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US commercial property owners with $1.5tn debt seek lenders
Almost $1.5 trillion of US commercial real estate debt comes due for repayment before the end of 2025. The big question…
Warren Buffett on commercial real estate: People who lend too much money should take losses
Berkshire Hathaway’s Warren Buffett joins ‘Squawk Box’ from Tokyo to share his thoughts on the health of the commercial…
More Cities Giving Away Money For Office-To-Resi Projects As Threat Of Obsolescence Grows
Falling tax revenue. Aging downtowns losing their vitality. Record office vacancy. A housing crisis. One strategy could tackle all of these…
InPoint Commercial Real Estate Income Faces Challenges
InPoint was to originate, acquire and manage a diversified portfolio primarily comprised of floating-rate CRE debt, including first mortgage loans and subordinate mortgage and mezzanine loans.
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Seven REIT Sectors That Could Be Positioned to Weather the Storm
Seven REIT Sectors That Could Be Positioned to Weather the Storm April 23, 2020 | John Egan | National Real Estate Investor Since the coronavirus pandemic slammed the U.S....
Blackstone Funds Take a Hit in the Wake of the Coronavirus Outbreak
Blackstone Funds Take a Hit in the Wake of the Coronavirus Outbreak April 23, 2020 | Madeleine Farman | S&P Global Market Intelligence The Blackstone Group Inc.’s...
Starwood’s Sternlicht Predicts Tough Road Back for Retail, Hotels
Starwood’s Sternlicht Predicts Tough Road Back for Retail, Hotels April 23, 2020 | Jake Mooney | S&P Global Market Intelligence The coronavirus pandemic will force...
Blackstone REIT Announces Lower NAVs for Month Ended March 31, 2020
Blackstone REIT Announces Lower NAVs for Month Ended March 31, 2020 April 23, 2020 In a Supplement to the Offering Prospectus filed on April 21, 2020, Blackstone Real Estate...
This Time the Distress Buying Opportunities Will Be Different
This Time the Distress Buying Opportunities Will Be Different One company that sent up a fund in 2018 sees different pockets of problems than what it initially expected....
Pandemic Is A Worsening Threat To The Rental Housing Market
Pandemic Is A Worsening Threat To The Rental Housing Market April 21, 2020 | Brenda Richardson | Forbes Uncertainties caused by the coronavirus pandemic have caused...
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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...
Separating Fact from Fiction: A Rebuttal to Recent Articles Regarding Nontraded REIT Performance
In our opinion, recent articles and blog postings have presented a biased view of nontraded REIT performance. For example, in the June 15, 2014, Wall Street Journal article titled “Nontraded REITs are Hot, But Have Plenty of Critics” and in online blog posts by the...
Going Beyond the Basic Rating System: Introducing Blue Vault’s New Performance Profiles
Blue Vault was founded on the belief that financial professionals need data and analysis based on fact, not opinion. For the past five years we have developed analytical tools and financial models that offer our clients the full picture of performance free of...
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...











