News & Press Releases
Company announcements and press releases from SLB Capital Advisors.
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August 27, 2026
SLB Capital Advisors Releases Q2'26 Sale Leaseback Market Update
The sale leaseback market's early-year momentum carried into the second quarter, even as broader M&A activity cooled from its record first-quarter pace.
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May 26, 2026
SLB Capital Advisors Releases Q1'26 Sale Leaseback Market Update
The lag effect between elevated M&A activity and subsequent sale leaseback demand, a thesis the firm has advanced over recent quarters, found support in the first quarter of 2026, even as clear headwinds emerged.
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March 16, 2026
Sale Leaseback Market Gains Momentum in 2025 as M&A Activity Returns
The latest sale leaseback market update, compiled and published by SLB Capital Advisors, showed momentum in the sale leaseback market on the back of returning M&A activity.
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March 10, 2026
SLB Capital Advisors Releases Q4'25 Sale Leaseback Market Update
A historically familiar pattern appeared to be reemerging as 2026 began, with strong private equity deal flow through the second half of 2025 accelerating further into the new year, a dynamic that has historically preceded increased corporate real estate monetization in the quarters that follow.
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November 24, 2025
SLB Capital Advisors Releases Q3'25 Sale Leaseback Market Update
North American M&A activity reached a new quarterly deal value record in the third quarter of 2025, with deal count climbing to its highest level since early 2022, a pattern that historically has preceded periods of heightened sale leaseback activity, even though the timing of that follow through tends to lag broader M&A trends.
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August 25, 2025
SLB Capital Advisors Releases Q2'25 Sale Leaseback Market Update
Momentum built into the back half of 2025, with clients across private equity, investment banking, and corporate sectors reporting a pickup in activity, supported by a relatively strong economy, expectations of lower rates, and clarity emerging from trade negotiations out of Washington.
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May 22, 2025
SLB Capital Advisors Releases Q1'25 Sale Leaseback Market Update
Heading into the back half of 2025, significant questions remained around tariff clarity, recession risk, and the timing of a broader M&A rebound, though sale leaseback capital continued to stand apart from other capital sources by remaining consistently available at attractive pricing throughout the uncertainty.
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March 10, 2025
SLB Capital Advisors Releases Full Year 2024 and Q4'24 Sale Leaseback Market Update
Momentum built through the back half of 2025, with larger transactions returning to the market and pointing to continued resilience heading into 2026.
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November 20, 2024
SLB Capital Advisors Releases Q3'24 Sale Leaseback Market Update
Heading into 2025, market signals remained mixed, with a modest M&A recovery gaining momentum even as long-term rates climbed back toward mid-summer levels following their initial post-Fed-cut decline, and corporate bankruptcies on pace to reach a fourteen year high after a prolonged period of elevated interest rates.
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August 26, 2024
SLB Capital Advisors Releases Q2'24 Sale Leaseback Market Update
Heading into the back half of 2024, market dynamics are being shaped by a favorable macro backdrop — easing inflation, a cooling labor market, and the increasing likelihood of a September rate cut.
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May 29, 2024
SLB Capital Advisors Releases Q1'24 Sale Leaseback Market Update
Early 2024 saw renewed volatility as persistent inflation and resilient consumer demand pushed the 10-year Treasury yield sharply higher, tempering the optimism that had emerged at the start of the year.
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March 27, 2024
SLB Advises on Sale Leasebacks For Leading EV Fast Charging Solutions Provider EVgo
EVgo Leverages Strategic Capital Model to Grow Fast Charging Footprint.
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March 7, 2024
SLB Capital Advisors Releases Full Year 2023 and Q4'23 Sale Leaseback Market Update
Deal timelines stretched through late 2023, as divergent value expectations, a challenging financing environment, and rising interest rates, including an October spike in the 10-year Treasury, weighed on both M&A and sale leaseback activity.
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December 4, 2023
SLB Capital Advisors Releases Q3'23 Sale Leaseback Market Update
The market continued to grapple with a "higher for longer" interest rate narrative in the third quarter of 2023, as structural factors such as fading deflationary pressures from outsourcing and the green transition suggested elevated rates could persist longer than many anticipated.
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September 5, 2023
SLB Capital Advisors Releases Q2'23 Sale Leaseback Market Update
Rising rates remained a defining theme in the second quarter of 2023, with the 10-year Treasury and SOFR both climbing further, though signs of moderating consumer inflation and falling energy costs offered some counterbalance.
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May 31, 2023
SLB Capital Advisors Releases Q1'23 Sale Leaseback Market Update
Even as cap rates rose 100 to 150 basis points over the prior year, they rose far less than interest rates, which increased more than 400 basis points for some middle-market credits, making sale leaseback financing an increasingly compelling cost of capital solution relative to traditional debt.
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March 17, 2023
2022 Sale Leaseback Volumes Break Record
The latest sale leaseback market update, compiled and published by SLB Capital Advisors, showed record breaking sale leaseback volumes for 2022.
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March 16, 2023
SLB Capital Advisors Releases Full Year 2022 and Q4'22 Sale Leaseback Market Update
2022 unfolded against a backdrop of significant macroeconomic headwinds, including a sharp rise in interest rates, declining M&A activity, volatile public equity markets, geopolitical tensions, and a highly inflationary environment.
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November 27, 2022
SLB Capital Advisors Releases Q3'22 Sale Leaseback Market Update
Rising interest rates continued to widen cap rates in the third quarter of 2022, though with loan and bond yields approaching or exceeding 10%, sale leasebacks became inside not just many companies' weighted average cost of capital, but their debt financing costs as well, making the structure an increasingly attractive alternative to traditional financing.
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September 20, 2022
SLB Capital Advisors Hires Rowland Yang
9/20/22 - New hire a key addition following the sale leaseback market's record Q2 '22 transaction volume.
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August 30, 2022
SLB Capital Advisors Releases Q2'22 Sale Leaseback Market Update
Buyer caution emerged at the start of the second quarter of 2022 and persisted into the third, as many buyers struggled to lock in debt financing, which in turn made pricing assets appropriately more challenging amid rising interest rates, inflation, and an overall risk off environment.
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May 31, 2022
SLB Capital Advisors Releases Q1'22 Sale Leaseback Market Update
While the data in this report predates the more cautious sale leaseback environment that emerged shortly after, the first quarter of 2022 saw general middle market M&A volume decline from Q4'21 levels, though activity remained well above prior year figures, with average leverage multiples ticking down slightly, suggesting more conservative lender views on the horizon.
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May 24, 2022
SLB Capital Advisors Successfully Advises Publicly Traded NYC-Based Community Bank Ponce Bank on Multi-Asset Sale Leaseback
Deal demonstrated value of unlocking capital and material impact on book value; market conditions for sale leasebacks favorable for well-capitalized banks.
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March 23, 2022
2021 Sale Leaseback Volume Climbs 92%
The latest quarterly sale leaseback market update, compiled and published by SLB Capital Advisors, a sale leaseback advisory firm, showed markedly higher deal volume during 2021.
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March 15, 2022
SLB Capital Advisors Releases Full Year 2021 and Q4'21 Sale Leaseback Market Update
Entering 2022, inflation, interest rate hikes, and the war in Ukraine emerged as prominent macro concerns, though the sale leaseback market showed few signs of slowing after a banner 2021 that closely tracked a record setting year for M&A more broadly.
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November 22, 2021
SLB Capital Advisors Releases Q3'21 Sale Leaseback Market Update
The market continued its momentum toward a record year in the third quarter of 2021, driven in part by a rush to close deals ahead of potential capital gains tax changes and the strong linkage between owned real estate and middle market M&A targets more broadly.
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September 20, 2021
SLB Capital Advisors Releases Q2'21 Sale Leaseback Market Update
Continuing strong fundamentals, including low interest rates, outperformance in net lease REIT equities, and an over-active M&A market, made for what SLB Capital Advisors described to the Wall Street Journal as "the singular best moment to execute a sale leaseback" in the firm's collective experience, a dynamic expected to hold through the end of 2021 and into early 2022.
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July 12, 2021
SLB Capital Advisors Releases Q1'21 Sale Leaseback Market Update
The first half of 2021 brought a convergence of exceptional market fundamentals, as low interest rates and outperforming equity markets lowered the cost of capital for many buyers, while pent up post-COVID demand, an over-active M&A market, and an influx of new sale leaseback buyers combined to compress cap rates across many sectors.
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May 25, 2021
SLB Capital Advisors Releases Full Year 2020 and Q4'20 Sale Leaseback Market Update
Roughly a year into the pandemic, the sale leaseback market showed clear signs of recovery, buoyed by significant pent up buyer demand and an increasingly active M&A market following a subdued 2020.
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April 8, 2021
SLB Capital Advisors Launched By Team Of Veteran Investment Banking, Real Estate Professionals
The Firm Focuses on Sale Leaseback Transactions for Private Equity Firms and Corporate Real Estate Owners Leveraging Investment Banking Experience and Corporate Finance Expertise to Unlock Capital, Strengthen Corporate Balance Sheets and Enhance Private Equity Returns.
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