by Ian Ritter | Jul 8, 2015 | Blog
We know that the multifamily sector of commercial real estate is seeing interests in secondary markets. Well, according to a recent conference that concentrated on the office sector, NAIOP’s O.CON: The Office Conference, that area of the industry is looking for...
by Ian Ritter | Jul 7, 2015 | Blog
The multifamily bubble isn’t bursting yet, and if savvy investors are in the know, it doesn’t look like it will any time soon. Lone Star Funds, a private-equity group, has agreed to acquire REIT Home Properties Inc. for about $7.6 billion. It is apparently the...
by Ian Ritter | Jun 30, 2015 | Blog
Foreign investors putting their money into commercial real estate get major headlines when they make big-splash purchases, such as when New York City’s Waldorf Astoria traded for $1.95 billion to China-based Anbang Insurance, among other significant Manhattan assets....
by Ian Ritter | Jun 24, 2015 | Blog
Some big restaurant and commercial real estate news was recently announced by Darden Restaurants. The company, which owns Olive Garden and other popular chains, is spinning off a sizable portion of its real estate into a REIT and forming another publicly traded...
by Ian Ritter | Jun 18, 2015 | Blog
Now that the commercial real estate industry is pretty certain that interest rates will rise over the next couple of years, albeit at a slow pace, what does this mean for owners and investors in these properties? A Forbes article points out that though REIT stock...
