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Demand for Private Real Estate Indexing Surges as Advisers Seek Diversification Amid High Equity Market Valuations
Accordant ODCE Index Fund sees strong adoption as advisers turn to institutional private real estate for inflation protection and stability.
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Greenwood Star Acquires Two New Multifamily Communities for GSREIT Near Atlanta
Both properties include attractive 3.63% assumable loans.
Essential Income REIT Achieves Blue Vault’s Top Performance Profile Ratings in Q2 2025
The REIT recorded one of the five lowest redemption rates in Q2 2025, with redemptions totaling 1.28% of weighted average shares outstanding.
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Communicate Your “Why”
Marketing Intent Communicate Your “Why” Understanding and communicating the fundamental reasons behind your firm’s investment strategy—the “why”—is not just beneficial,...
Bluerock Hires Alternatives Industry Veteran Julia Phillips as Chief Marketing Officer
Bluerock Bluerock announced today that it has hired industry veteran Julia Phillips to serve as Managing Director and Chief Marketing Officer. In this newly created...
ExchangeRight’s Essential Income REIT Continues its Significant Market Outperformance as Measured in Blue Vault’s Q1 2024 Report
ExchangeRight ExchangeRight, one of the nation’s leading providers of diversified real estate DST and REIT investments, has announced that the Essential Income REIT was the...
Sealy & Company Receives Second BOMA 360 Certified Building Designation
Sealy & Co Sealy & Company proudly announces that Executive Center III, located at 5440 Red Bird Center Drive in Dallas, TX, has received the esteemed BOMA...
Fee Waivers Aim to Lift Franklin Interval Fund Out of ‘Valley of Death’
Alyson Velati | Financial Advisor IQ Franklin Templeton‘s May fee waiver for its private credit interval fund could get it past the $100 million mark, which is crucial...
Inland Achieves 1.37x Equity Multiple to Investors with the Sale of a 296-Unit Multifamily Property in Fort Myers
The Inland Real Estate Group Inland Private Capital Corporation (“IPC”), an industry leading real estate investment manager, today announced the sale of Brantley Pines, a...
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Converging Trends in Commercial Real Estate Markets Highlighted
A recent article by Peter Grant, who covers commercial real estate trends for the Wall Street Journal, covered a lot of territory and trends in the commercial real estate space. (See “Wall Street Is Ready to Scoop Up Commercial Real Estate on the Cheap” August 15, WSJ) Like pulling a thread from a sweater, digging into a selection of Grant’s points made in the article reveals trends in the commercial real estate market that investors and asset managers alike must pay attention to…
Return-To-Office Mandates Now Cover Nearly 2 Million Workers. Occupancy Has Barely Budged
2023 is officially the year of the return-to-office mandate, with nearly 3 million workers already under, or expected to be subject to, a new in-person work requirement in the coming months…
ExchangeRight Announces Collection of 100% of Rent Due Across Entire Net Lease AUM Inception-to-Date
All 88 of ExchangeRight’s offerings continue to meet or exceed investor distribution targets.
Hedging with Gold Has an Opportunity Cost
Judging by the number advertisements heard regularly promoting holding gold as a hedge against inflation and protection should the U.S. economy crash, one would conclude that Americans are turning to investments in gold bullion or equivalents in large numbers. The facts don’t support that conclusion. As the chart below illustrates, spot gold prices (green line) have not outperformed the stock market as represented by the S&P 500 Index (blue line) over the past six months. Plus, listed stocks pay dividends which can make up a significant portion of total returns to shareholders…
Blackstone Names Harper BREIT President While Agarwal Goes on Leave
Blackstone Inc.’s $68 billion real estate trust said its president A.J. Agarwal will go on a sabbatical for nine months and Rob Harper will fill that role…











