Christopher Rising

CEO of Rising Realty Partners, with 30 years in commercial real estate. The Real Market is his take on cities, capital, and the business of buildings — plain talk, no spin.

A long low shallow-bay multi-tenant industrial building at dusk with a row of roll-up dock doors

The Yield You Have to Work For

Bonds are the honest baseline I measure everything against. Here's why I still take the harder yield in small multi-tenant industrial.

Downtown Los Angeles Forgot Who Pays the Rent

When the city talks about bringing downtown back, it talks about the big things. A stadium. A convention center. A subsidized tower with a famous tenant. The conversation is always about the marquee — the project you can cut a ribbon in front of. It is almost never about the law