REIT News

Shares in U.S. real estate investment trusts fell the most in 19 months Wednesday as the Federal Reserve said it could scale back bond purchases this year, fueling concern that rising interest rates will increase acquisition and refinancing costs.

A man walks in front of an index board at the reception hall of the Athens Stock exchange May 28, 2012.

We recently wrote an article on Annaly Capital Management where we contested that investors should wait until at least $11 per share to buy the stock, given the effects that Fed tapering concerns were likely to have on the MBS market.

Canada's largest grocer is trying out a new discount small-store format in a bid to attract more customers in urban areas.

IGB Corp Bhd is set to grow its real estate investment trust , currently valued at RM4.5 billion, by injecting assets from its property development ventures in Johor in about five years.

Shares of real-estate investment trusts have been hammered in the past month as interest rates have risen, but few have been hit as hard as companies that own properties leased to single tenants such as fast-food restaurants and convenience stores.

This dividend reflects the Company's forecast of its approximate Core Earnings[1] for the two month period commencing on the pricing of its initial public offering on , the Company's portfolio of mortgage-backed securities was comprised of the following: .

Investors in companies buying mortgage bonds are discovering that coming late to the party can still leave them with the biggest hangover.

It's been an awful six weeks or so for mortgage REITs in general, and a particularly disastrous one for American Capital Agency Corp .

The owner and operator of the largest independent portfolio of wireless communications and broadcast towers in North America,a American Tower Corp , is only up 0.74% year to date, a far cry from the 15.35% return offered by the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

Pure Multi's units are listed on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol RUF.U. Pure Multi currently has 24,089,000 units issued and outstanding.

Public Storage Inc., a self-storage real estate investment trust with more than 2,000 facilities, recently opened the largest facility in its portfolio in Bronx, N.Y. The 12-story facility, 385 Gerard Ave. at E. 144th St., has more than 4,000 units.

A nascent nontraded real estate investment trust has suspended its fund raising as management continues to look for a broker-dealer to distribute the REIT after its former broker-dealer went belly-up.

Eligible investors registered in the DRIP will have their monthly cash distributions used to purchase additional Units, at a 3% discount to the weighted average closing price of the Units, for the five trading days immediately preceding the date of distribution declared by the REIT.

As interest rates have been creeping higher in recent weeks, investors have been running scared from some of the equity-like investments meant to serve as "bond substitutes."

The sale of these rights was made to a privately owned REIT. Proceeds from the sale of these rights are expected to be reflected in the current June quarter of operations.

Ashford Hospitality Trust announced that the company's Board of Directors approved a plan to spin-off an 80 percent ownership interest in an eight-hotel portfolio, totaling 3,146 rooms.

The rate setting committee at the central bank showed willingness to lower reference rates despite the recent weakness in the dollar.

We published a competitive analysis report last year in which we analyzed and evaluated Rayonier , which was a former subsidiary of the old ITT Corporation against its three largest Timber REIT competitors.

On the way to becoming a real estate investment trust in 2010, Weyerhaeuser got out of the fine paper business, closed mills and factories, sold its containerboard, packaging and recycling business and shrank its workforce by 70 percent.