by Ian Ritter | Oct 19, 2015 | Blog
Commercial real estate’s self-storage sector continues to perform extremely well. Rents are rising, and stocks of some of the leading REITs in the sector, such as Extra Space Storage have really taken off in the last year. And like the industrial and multifamily...
by Ian Ritter | Sep 2, 2015 | Blog
There is a lot of news about the hotel industry out there as of late. Strategic Hotels & Resorts is exploring a possible sale. The luxury facility REIT recently had a major investment by Cascade Investment, which is controlled by Bill Gates. Among Chicago-based...
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 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...
