Massive industrial park complexes such as this one in Puebla could be impacted by the U.S. election. (PHOTO: Site Selection)
In this article the Wall Street Journal analyzes fallout on Mexico’s commercial real estate market from the outcome of the U.S. presidential election. While the election is still days away, the impact of the campaign and its outsized focus on Mexico already are being felt in the market for warehouses and factories in border towns like Juarez, Monterrey and Saltillo.
Leasing of industrial space along Mexico’s northern border has slowed sharply as uncertainty has grown over how the election’s outcome—particularly a victory by Republican candidate Donald Trump—would affect demand.
Mexico’s industrial real-estate market has exploded since the North American Free Trade Agreement took effect in 1994 and created a unified market between Canada, the U.S. and Mexico, making it easier for manufacturers to take advantage of cheap labor, low costs and less-stringent business regulations south of the border. In the past decade alone, it has nearly tripled to more than 710 million square feet of space.
But the election of Mr. Trump—who has called for the U.S. to pull out of NAFTA—could have a chilling effect on the market in the short term, experts say. If NAFTA were done away with, “on the Mexican side of the border a lot of the facilities will go vacant, rents per square foot will drop substantially,” said Tom Fullerton, an economics professor at the University of Texas at El Paso. “It’s not hard to imagine about a 30% to 40% vacancy rate collectively on both sides of the border.”
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Source: wsj.com
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