio, development expertise, moving a lot, growing this data center platform.
In short: Baron (Real Estate Income Fund): held with EastGroup and Terreno on "a favorable multi-year outlook for demand, supply, and rent growth." The mechanical upside is a mark-to-market: "significant embedded growth potential from in-place rents that generally sit approximately 20% below market levels" — i.e. rent rises as existing leases roll, without needing new demand. The secular overlay: "e-commerce expansion, supply chain logistics, 'just-in-time' inventory strategies, and nearshoring/onshoring trends."
Prologis owns warehouses — the distribution buildings that e-commerce and modern supply chains depend on. Baron holds it with two smaller industrial landlords for a straightforward reason.
The rents on existing leases sit roughly 20% below what the same space would fetch today. As those leases expire and are renewed at market rates, income rises without a single new building or a single extra tenant. On top of that sits slower-moving demand: online retail, more complex logistics, companies holding more inventory closer to customers, and manufacturing moving back toward North America.
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In short: "Big Bad Prologis," the largest US industrial landlord — trading above net asset value, which is exactly why it can bid for SEGRO at a discount to NAV (second bid lodged the morning of the taping). Illustrates his premium-buys-discount arbitrage; not a view on Prologis itself.
10:26So yes, for sure consensus is always hard to push against. But if you stick to your process which in part is valuation driven for us the valuations just became too compelling and we had an example today we made an investment in a UK real estate company called Seag and they got a takeover offer from Big Bad Prologes the largest US industrial real estate company. They were trading above net asset value.
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