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Based on the nontraded REITs tracked by Blue Vault, how much capital did the nontraded REIT industry raise through private offerings in the third quarter of 2025?
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Capital Square Launches New Active Living DST Offering in Richmond’s Short Pump Submarket
The offering is available to accredited investors only.
2026 Alternative Playbook: What To Overweight, Underweight, And Why
Including alternatives in your portfolio can help manage risk and protect against market ups and downs.
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ExchangeRight REIT Credit Facility Commitments Increase to $150 Million Following Renasant Bank’s Addition
ExchangeRight ExchangeRight, one of the nation’s leading providers of diversified real estate REIT and DST investments, has announced Renasant Bank’s $15 million commitment...
Blue Vault Publishes 4-30-2025 Interval Fund, Tender Offer Fund Reports
Blue Vault added nine Interval Fund and five Tender Offer Fund Individual Performance Pages (IPPs) to its research catalog. An orange font signifies that Blue Vault is...
Capital Square Housing Trust Launches $40 Million Preferred Stock Offering
Capital Square Capital Square Housing Trust, a real estate investment trust (REIT) sponsored by Capital Square, announced today the offering of up to four million shares of...
Smart Marketing Keeps Advisors Coming Back
Marketing Intent There’s something we’ve been hearing loud and clear lately. And if you’re paying attention to your feedback loop, you’re probably hearing it too. It’s not...
Blue Vault’s alternative investment data includes coverage of 50 active tender offer funds. Which tender offer fund had the highest capital raise based on the most recent filing?
Answer: StepStone Private Markets was the top tender offer fund fundraiser, raising gross proceeds of approximately $1.1 billion for the six-month period ending March 31,...
The Lowdown on UPREITs: Keeping Investment Property in Play
Johnathan Rickman | Blue Vault As the majority of real estate investors enter retirement age and seek to preserve their income, capital, and tax benefits with passive...
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Rising Interest Rates a Boon for Blackstone BDC, Interval Fund Investors
As interest rates continue to rise, investors in Blackstone’s business development company (BDC) and interval fund are seeing a similar spike in distribution payments, reflecting the asset manager’s profit-generating prowess amid extended economic turbulence. On Blue Vault’s July 26 webinar, A Deeper Look at Blackstone, Senior Financial Analyst Luke Schmidt said both funds are performing very well, with Blue Vault data revealing healthy returns from the funds’ respective investments in software, healthcare, IT services, and other resilient industries…
Capital Square Fully Subscribes DST Offering of Multifamily Build-for-Rent Community Near Raleigh, North Carolina
Capital Square Fully Subscribes DST Offering of Multifamily Build-for-Rent Community Near Raleigh, North Carolina August 3, 2023 | Capital Square Capital Square, one of the nation’s leading sponsors of tax-advantaged real estate investments and an active developer of...
Investors Looking To Seize On Depressed Property Valuations Create New Crop Of REITs National
It may seem like an odd time to launch a new commercial property venture, with interest rates at a 22-year high and valuations of basically every property type dropping, but a fresh wave of nontraded REITs has arrived to take advantage of those very same conditions…
SmartStop Self Storage Sponsors ‘Flight for Hope’ Round-the-World Journey
SmartStop Self Storage REIT Inc., a self-managed real estate investment trust, is sponsoring the plane for Flight for Hope, a round-the-world journey by Callum Wallace to raise awareness and funds for the nonprofit Home Suite Hope and other charities. An advisor at real estate firm Engel & Völkers Oakville, Wallace is the fourth Canadian to attempt the challenge, according to a press release….
Overall QOF Equity Bounces Back in Second Quarter, but Far Behind 2022 Numbers
Qualified opportunity funds (QOFs) tracked by Novogradac reported raising $2.01 billion in equity over the first six months of 2023, including $1.33 billion during the second quarter of the year. Equity reported by QOFs tracked by Novogradac reached a cumulative $36.10 billion as of June 30, 2023. Novogradac is tracking 1,731 QOFs, of which 1,330 report a specific amount raised…
Stephen Lovell: Begin with Education
When introducing clients to alternative investments, Stephen Lovell (Lovell Wealth Management) advises you start by educating them. Learn more in this Blue Vault Minute.
Stephen Lovell: Advising Clients Through a Negative Alts Experience
Stephen Lovell (Founder & President, Lovell Wealth Management) recounts how he navigated through a negative experience with alts in this Blue Vault Minute.
Chad Clark: Alts Differentiate Your Practice
What does Chad Clark (Partner, Senior Advisor at Redemption Capital) think an advisor should know about adding alternative investments to their practice for the first time? Find out in this Blue Vault Minute.
Of the eighteen nontraded BDCs covered by Blue Vault, how many reported a total return greater than 3% in the first quarter of 2023?
The number of nontraded BDCs…
Nontraded REITs Don’t Own Floundering Enclosed Mall Assets
Using Blue Vault’s exclusive database, we looked at the properties held by nontraded REITs as of March 31, 2023, to see if those assets could be categorized as “older, low-end malls”…










