AutoZone NNN Properties For Sale: Listings, Cap Rates and 1031 Buyer Guide

This page tracks AutoZone net lease properties observed for sale in the United States, refreshed automatically from listing broker materials, checks the tenant against the investment grade threshold, and walks through how to evaluate one before you make an offer. If you want the corporate credit story, the AutoZone credit rating and cap rate profile covers it. This page is about the inventory: what is on the market, what it is asking, how the pricing breaks down by term, state and lease type, and how a buyer, especially a 1031 exchange buyer, should work through it.

AutoZone NNN Properties For Sale: Latest Listings

Up to twelve of the most recently listed single-tenant AutoZone properties with published pricing. Open any listing and register for full property data, including the address, location map and an IG summary with due diligence questions.

Showing the 12 most recently listed of 27 observed listings; listings without a published asking price and cap rate are not shown here.

Search all 27 AutoZone properties on the market

Market observations aggregated from listing broker materials; not offerings by Investment Grade Income Property, LP. Asking price, cap rate and NOI as published by the listing party. Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed. Verify all figures before relying on them.

What You Are Actually Buying

AutoZone stores are company-operated, so listings carry a corporate lease from a large publicly traded issuer. The format is parts retail with commercial delivery rather than a service bay operation, which keeps the building conventional and the second-generation pool broad.

Buildings typically run 5,000 to 8,000 square feet for parts retail and 1,500 to 4,000 square feet with service bays for quick lube and tire formats. Service bay buildings are more specialized than parts stores, which affects who can occupy them next.

Across the current inventory, roughly 24% of listings with a reported build year were delivered in the last four years, and about 7% are marketed as NN, NN+ or simply Net, which usually means the landlord retains roof and structure and sometimes parking and HVAC. Read the lease rather than the brochure headline. If the rating framework behind investment grade tenancy is unfamiliar, the investment grade guide explains it.

AutoZone Cap Rate, Price and Term Distribution

These tables are generated from the live inventory and refresh every few hours. Use them to place any individual listing in context rather than judging an asking cap rate in isolation.

How to read the pricing

The spread inside the AutoZone inventory runs from 4.25% to 6.80%, against a median of 5.35%. Three variables help explain much of that spread, although these tables describe asking prices and do not isolate any single effect. First, remaining term, shown in the term table above. Second, geography, shown in the state table below. Third, lease structure and real estate quality: longer terms, stronger guarantors, absolute NNN structures and strong access generally ask lower cap rates, while leases with landlord responsibilities (NN) and secondary access generally ask higher ones; ground leases can price on either side, depending on rent and land value. When a listing sits far outside the band its term and state would predict, there is usually a reason in the lease, and it is worth finding before you write the offer rather than after.

Where AutoZone NNN Properties Are For Sale

Current inventory spans 15 states. Differences between states in the table below can reflect local buyer demand, growth, taxes and the mix of lease terms in each state’s listings as much as anything about the tenant, and small state samples can shift quickly.

Shows the 12 states with the most listings, out of 15 states with AutoZone listings. Search all listings for the rest.

AutoZone as a 1031 Exchange Replacement Property

The median asking price in the current AutoZone inventory is $1.97M, and about 59% of listings fall in the middle of the market between 1.5 and 3.5 million dollars. Whether that fits an exchange depends on the equity coming out of the relinquished property and on the debt you need to replace.

• Identify from the live list, not a stale one. Listings move. Identify two or three specific properties under the three-property rule and keep a backup that is realistically still available.
• Debt replacement is the trap. If the relinquished property carried a mortgage, you must replace that debt or add cash to fully defer gain. Where lender pricing sits above the asking cap rate, financed acquisitions run negative leverage.
• Term should match your hold. If you plan to hold through the next exchange or pass the asset to heirs, prioritize term and options over 25 basis points of cap rate.
• Certainty of closing matters more than price. A clean estoppel, a current lease and no pending relocation are worth paying for on a 45-day clock.

For identification mechanics, timelines and the NNN, DST and UPREIT alternatives, see the 1031 exchange into investment grade property guide.

AutoZone NNN Due Diligence Checklist

These are the items that change the value of an AutoZone listing and are rarely resolved by the offering memorandum.

• Lease signatory and franchise status. Several brands in this category mix corporate stores with franchised or licensed operators. Confirm which you are buying.
• Environmental. Service bays involve oil, solvents and sometimes in-ground lifts or waste tanks. Obtain Phase I and confirm who carries remediation obligation under the lease.
• Building reuse. Assess the parts-retail floor plate, storefront, storage and loading space, parking, zoning and market rent for the next user. Add service-bay risks only if the specific listing actually has bays.
• Term and escalations. Verify remaining term, escalation schedule and option structure.

How Investment Grade Works With AutoZone Buyers

Investment Grade Income Property, LP is a licensed commercial real estate brokerage providing national advisory on acquisitions and dispositions of net lease property, with Broker of Record co-listing partnerships in all 50 states. On an AutoZone acquisition we screen the live inventory against your criteria, pull the lease abstract behind any listing you want to pursue, benchmark the asking cap rate against the distribution above, and negotiate on your side of the table through closing. On most transactions there is no separate fee to the buyer because compensation is paid from the transaction by the listing side. Where that is not the case we disclose it in writing before you engage.

Owners of existing AutoZone properties can use this page as a valuation benchmark. If you are weighing a sale, an off-market disposition to a qualified 1031 buyer often closes faster and with less retrading than a broad marketing process.

Frequently Asked Questions

• AutoZone Credit Rating and NNN Cap Rate Profile
• NNN Cap Rates 2026: Tenant by Tenant Benchmarks
• 1031 Exchange Into Investment Grade Property
• Investment Grade Credit Tenant Ratings
• Search All Observed NNN Listings