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Ashford Hospitality Trust Hopes To Hand Back Keys to 19 Hotels in Its Portfolio by Year’s End
The Dallas-based REIT has been working for months to hand back the keys of 19 hotels tied to three loans that matured in June in which the trust opted not to pay the $255 million required to extend those loans.
NexPoint Real Estate Finance, Inc. Launches $400 Million Continuous Offering of 9.0% Series B Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock
The Series B Preferred Stock is being offered by NexPoint Securities on a “reasonable best efforts” basis. There is no public market for the Series B Preferred Stock and the Company does not intend to apply for a listing of the Series B Preferred Stock on any national securities exchange.
What Are Your Firm’s Differentiators?
The quest for differentiation isn’t just about establishing uniqueness – it’s about conveying value in an environment where competition is intense.
Prospect Capital Announces September 2023 Financial Results and Declares Steady Monthly Dividends through January 2024 of $0.06 Per Common Share
Prospect’s closing stock price of $5.35 at November 7, 2023 delivers to our common shareholders an annualized distribution yield of 13.5% and an annualized basic NII yield of 18.7%, representing 139% basic NII coverage of common distributions.
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Bluerock Capital Markets Announces a Record Capital Raise of Over $1.47 Billion in 2019
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Pacific Oak Strategic Opportunity REITs I and II Propose Merger
In a January 29 filing with the SEC, Pacific Oak Strategic Opportunity REIT II, Inc. (“POSOR II”) announced that a Special Committee of its Board of Directors is negotiating…
Based on Blue Vault’s definition of a full-cycle event, how many full-cycle events took place in the second quarter of 2019?
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A Deeper Look at Owl Rock
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