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May 2023 Reported Nontraded REIT Sales Up 11.3% from April 2023

Blue Vault received April 2023 sales totals for ten nontraded REIT program offerings as of June 25, 2023. Sales reported by those ten NTRs totaled $198.4 million, up 11.3% from $178.2 million in April for the same ten NTRs, and down 68% Y-O-Y from the $627.9 million in sales in May 2022…

Ashford Securities Announces $500 Million In Capital Raised Since 2021

Ashford Securities LLC (“Ashford Securities”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ashford Inc. (NYSE American: AINC) (“Ashford”), is pleased to announce that it has reached a milestone of $500 million, including $42.1 million from institutions, in capital raised in less than two years of serving investors via the independent broker-dealer and RIA distribution channels.

The World’s Empty Office Buildings Have Become a Debt Time Bomb

In New York and London, owners of gleaming office towers are walking away from their debt rather than pouring good money after bad. The landlords of downtown San Francisco’s largest mall have abandoned it. A new Hong Kong skyscraper is only a quarter leased…

Silicon Valley, Calif., Office Vacancy Surging

Vacant office space is piling up in California’s Silicon Valley as technology companies reassess their workspace needs, The Wall Street Journal reported. Office vacancies in San Jose, Palo Alto and Sunnyvale rose to 17% in June…

How Cash Ratios Are Trending for NTRs

A recent article on S&P Capital IQ stated that the cash ratios of non-investment grade-rated companies were “squeezed further” in the first quarter of 2023. The article used the median measure of cash and equivalents as a share of total liabilities of companies rated…

ExchangeRight Successfully Completes 32nd Full-Cycle Event, with Annualized Returns Ranging 8.25%–9.75%

ExchangeRight, one of the nation’s leading providers of diversified real estate DST and REIT investments, has announced the successful completion of its Net-Leased Preferred Equity Fund 3 (“NLPEF 3”), a fund that consistently generated 8.25%–9.75% annualized returns to investors throughout the offering’s six-year lifespan. The liquidation of NLPEF 3 marked the 32nd successful full-cycle event ExchangeRight has executed on behalf of investors out of a total 87 offerings created…

Real Estate Cap Rates and the Slow Wheels of Progress

Differences in cap rates capture the divergence that occurred between U.S. public and private real estate markets in 2022, with public real estate cap rates (REIT implied) higher than their private real estate counterparts (transaction and appraisal). As expected, the gaps between REIT implied…