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Sometimes, you can trace particular moments in a company's trading history and find periods of time when even excellent companies would look like terrible investments.

In the near term, the CMBS financing market's acceptance of pro forma assumptions may be indicative of increased risk appetites, improving the already strong liquidity of REITs and driving additional cap rate compression in secondary asset classes/markets that are more dependent upon CMBS.

The devastating tornado that killed at least 24 people and damaged as many as 13,000 homes in Oklahoma on Monday appears to have been in the path of only five real-estate investment trust properties, while almost 20 other properties narrowly avoided the storm track, according to a new analysis released on Thursday.

Agency mortgage REITs are entities that invest in a portfolio of mortgage backed securities that are directly or indirectly backed by the government, financed with short term repos against these securities.

Among the many markets spooked by some tough-to-decipher Federal Reserve messages yesterday, agency mortgage-backed securities sold off as that market fears the Fed could cut back on its mortgage-bond purchases.

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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.