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Stacy Chitty: Zombie REITs

Some nontraded REITs continue to live on, despite having paid no distributions for many years and seeing their net asset values decline over time. Watch Stacy Chitty talk about one zombie REIT in this Blue Vault Minute.

T. Rowe Price and Oak Hill Advisors Launch “OCREDIT” Private Credit Fund

T. Rowe Price and Oak Hill Advisors (OHA) are pleased to announce the launch of their joint investment offering, the T. Rowe Price OHA Select Private Credit Fund (OCREDIT). OCREDIT provides an OHA-managed private credit investment solution for income-oriented individual investors with the convenience of a non-traded, perpetual-life business development company (BDC) structure.

Mobile Infrastructure Corp.’s Listing Goes South

Mobile Infrastructure Corporation (formerly known as The Parking REIT, Inc.) was a nontraded REIT corporation formed on May 4, 2015. The Company focuses on acquiring, owning and leasing parking facilities and related infrastructure, including parking lots, parking garages and other parking structures throughout the United States…

Prologis Explains Why Today’s Supply Chains Require More Logistics Space

In today’s world, 57% more logistics real estate is required to support $1 billion in retail sales than a decade ago, a new analysis by Prologis has found. Ten years ago, 500,000 SF would have been sufficient to do the job. Today, 800,000 SF is needed. “Today, these supply chains amount to 1.2 billion SF and support $1.4 trillion in retail sales (on 2022 dollars basis),” Prologis reported. This has happened despite automation and data analytics advancements, to create what it calls “the supply chain productivity paradox….”

Why Real Estate Investors Like the Self-Storage Industry

There are many reasons why the self-storage sector attracts real estate investors. For one, it is recession-resistant with predictable revenue. Also, customers for self-storage units are typically paying a relatively low rent, as opposed to single-tenant real estate such as retail or office buildings where occupants are on the hook for a bigger check each month which can carry more risk…

Prologis Looks at Four Global Trends Impacting Logistics

Logistics giant Prologis has been looking at the forces affecting logistics real estate and points to four areas that will have the biggest impact. First is a fall in volatility “because of the multiplier effect on demand and structural discipline in supply.” One is a “multiplier effect on demand.” More economic activity is now tied up in logistics. Each unit of growth now needs 20% more additional logistics then before the pandemic.