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More Renters Expect To Keep On Renting April 20, 2017

More Renters Expect To Keep On Renting

More Renters Expect To Keep On Renting MCLEAN, VA—That’s one of the conclusions to be drawn from Freddie Mac’s latest survey of apartment tenants. The GSE also expects multifamily loan volume to grow as much as 6% this year. April 11, 2017 | by PAUL BUBNY | GlobeSt.com MCLEAN, VA—Trading a rental for the dream of homeownership?…
Interval Funds are Proving a Hit With Advisors April 18, 2017

Interval Funds are Proving a Hit With Advisors

Interval Funds are Proving a Hit With Advisors April 10, 2017 | by Murray Coleman | Financial Advisor IQ Bond fund manager Pimco has launched an interval fund that’s proving to be a hit with institutional fixed income investors. Categorized by regulators as a cousin to closed-end funds, the new offering has registered to raise $1 billion.…
Republican Tax Reform Plan Puts 1031 Exchanges On The Chopping Block April 18, 2017

Republican Tax Reform Plan Puts 1031 Exchanges On The Chopping Block

Republican Tax Reform Plan Puts 1031 Exchanges On The Chopping Block April 18, 2017 | by Travis Gonzalez | BizNow In June 2016, while Americans were focused on the presidential election, a Republican task force unveiled a 35-page blueprint for tax reform. Dubbed “A Better Way,” the reform attempts to overhaul tax policy and to…
Behringer Harvard Opportunity REIT I Agrees to Sell Frisco, Texas, Multifamily Community April 18, 2017

Behringer Harvard Opportunity REIT I Agrees to Sell Frisco, Texas, Multifamily Community

Behringer Harvard Opportunity REIT I Agrees to Sell Frisco, Texas, Multifamily Community April 19, 2017 | by James Sprow | Blue Vault On April 10, 2017, Behringer Harvard Opportunity REIT I, Inc., through an indirect 90%-owned subsidiary, entered into an agreement to sell the 275-unit multifamily community in Frisco, Texas to an unaffiliated third party for a…
Sam Zell on why interest rates need a “shot clock” April 17, 2017

Sam Zell on why interest rates need a “shot clock”

Sam Zell on why interest rates need a “shot clock” April 6, 2017 | by E.B. Solomont | TheRealDeal From TRD New York: Sam Zell is tired of waiting for Godot. Raise those damn interest rates already, he says. “The kinds of interest rates we’ve had are like basketball without a shot clock,” the billionaire chairman of Equity…
Financial Choice Act to Be Reintroduced by End of April April 17, 2017

Financial Choice Act to Be Reintroduced by End of April

Financial Choice Act to Be Reintroduced by End of April Latest iteration of Choice Act still requires DOL to promulgate fiduciary rule similar to SEC's April 12, 2017 | by Melanie Waddell | ThinkAdvisor Rep. Jeb Hensarling’s Financial Choice Act, which seeks to gut the Dodd-Frank Act and is set for release by the end of April,…
Are Retail Stocks and Mall REITs a Value Play? April 17, 2017

Are Retail Stocks and Mall REITs a Value Play?

Are Retail Stocks and Mall REITs a Value Play? April 13, 2017 | by Debbie Carlson | U.S. News Retail stocks and the mall and shopping center real-estate investment trusts have been hit hard by investors worried about the impact of online shopping on both retailers and the physical locations where these stores reside. In particular, the…
Fears mount over US construction boom April 13, 2017

Fears mount over US construction boom

Fears mount over US construction boom April 12, 2017 | by Alistair Gray | Financial Times More than a million new apartments have sprung up across the US in a post-crisis construction surge. Now bankers who funded the boom are worried: have developers built too much? As concerns grow about a supply glut, financial watchdogs this month…
As occupancy falls again, apartment landlords sweeten the pot April 11, 2017

As occupancy falls again, apartment landlords sweeten the pot

As occupancy falls again, apartment landlords sweeten the pot March 31, 2017 | by Diana Olick | CNBC If you are a first-time renter or looking to upgrade to a bigger, newer apartment, now may be your best chance. Demand for rental apartments fell short of new supply by about 100,000 units nationwide, according to RealPage, a…

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