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Langham Hospitality Investments, an investment trust controlled by property developer Great Eagle Holdings Ltd, raised about $550 million in an IPO on Thursday, the first of several issuers looking to benefit from a surge in investors' demand for commercial property and high-yield securities in Hong Kong.

If you're looking to sell off your commercial real estate asset this year, chances are a real estate investment trust may show some interest, specifically Phoenix-based Cole Real Estate Investments.

Japan 's real estate investment trusts fell, with the Tokyo Stock Exchange REIT Index dropping the most in eight weeks, after 10-year Japanese government bond yields rose to 1 percent for the first time in a year.

May 22nd 2013 - Edison Investment Research today published a report on Fair Value REIT entitled "Rationalising And Reinvesting". In summary, the report says: FVI offers exposure to German commercial property, with creditworthy tenants in secondary, regional locations, which have seen consistently high occupancy rates in recent years.

Joseph Coradino , the CEO of PREIT tells us why malls are doing well in this retail real estate environment.

GlobeSt.com is providing wall-to-wall coverage of ICSC's RECon show in Las Vegas May 19-22 . Retail Ticket will provide coverage of the event through the end of May, featuring pre-event articles, live video interviews on site and post-conference analysis.

Five independent broker-dealers will pay at least $9.6 million in fines and restitution to settle what Massachusetts' top securities regulator has called their improper sales of non-traded real estate investment trusts, or REITs.

Sales of nontraded real estate investment trusts have again come under the scrutiny of securities regulators as William Galvin, the secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, today announced settlements with five leading independent broker-dealers to make $8.6 million in restitution to investors and pay fines totaling $975,000. The five firms ... (more)

In the first quarter of 2013, David Einhorn , the famous hedge fund manager, initiated long positions in six new stocks, bringing total assets under management to more than $6.5 billion.

Michael Fredericks, portfolio manager for the BlackRock Multi-Asset Income Fund, says bank loans and MLPs are better bets than REITs.

Summit Industrial Income REIT said Wednesday it earned $1.2 million in the first quarter on substantially higher operating revenue and made several major additions to its property portfolio.

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Property trusts across the Asia-Pacific have performed impressively in recent months, led by a surge in the value of Japanese real estate investment trusts .

The Empire State Building is viewed from the observation deck at Rockefeller Center in New York City.

University of California Board of Regents' investment committee approved on Tuesday a significant reduction to its fixed-income exposure to 20% from 65% in its $4.7 billion Total Return Investment Pool.

Fibra Inn paid Ps. 186.9 million for the hotel, excluding taxes and acquisition expenses, and the adjoining land where the Company is planning a room expansion.

Chicago-based Strategic Hotels & Resorts is a luxury hotel real estate investment trust .

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The firm set a "neutral" rating and a $14.50 price target on the stock. The analysts wrote, "We are initiating coverage of Franklin Street Properties , a REIT that owns infill suburban and Central Business District office buildings in 17 US markets, with a Neutral rating and $14.50 PO.