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Blue Vault Discusses Velocity Ledger Blockchain-Enabled Trading Platform

Blue Vault recently discussed the coming Velocity Ledger (“VL”) blockchain-enabled trading platform for nontraded REIT shares, DSTs, limited partnership interests in joint ventures, and eventually, individual commercial real estate properties and portfolios, with two of the company’s principals, Jon Haahr of Silver Portal Capital and Julian Jacobson of Fundamental Interactions (“FI”).

Industrial Income Trust Inc. recently completed its liquidation of remaining assets, which met Blue Vault’s definition of a full-cycle event. What was the estimated annualized return to its earliest investors who invested distributions in additional shares via the REIT’s DRIP?

Answer:  According to Blue Vault’s Fifth Edition Nontraded REIT Full-Cycle Performance Study, early investors had an annualized rate of return over the life of the REIT of 8.10% if they reinvested all distributions via the DRIP. 

CIM Group Acquires Cole Capital from VEREIT

VEREIT, Inc. (NYSE: VER) on February 1 announced that it closed the sale of Cole Capital (“Cole”) to an affiliate of CIM Group. VEREIT is a publicly-traded real estate investment trust formerly known as American Realty Capital Properties Inc.

Bluerock Value Exchange Appoints Josh Hoffman as President

Over the course of his career, [Josh Hoffman] has successfully completed more than 65 sponsored 1031 like-kind exchange security offering programs representing more than $1.4 billion in property value and more than 7.8 million square feet.

Update: United Development Funding IV to Settle Shareholder Lawsuit

In an article posted on Blue Vault’s website in December, 2017, entitled “How An Attack on a Nontraded REIT Sponsor Made a Hedge Fund Manager $60 Million,” we referred readers to a lawsuit filed by United Development Funding LP and its related companies accusing hedge fund manager J. Kyle Bass and his closely held company Hayman Capital Management, L.P., of perpetrating a “short-and-distort” scheme by spreading false and damaging information about UDF in order to drive down the company’s stock price and profit by covering their short positions by buying shorted shares at much lower prices.

Carter Validus Mission Critical REIT II, Inc. Acquires Approximately $73 Million in Healthcare and Data Center Real Estate in the Month of December 2017

Carter Validus Mission Critical REIT II, Inc. (“CV Mission Critical REIT II”), a non-traded real estate investment trust focused on assembling a portfolio of high-quality data center and healthcare real estate, acquired properties during December 2017 for an aggregate contract purchase price of approximately $73 million, excluding closing costs and related fees.