REIT News

If you follow the REIT market, you're sure to know that the past three years haven't been good for real estate companies.

REITs were once a solid spot for dividend investors to park some cash and collect steady payouts.

KEN GIGLIOTTI WINNIPEG FREE PRESS / May 26 2009 - 090526 - Manitoba Human Right Museum members meet with WFP Editorial Board ,in FP boardroom ,re: financing and building of the museum - Arni Thorsteinson Chair and Trustee Administrator Enlarge Image Winnipeg's real estate investment market is cooking and one local investment trust is using that to ...

Successful investing depends on allocating a big chunk of your money to commodities and real estate securities, as well as to stocks and bonds, argues an asset-allocation guru.

An analyst upgraded shares of Hospitality Properties Trust Wednesday and said it expects the real estate investment trust to reinstate its cash dividend in 2010.

Allstate Corp. , the largest publicly-traded insurer of homes and automobiles in the U.S., announced this week that it is making some major shifts in its investment portfolio that now exceeds $100 billion.

Courtesy of some CRE Analyst readers. General themes Unlike most other recessions, we are in a "demand" recession when the economy recovers, absorption should occur relatively quickly; however at 30% lower rents Full buildings will have debt in excess of value, but very little motivation for owners to sell deleveraging is inevitable Result fewer ...

Shortly after Thanksgiving last year, we created a Tofurky portfolio that managed to produce some tasty returns.

The vultures are circling commercial real estate. But are they too numerous and too early? These are the questions troubling a new generation of commercial real estate investment trusts as they try to benefit from the problems in retail and office property.

At the recent Lodging Conference in Phoenix, I found it interesting how just about everybody continues to lament the significant difference between "bid and ask" as the major rationale for the lack of transactions taking place in the face of unprecedented distressed asset availability.

Kilroy Realty Corp. said Monday that its operating partnership will offer $150 million in senior debt in a private placement to institutional buyers.

Shields EL SEGUNDO, CA-With its securities registration effective earlier this month, Griffin Capital Corp.

YTL Corp Bhd plans to embark on a restructuring of the RM8 billion real estate investment trust and hotel portfolio under its control.

Shares of Real Estate Investment Trusts have rallied almost 90 percent since the market bottomed in March, but the jury is out on whether this recovery is warranted given the difficulties facing commercial real estate.

Anyone who's been paying attention to Wall Street investment strategists' forecasts for 2010 knows that a potential avalanche of commercial real estate foreclosures could hit the market - and the smartest thing to do is get out of the way.

SINGAPORE: MacarthurCook Industrial REIT has rebutted Cambridge Industrial Trust's assertions that its recapitalisation plan is "massively value destructive". MI REIT said on Tuesday that unitholders should not allow themselves to be distracted by analyses that are inaccurate, incomplete and misleading.

The news about U.S. commercial real estate is grim . But distress can lead to opportunity.

President & CEO of Vestin Realty Mortgage II Inc. Michael V Shustek buys 35,000 shares of VRTB on 11/11/2009 at an average price of $2.5 a share.

REITs climbed higher, outpacing gains in the broader markets Wednesday, Nov. 11. In real estate news Terreno Realty Corp.

A severe ongoing credit crunch in commercial real estate lending is hampering recovery, according to a commercial market update at the 2009 REALTORS Conference & Expo.