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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.
Q4 2022 NTR and BDC Pages Published
Q4 2022 NTR and BDC Pages Published The following individual performance pages are published and...
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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...
The Office Market After COVID: Will It Be a Zero-Sum Game?
The Office Market After COVID: Will It Be a Zero-Sum Game? There are three basic scenarios for how office tenants might respond to the pandemic. April 22, 2020 | Jahn S....
How Will Net Lease Retail Assets Fare During and Post-COVID-19?
How Will Net Lease Retail Assets Fare During and Post-COVID-19? For assets leased by essential service providers, the cap rates haven’t changed, says one market insider....
Hines Global Income Trust Completes Sale of Bishop’s Square
Hines Global Income Trust Completes Sale of Bishop’s Square April 22, 2020 Hines, the international real estate firm, announced today the sale of Bishop’s Square by Hines...
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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...
The New Kids on the Block
As we welcome in a new year, last week the nontraded REIT industry welcomed its newest member and the eighth offering to incorporate a daily pricing model. Continuing with a trend that began in 2011 and maintained momentum throughout 2012, as of January 8th, daily...
One Bad Apple Doesn’t Always Spoil the Whole Bunch
Nontraded REITs continue to get a bad reputation as a result of fines and sanctions like the one just handed down by FINRA against David Lerner Associates. On the whole however, sponsors of nontraded REITs and the broker/dealers that distribute them are among the...











