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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.