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Are Your Alternative Investment Marketing Materials Confusing Your Sales Team?
Clean, compliant, and current alternative investment marketing materials support stronger conversations, smoother audits, and better alignment between marketing and sales.
How to Manage 50+ Conferences a Year Without Losing Control
Managing 50+ conferences a year is possible, but only if the process is structured enough to support that volume.
Bluerock Private Real Estate Fund Announces Distribution Increase for May 2026, Marking Third Distribution Increase Since Listing
BPRE to host May 18th investor webinar with progress update on its strategic capital rotation plan.
CIM Group Signs Columbia Container Lines LAX Inc. to 156,096-Square-Foot Industrial Space Lease in Fullerton, California
Columbia Container Lines, a logistics and distribution operator, has leased 156,096 square feet at the property, which features 18-dock-high doors, six grade-level ramps, 28-foot clear heights and 3,000 amps of power.
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Demand for Private Real Estate Indexing Surges as Advisers Seek Diversification Amid High Equity Market Valuations
Accordant With equity markets trading at historically high valuations and inflationary pressures weighing on investors, financial advisers are increasingly turning to...
Based on the offerings that Blue Vault tracks, what was the median debt ratio for all open nontraded REITs in the second quarter of 2025?
Answer: The median debt ratio for all open nontraded REITs tracked by Blue Vault in Q2 2025 was 41%, down from 47% in the previous quarter and down from 48% in both the last...
Greenwood Star Acquires Two New Multifamily Communities for GSREIT Near Atlanta
Greenwood Star Greenwood Star Holdings (“Greenwood Star”), a vertically integrated real estate company specializing in the acquisition, management, and...
Essential Income REIT Achieves Blue Vault’s Top Performance Profile Ratings in Q2 2025
ExchangeRight ExchangeRight has announced that the Essential Income REIT was one of only two Growth and Stabilizing Non-Traded equity REITs (“NTRs”) to receive the highest...
September 30 Filing Timeline: What’s Coming Up
September 30, 2025 marks the end of the third quarter for nontraded REITs and nontraded BDCs. These issuers are required to file their Form 10-Qs with the SEC no later than...
Of the nontraded BDCs that Blue Vault tracks, Blackstone Private Credit Fund raised the most capital in Q2 2025 ($2.2 billion). How much has it raised in its public offering since being introduced in 2021?
Answer: The Blackstone Private Credit Fund has generated approximately $32.2 billion in its public offering since being introduced in 2021, including $2.2 billion in the...
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Practice Management: Why Innovators Pounce When Growth Slows
If you want to see how business leaders respond to a volatile climate, there’s no better vantage point than a room full of entrepreneurs. I’ve had the privilege of belonging to my local 180-member chapter of Entrepreneurs’ Organization. EO Los Angeles has been an amazing experience for many reasons, not least of which is giving me a front-row seat to watch how different owners approach business cycles…
Barry Sternlicht: ‘Category 5 Hurricane’ Has Come For Commercial Real Estate
New distress opportunities are emerging for commercial real estate players able to weather the current storm, but buyers may need to be able to endure the current fiscal difficulties for longer than some expect, billionaire commercial real estate executive Barry Sternlicht said…
Brian Evans: Alternatives Are a True Diversification Class
Brian Evans (Founder, Madrona Financial Services) reviews five attributes of investing and how many apply to alternative investments in this Blue Vault Minute.
Concerns percolate about how SEC’s AI proposal aligns with Reg BI
An SEC proposal to eliminate conflicts of interest in financial advisors’ use of technology that predicts investor behavior is raising concerns about how it will work with Regulation Best Interest. A split Securities and Exchange Commission voted 3-2 Wednesday to release a proposal for public comment that would require brokerages and investment advisory firms to “eliminate or neutralize” conflicts related to conducting investor interactions through artificial intelligence, predictive data analytics and similar technology…
Blue Vault Expands Coverage of Tender Offer Funds
Blue Vault’s coverage of tender offer funds expands with first-time reporting on ten offerings. See below for a complete list of all the newly-published classic pdf reports. Tender Offer Funds -AB Multi-Manager Alternative Fund March 31, 2023 NEW! -AIP Alternative...
Blackstone’s EQ Office sells Costa Mesa office campus at 10% loss
Blackstone has sold an office campus in Costa Mesa for $91.5 million — about 10 percent less than what it assembled it for between 2013 and 2015. MGR Real Estate, run by Michael Rademaker, bought the 553,000-square-foot complex at 3070 and 3100 Bristol Street, according to Orange County property records. The sale came to about $165 per square foot…
US commercial property delinquencies rise further in July, report says
Nearly $12 billon of loans in U.S. commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) became newly delinquent, pushing the late payment rate up by 34 basis points from June to 3.93%, a report by credit rating agency KBRA said on Wednesday…
Brian Evans: Vetting Alts Sponsors for Your Practice
In this Blue Vault Minute, Brian Evans (Founder, Madrona Financial Services) talks about the factors he considers when choosing which alts sponsors to work with in his practice.
What Government Can and Cannot Do to Make Housing “Affordable”
The U.S. has a “housing shortage” and a popular part of that theme today is an “affordable housing” shortage. Honest economists would have to question that conclusion…
Blackstone NAV REIT Performance Outshines Cash Flow Concerns
Despite indications that Blackstone’s nontraded real estate investment trust (NAV REIT) has struggled to deliver on redemptions, the diversified fund has shown “consistently better” total returns than its peers, proving its post-pandemic staying power, Blue Vault researchers say. As more second-quarter data become available, we’re finding that Blackstone’s Real Estate Income Trust has outperformed or held steady against many of the other large NAV REITs it competes with, said Blue Vault Senior VP James Sprow on Blue Vault’s July 26 webinar, A Deeper Look at Blackstone. Sprow said this is due to several factors, including: Limited office sector exposure, a consistently positive risk-vs-return profile, and a 0.69% rise in NAV in Q2 2023 — the largest Q2 2023 rise in NAV among nontraded REITs…
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