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Real Estate Credit Leader Matthew Borstein Joins CIM Group as Managing Director, Co-Head of Credit to Continue Platform Expansion
“[Matthew Borstein] has exceptional expertise, longstanding relationships, and strategic vision, and we are proud to welcome him to CIM Group.” — Avi Shemesh, Co-Founder and Principal, CIM Group.
Blue Vault Begins Publishing Q1 2025 Nontraded BDC Performance Reports
Track individual Nontraded BDC performance with Blue Vault’s Individual Performance Pages. Fourteen Q1 2025 reports are ready for members to view today.
ASHFORD SECURITIES EXPANDS TEAM WITH STRATEGIC HIRES
Ashford Securities LLC strengthens its leadership team with dynamic new talent, signaling exciting developments in its national growth strategy and commitment to financial intermediaries—discover the seasoned professionals driving this next chapter.
Alts Lingo for Beginners: How to Make an Informed Pitch
Alternative investments terminology can sometimes seem contradictory, but it’s important to understand the lingo in order to make an informed pitch to investors.
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Blackstone Profit Slides as Dealmaking Hit by Market Tumult
Blackstone Profit Slides as Dealmaking Hit by Market Tumult April 20, 2023 | Dawn Lim | Bloomberg Blackstone Inc.’s first-quarter profit fell as dealmaking at the...
Silver Star Properties Sells 734,000 SF Industrial Property in Houston
Silver Star Properties Sells 734,000 SF Industrial Property in Houston April 20, 2023 | Rebusiness Online Silver Star Properties, an entity formerly known as Hartman Short...
US Hotel Metrics Improve in Week Ended April 15
US Hotel Metrics Improve in Week Ended April 15 April 24, 2023 | Muhammad Hammad Asif | S&P Global Market Intelligence US hotel performance was up week over week during...
Sam Zell Thinks Workers Will Return to the Office
Sam Zell Thinks Workers Will Return to the Office April 20, 2023 | Jack Rogers | GlobeSt.com CRE legend Sam Zell told an audience full of NYU grad students on Wednesday that...
Leitbox Storage Partners Breaks Ground in Orlando, Florida
Leitbox Storage Partners, “Leitbox”, a self-storage investment and development platform, based in Birmingham, Alabama, announced today its investment in a fifth-generation...
Outlook for office REITs murky as concern builds around CRE debt, market weakness
Outlook for office REITs murky as concern builds around CRE debt, market weakness April 19, 2023 | Ashley Fahey | The Business Journals With a weaker office market since the...
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Carter Validus Mission Critical REIT II, Inc.’s Response to COVID-19
Dear Valued Stockholder,
I am writing to inform you that we have been proactive in addressing the unprecedented development of…
Retail Investment Sales Volume Was Already Down Before Coronavirus Hit. What Will Happen Now?
As the world struggles with the impact of the coronarvirus pandemic, the question looms how it will affect U.S. commercial real estate as there are more quarantines…
Simon Shutters US Malls Amid Virus Scare
Simon Property Group, the nation’s largest mall owner, is closing all of its retail properties in the U.S. until March 29 to address the spread of the coronavirus…
Why Coronavirus Will Hit Hotel REITs Hardest
Risks U.S. REITs face from coronavirus depend on a variety of factors. Property type, lease duration, market location and concentration, and tenant profiles or…
InvenTrust Board to Delay Updating Estimated Value Per Share
On May 9, 2019, InvenTrust Properties Corp. (the “Company”) announced an estimated per share value of its common stock equal to $3.14 as of May 1, 2019, to assist…
United Development Funding Announces Supreme Court of Texas Denies Kyle Bass Review
In an article posted on Blue Vault’s website in December 2017, entitled “How An Attack on a Nontraded REIT Sponsor Made a Hedge Fund Manager $60 Million,” we referred readers to…
How Falling Interest Rates Affect Nontraded REITs
One effect that the recent fall in interest rates will have on nontraded REITs is the lowering of interest rates on variable rate debt. As of September 30, 2019, approximately…
Blue Vault Releases Its 6th Edition Nontraded REIT Full-Cycle Performance Study
ATLANTA (March 18, 2020) – Blue Vault, a leading independent alternative investments research and education firm, has released its 6th Edition Nontraded REIT Full-Cycle Performance Study to…
James Sprow, Sr. VP – Research at Blue Vault, quoted in FundFire Article
In the FundFire article “Advisors Flock to Real Estate Funds, But Do They Grasp Fees?” author Tom Stabile takes a deep dive into the Blue Vault Nontraded REIT…
Healthcare Trust Recommends Rejection of Mackenzie $7.59 Tender Offer
Healthcare Trust, Inc. (“HTI”) announced that, after careful evaluation, its board of directors strongly recommends that HTI’s stockholders reject the…











