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Blue Vault Performance Report and Industry Review Update 12-29-2025
Read Blue Vault’s year-end performance report and industry review update. Let us serve your alts data needs in 2026!
Eagle Point Credit Company Inc. Announces Full Redemption of the 8.00% Series F Term Preferred Stock Due 2029
This redemption reflects the company’s ongoing efforts to optimize its capital structure and reduce financing costs.
Inland Real Estate Acquisitions, LLC Purchases University Student Housing Portfolio with The Scion Group
The portfolio is comprised of more than 1,800 beds across purpose-built student housing communities serving the campuses of Purdue University, Baylor University and the University of Virginia.
StratCap Digital Infrastructure REIT Sells Cell Towers to Accelerate Rebalancing Toward Core Data Centers
The Sale successfully monetizes a portion of DIR’s tower portfolio, helping the Company to accelerate its initiative to rebalance its portfolio toward other digital sectors, such as stabilized data centers, which management believes can provide attractive risk adjusted returns.
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CIM Group Hires Veteran Financial Services Executive Paul Weisenfeld as Head of National Accounts in Expansion of Private Wealth Team
CIM Group CIM Group announced today that distinguished financial services leader Paul Weisenfeld has joined the firm as Head of National Accounts as it continues to grow its...
Bluerock Announces Shareholder Liquidity Event in Bluerock Total Income+ Real Estate Fund
Bluerock Bluerock today announced a proposed shareholder liquidity event for its flagship real estate fund, the Bluerock Total Income+ Real Estate Fund (“TI+” or “Fund”)....
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Blue Vault’s alternative investment data includes coverage of 16 active, open nontraded REITs. Which nontraded REIT had the highest capital raise in the first quarter of 2025?
Answer: Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust led the nontraded REIT sector in fundraising with $822.8 million in capital raise in Q1 2025 for a 39.6% market share, having...
Orion and iCapital® Deepen Integration to Empower Independent Advisors with Seamless Access to Alternative Investments
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PetSmart’s Owner Sells Minority Stake to Apollo
BC Partners has agreed to sell a minority stake of its PetSmart holdings to funds managed by affiliates of Apollo…
Why Blackstone Was Able To Turn Simply Self Storage Into an Extra $1 Billion in Under Three Years
Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust’s deal to sell Simply Self Storage to Public Storage for $2.2 billion signals more than the seller collecting $1 billion over what it paid less than three years ago. It also indicates optimism about long-term self-storage demand in certain parts of the country didn’t ease with the pandemic…
Nate Oltmans: Explaining Alts to Clients
Wondering how to discuss alternative investments with clients? Advisor Nate Oltmans offers insights in this Blue Vault Minute.
NAV REITs Report Flat Median Total Returns for June
The median monthly total return for 16 continuously offered nontraded REIT programs (“NAV REITs”) was just 0.01% in June, compared to negative 0.46% in May. Eight of the 16 reported positive total returns. This is the first month since November 2022 that, as a group, the continuously offered nontraded REIT programs have reported a positive median return, albeit a very small one. Year-to-date in 2023, the median total return for the 16 REITs was negative 2.94%. By contrast, the S&P 500 Index total return over the same six-month period was 16.89% and the NAREIT All Equity REIT Index total return was 2.97%.
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‘I’ll Show You Mine, You Show Me Yours’: More Office Tenants Looking At Owners’ Books Before Signing Leases
It’s traditional in lease negotiations for the owner of an office building to ask a prospective tenant to show proof that they are in good financial standing and can be expected to pay rent every month….
New REITs Proliferate in Anticipation of Further Decline in Property Values
Four major investment firms have taken steps this month to set up nontraded real estate investment trusts so they can swoop in when property values finally adjust to a new economic reality of significantly reduced prices. The filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission by Sculptor Capital Management, ExchangeRight, EQT Exeter and Invesco Real Estate…
US Hotel Occupancy, Daily Rates Jump in Week Ended July 15
US hotel performance improved in all three metrics during the week ended July 15, STR reported, citing the latest data from CoStar, which provides information and analytics in the property markets. Occupancy increased to 72.0% from 61.8% a week earlier and was up 0.1% from the comparable week in 2022.
Nate Oltmans: Alts Challenges in 2023
In this BV Minute, Nate Oltmans gives an advisor’s perspective on the challenges facing alternatives this year, and some of the asset managers he uses in his practice.
How Institutional Alternative Managers Can Accelerate Capture of Retail Market Share
We recently caught up with Alliance 160’s Amanda Teeple to discover ways that institutional alternatives offerings can be packaged for RIA firms, broker-dealers and family offices. Alliance 160, a strategic consultancy that provides critical support for institutional alts managers seeking to develop products that adhere to compliance guidelines for the independent broker-dealer (IBD) and Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) channels, sees intensifying growth opportunities.
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