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Gladstone Land Provides Business Update

Gladstone Land Provides Business Update

Gladstone Land Corporation (NASDAQ:LAND) (“Gladstone Land” or the “Company”) announced that, in light of the recent price volatility of its common...

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In a League of Their Own

Real estate cycles and the stock market do not move in lockstep with one another. And while there may be a few good reasons to use publicly traded REIT indexes as a comparison for nontraded REIT performance, the values of nontraded REITs are more closely tied to the...

Blue Vault Questions Investment News Article

In the article written by Bruce Kelly of InvestmentNews on September 17, 2014, titled “Nontraded REITs stack up well compared with traded REITs,” he states that an August 2014 Green Street Advisors study is the “first to track nontraded REIT performance in comparison...

Blue Vault LifeStages 101

When considering an investment in nontraded REITs, both investors and financial advisors need to be aware that these investment vehicles move through distinct developmental stages over time as they grow from inception to maturity. As a result, their performance...

Franklin Square to List First Nontraded BDC on the NYSE

Franklin Square recently announced that it will be listing its first nontraded BDC, FS Investment Corp., on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “FSIC.. It is expected to list in April 2014. FSIC was the first nontraded business development company (BDC)...

Fundraising Does Not Equal Performance

Pick any article published about, nontraded REITs within the past year and most likely the primary focus of the article will be about how much money the industry has raised. Over and over again, we continue to see a significant amount of emphasis placed on this topic...

BDCs – A Primer

Blue Vault has formed a strategic alliance with Blue Springs Capital to launch a new report that will  monitor and analyze the performance of nontraded Business Development Companies (BDC). Created for the purpose of providing education and enhanced transparency for...

When One Door Closes….

The pace of nontraded REIT offering closings has accelerated significantly over the past six months.  In fact, through June 2013, there have been a total of ten offerings that have closed to new investments compared to eight offerings that closed during all of 2012....

The FFO and MFFO Debates

Ask anyone in the real estate investment industry and they will tell you that the metric known as “Funds from Operations,” or FFO, is not perfect.  In fact, there has been an ongoing debate within the publicly traded REIT community for years on this very topic. The...

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