The Investment Program Association announced March 9 that the organization is changing its name to the Institute for Portfolio Alternatives (the new IPA).

FS Investments and KKR today announced the closing of their previously announced transaction to create the market’s largest business development company (BDC) platform, with $18 billion in combined assets under management.

Commercial real estate investors can expect that property prices will trend downward in the near future, according to Green Street Advisors, a real estate research firm headquartered in Newport Beach, California.

In an 8K filing on April 2, Griffin Capital Essential Asset REIT II announced changes to its IPO Share Redemption Program (SRP) to allow stockholders to redeem their shares at 100% of net asset value of the applicable share class one year from purchase date.

JLL Income Property Trust has announced the reduction of fees on two of its publicly available share classes.

On March 29, 2018, the independent directors of Healthcare Trust, Inc. who comprise a majority of the board, with Edward M. Weil, Jr. abstaining, unanimously approved an Estimated Per-Share NAV as of December 31, 2017 equal to $20.25 based on the estimated fair value of the Company’s assets less the estimated fair value of the Company’s liabilities, divided by 91,768,014 shares of common stock outstanding on a fully diluted basis as of December 31, 2017.

In a letter to shareholders on March 29, Steadfast Income REIT announced an updated net asset value per share for the company’s common stock of $10.84 per share.