Yesterday, CoStar published an article entitled Institutional Investors Throwing Big Money Around Class A Quality Retail Property. The article highlights several recent large transactions that have taken place and interviews guys from CBRE (CBF), Marcus & Millichap and Jones Lange LaSalle (JLL) for opinions. A few of the points/quotes caught my attention and I thought I’d share my comments on the matter.

First off, M&M’s Bernie Haddigan comments on the fact that these recent transactions are all of class “A” assets and states the reason he believes high quality assets continue to trade (emphasis mine):