What will change, according to Murphy, are return expectations. "But I still think that there's still fairly healthy demand out there," Murphy said.

The one issue for would-be buyers is debt. While apartment owners have Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac for liquidity, net lease landlords rely on banks.

"Even though interest rates are at generational lows, the access to debt right now, even for good deals is a little hard to come by because a lot of the banks are really focused on the PPP program," Murphy said. "So even though they might want to be lending on these types of deals, their focus is elsewhere right now."

Murphy has heard that some credit unions are trying to do net lease deals. "They are very active right now trying to do deals that otherwise may have just gone to banks," he said.

Randy Blankstein, president of The Boulder Group, said "credit unions have picked up slight market share but not significant enough to make it a real trend yet."

Demand for net lease properties won't be uniform. Murphy said he sees durability in pharmacies, grocery stores, convenience stores and quick service restaurant concepts.

"It's going to be higher for those sectors that are still open and probably less so for some of those other ones that are going to be struggling," Murphy said. "That will get reflected in terms of cap rates."

Daycare centers, medical practices and fitness centers are probably going to trade at higher cap rates in six months.

"It will be a different world," Murphy said. "Maybe there will be some consolidation, but people are going to go back to the gym. People are going to be taking their kids back to daycare. People are going to go back to their physical therapist. People are going to go back to their chiropractor."

Murphy also predicted that the big box stores will survive. "If you look at the Best Buys, I don't see something like that going away," Murphy said. "They're kind of the last man standing in the electronics superstore space. I don't see them going anywhere."

If a retailer has been flirting with trouble for a while, the economic fallout from COVID-19 will likely force them into bankruptcy and out of business, according to Murphy.

"There are definitely a lot of retailers who will finally go away," Murphy said. "So there'll be some of that. But in the single tenant space, I'm not really sure what tenants would kind of fit into that. I don't know that we're going to lose any single tenant concepts, but maybe there will be some consolidation."

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