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Nontraded REITs Don’t Own Floundering Enclosed Mall Assets
Using Blue Vault’s exclusive database, we looked at the properties held by nontraded REITs as of March 31, 2023, to see if those assets could be categorized as “older, low-end malls”…
WiserAdvisor announces the successful acquisition of Indyfin
WiserAdvisor, a leading marketplace for wealth management firms, proudly announces the successful...
Chad Clark: Know Who Is Responsible
In this Blue Vault Minute, Chad Clark (Partner, Senior Advisor at Redemption Capital) explains how his advisory firm selects alts to incorporate into its practice.
Blackstone & QTS to spend $8bn building new data centers, as investor prepares for “once in a generation” AI boom
Blackstone’s $68 billion flagship property fund is selling assets and preparing to spend billions on data centers. The Financial Times reports that the Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust, or Breit, plans to pump $8bn into building new data centers through its asset QTS Data Centers, as it predicts a surge in artificial intelligence workloads…
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Capital Square Reports $1.68 Billion In Acquisitions, Record Equity Raised And High-Yielding Dispositions in 2021
Capital Square Reports $1.68 Billion In Acquisitions, Record Equity Raised And High-Yielding Dispositions in 2021 January 19, 2022 | Capital Square Capital Square, a...
Blackstone Might Reach Its $1 Trillion Goal Four Years Ahead Of Schedule
Blackstone Might Reach Its $1 Trillion Goal Four Years Ahead Of Schedule January 30, 2022 | Kevin Dowd | Forbes At an investor day way back in September 2018, firm...
How much capital did Cantor Fitzgerald raise across all of their real estate investment platforms in 2021?
How much capital did Cantor Fitzgerald raise across all of their real estate investment platforms in 2021? Answer: Cantor Fitzgerald raised over $1 billion in 2021 across...
Leitbox to Lead Discussion on Fifth Generation Storage at Inside Self Storage World Expo
Leitbox to Lead Discussion on Fifth Generation Storage at Inside Self Storage World Expo January 28, 2022 | Leitbox Storage Partners, LLC The Inside Self Storage World Expo...
Blue Vault’s Estimates of Interval Fund & Closed End Fund Performance
James Sprow | Blue Vault | Ten Interval Fund and Closed End Fund companies reported their monthly sales to Blue Vault during 2021. We look at the monthly share pricing for...
Relationships Between Cap Rates and Costs of Debt and the CRE Outlook
Relationships Between Cap Rates and Costs of Debt and the CRE Outlook January 31, 2022 | James Sprow | Blue Vault In commercial real estate, the concept of a “cap rate” or...
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As COVID-19 closes doors, what’s in store for retail?
The economic shock caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing lockdown has resulted in nationwide store closures, leaving investors to wonder if this novel coronavirus will be…
Orion merges with Brinker Capital to form $40 billion TAMP
Orion Advisor Solutions is merging with competing turnkey asset management platform Brinker Capital to create an investment management firm and technology provider with…
Capital raise for the nontraded REIT industry totaled approximately $6.7 billion in the first quarter of 2020, marking the highest quarterly sales total in the history of the industry. How many consecutive quarters has the nontraded REIT industry seen its capital raise increase?
Answer: The first quarter capital raise of $6.7 billion marked the tenth consecutive quarter of increased capital raise since…
How many properties did Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust acquire in the first quarter of 2020, and how does that compare to the rest of the nontraded REIT industry?
Answer: Blackstone acquired 104 properties in the first quarter for a total purchase price of approximately $2.7 billion. This accounts for…
Inside the V(ALT), with Gary Davi of Centersky [full episode]
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