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Flex Warehouse Park Small-Bay Industrial

Markets

We study markets before we commit to them.

Our criteria stay consistent even as the specific geographies evolve. This page sets out how we evaluate a market, not a claim about where we already own.

Market Criteria

Four screens applied to every market we consider.

A market has to clear all four. Strong small-business demand in a market where we cannot buy at a sensible basis is a market we study and do not enter.

Small-Business Density

The tenant base is generated by local economic activity, so we start with the businesses rather than the buildings.

  • Formation and survival rates across trades and service sectors
  • Employment concentration in construction, field services and light manufacturing
  • Household and commercial growth that sustains contractor demand
  • Presence of an established owner-operator business community

Supply Constraint

We want markets where functional small-format space is genuinely difficult to add.

  • Existing small-bay inventory and its age profile
  • What construction and land economics realistically permit
  • Industrial land availability and zoning posture
  • Conversion pressure from competing higher-value uses

Rent and Basis

A favourable market at the wrong price is not an opportunity.

  • Achievable small-unit rents relative to replacement cost
  • Basis at which existing assets can realistically be acquired
  • Spread between in-place and market rent across the stock
  • Operating cost structure, including taxes and insurance

Depth for Density

We prefer several assets in one market to single assets in several markets.

  • Addressable inventory sufficient to build a cluster
  • Transaction activity that supports continued acquisition
  • Ability to spread leasing and management across nearby assets
  • Local vendor and contractor capacity to service a portfolio
Aerial view of a small-bay industrial park within a wider light-industrial corridor

Where We Look

Infill and well-connected suburban positions, close to the businesses that occupy the space.

Geographic Focus

Growing US markets with durable small-business activity.

Our focus is the United States, in infill and well-connected suburban locations where the tenant base already operates.

We are deliberately not publishing a map of target markets. Market selection is an active part of the strategy and a live output of the screens above — publishing a fixed list would misrepresent both how we work and where we are.

If you are a broker or owner with small-bay industrial in a market you believe fits these criteria, we would rather hear about it than have you assume it is outside our scope.

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Relationships

Tell us about your market.

Local knowledge is the part of this business that cannot be bought. We value relationships with brokers and owners who know their submarket better than any dataset does.