DSTs offer the ability to mitigate vacancy risk, defer capital gains, avoid capital expenditures and get out of the management business. Plus, a Q & A with DST expert, Nick Prassas.

For as long as I’ve lived in Durham, now nearly 27 years, North Durham has always been one of the more overlooked parts of the Triangle. It had an aging population, little new housing stock and household and income demographics that didn’t check enough boxes on retailers’ site selection criteria to sign a lease.