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GSREIT Now Available on iCapital Marketplace
Partnership expands access to private multifamily real estate strategy for wealth advisors and their clients.
Based on the nontraded BDCs tracked by Blue Vault, which offering had the highest quarterly return in the third quarter of 2025?
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Based on the interval funds tracked by Blue Vault, which fund had the highest distribution rate in the first half of 2025?
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A Peek Inside Blue Vault’s Research Portal: What Our Members See
Our members have a multitude of metrics at their fingertips that go deeper than the usual at-a-glance listings of capital raise, AUM, and distribution.
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Guide the Journey or Rush the Sale
Marketing Intent Imagine walking into a networking event, and before you’ve even introduced yourself, someone hands you their business card and launches into a pitch about...
ExchangeRight Welcomes Tracy Mousner as Senior Vice President of the Four Corners Region
ExchangeRight ExchangeRight, one of the nation’s leading providers of diversified real estate REIT and DST investments, has announced the appointment of Tracy Mousner as...
Consistent Producers or One-Hit Wonder
Marketing Intent There’s a real sense of accomplishment when an advisor makes their first investment in your fund. It’s the result of all the meetings, questions, and effort...
Blue Vault has tracked performance data for nontraded REITs since 1990. Based on the funds we have covered over the years, how much gross capital has the nontraded REIT industry raised through the first quarter of this year?
Answer: Based on Blue Vault’s coverage, the nontraded REIT industry has raised $266.0 billion in gross capital as of Q1 2025. Discover...
BlackRock, Hamilton Lane Among Fund Managers Joining SEI Access
SEI SEI® (NASDAQ: SEIC) today announced the addition of 17 fund managers to SEI AccessTM, a platform designed to provide an end-to-end investment experience and increased...
Interval and Tender Offer Fund Market Experiences Accelerated Growth, Surge in Fund Launches, and Shift Toward Greater Investor Accessibility
XA Investments XA Investments LLC (“XAI”), an alternative investment management and consulting firm, announced today that its Non-Listed Closed-End Funds Second Quarter 2025...
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Blackstone REIT’s Share Redemptions Story Far From Over
One of the hottest topics in the nontraded REIT space, beginning in November 2022, has been the share redemption requests submitted by the shareholders of Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust (“BREIT”) and the REIT’s capping of repurchases at 2% of aggregate NAV per month and 5% per quarter…
Advent of Change
“We’re in a very complex, ever-evolving industry,” Geiger begins. “What makes Advent stand out is the depth of our domain expertise.” With decades of industry experience, long-serving employees and the backing of SS&C, the company’s credentials certainly inspire confidence….
Legitimizing Your Firm
Remember the Saturday Night Live skit with Chris Farley and “the van down by the river?” Well, recently, we had a client come to us that made us think of that, because they wanted us to help legitimize their firm so they didn’t look like they worked out of a van down by the river. Read on to learn where we focused that effort…
Is Every Commercial Office Property in Trouble?
Midway through 2023, media coverage of the challenges many commercial office real estate owners are confronting has reached a feverish level. One may wonder if the sector’s current low vacancy rates and refinancing requirements will ultimately bring down our entire economy. We think not…
How Our Series 7 Securities Licenses Benefit Our Clients
You may think of a Series 7 Securities License as the exclusive domain of financial advisors. But can this valuable credential also benefit those of us in the marketing realm? The answer is a resounding “yes.” Let us introduce ourselves – we are Alise and Cherie, both proud holders of Series 7 Securities Licenses. Here’s why it matters…
Blue Vault Nontraded REIT Studies: Tracking the Evolution of an Industry
For more than a decade, Blue Vault has been at the forefront of assessing the performance, fees, and net asset values (NAV) of individual nontraded real estate investment trusts (REITs). Our suite of studies provides a panoramic, historical look
Housing remains a puzzle in Fed’s inflation fight
Analysts don’t expect it to continue, with real-time rent data still pointing to an eventual slowdown in official housing price indexes that include information from a year ago in a moving average.
Manageable debt, quality assets cushion US public office REITs against headwinds
Public office REITs had total debt of $81.69 billion as of the end of the second quarter, 87.8% of which has a fixed rate, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence data.
SmartStop Opens New Self-Storage Facility in San Gabriel, California
“We are excited to announce the opening of our newest self-storage facility in the San Gabriel Valley,” said H. Michael Schwartz, Chairman and CEO of SmartStop.
7 Top SEC Exam Priorities for 2024
The Securities and Exchange Commission has released its 2024 examination priorities to inform investors and registrants of the key risks, exam topics and priorities that the division plans to focus on in the upcoming year…











