Space available for leasing at U.S. local shopping centers will decline next year for the first time since 2005 as a growing economy spurs retailer expansion, commercial-property brokerage CBRE Group Inc. said.
The availability rate, a measure of space being marketed and ready for tenant construction within a year, will fall to 12.4 percent for neighborhood and community shopping centers at the end of 2012. That’s down from a peak of 13.3 percent in the second quarter of this year, according to a forecast from CBRE Econometric Advisors, a unit of Los Angeles-based CBRE Group.
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