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5 Reasons Why You Should Know Vornado

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

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Related Topix: Real Estate, Vornado Realty Trust, Personal Finance

Thu Nov 26, 2009

Seeking Alpha

Not Tempted by Hospital Properties Trust's Reinstated Dividend

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

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Related Topix: Personal Finance, Real Estate, Hospitality Properties Trust

The Winnipeg Free Press

Ken Gigliotti Winnipeg Free Press / May 26 2009 - 090526 - Manitoba...

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 ...

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Related Topix: Canada, Personal Finance, Travel

Wed Nov 25, 2009

Kiplinger Online

Diversify Even More

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.

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Related Topix: Financial Markets, Personal Finance, Retirement

KPLR-11

Analyst expects Hospitality Properties Trust to reinstate...

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.

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Related Topix: Real Estate, Hospitality Properties Trust, Newton, MA, Personal Finance

ETF Investor

Allstate Sheds CRE for Bonds: 12 ETFs to Play That

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.

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Related Topix: Allstate, Insurance, Financial Markets, Northbrook, IL, Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance

Tue Nov 24, 2009

Seeking Alpha

Key Points from NYU Commercial Real Estate Capital Markets Conference

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 ...

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Related Topix: Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Real Estate, Equity Residential

Kiplinger Online

How Our No-Stock Portfolio Fared

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

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Related Topix: Financial Markets, Life, Holidays, Thanksgiving, Personal Finance, Food, Recipes

Sun Nov 22, 2009

Investor's Business Daily

REIT IPOs Circling Commercial Failures

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.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance, Mortgage, Home

Sat Nov 21, 2009

Hotel Business

Bid/Ask Chasm Created By Both Buyers And Sellers

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.

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Fri Nov 20, 2009

Los Angeles Business Journal Online -...

Kilroy Realty To Sell $150 Million in Notes

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

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Related Topix: Kilroy Realty Corporation, Real Estate, Personal Finance

Thu Nov 19, 2009

GlobeSt.com

Griffin Capital's New REIT Open for...

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

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Related Topix: Personal Finance, El Segundo, CA

Wed Nov 18, 2009

Business Times

YTL Corp to embark on REIT restructuring

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

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Related Topix: Personal Finance

Seeking Alpha

Paul Curbo: REIT Rally Is Sustainable

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.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage

Tue Nov 17, 2009

BusinessWeek

Commercial REITs: Investing in a Shaky Market

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.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance, Foreclosures, Financial Markets, Home, Mortgage

Channelnewsasia.com

Mi Reit rebuts Cit's claims

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.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance

Mon Nov 16, 2009

BusinessWeek

Commercial Real Estate: Values in Mauled Debt

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

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Related Topix: Financial Markets, Personal Finance, Real Estate, Prologis, Vornado Realty Trust, Kimco Realty

Sun Nov 15, 2009

GuruFocus.com

Vestin Realty Mortgage II Inc. (VRTB) CEO Michael V Shustek buys 35,000 Shares

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.

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Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Financial Services, Las Vegas, NV

Sat Nov 14, 2009

SNL Financial

REIT Replay: Getting in on the industrial game

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

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Related Topix: Personal Finance, Tax, AMB Property, Real Estate, Nationwide Health Properties, Kilroy Realty Corporation

Fri Nov 13, 2009

Market Wire

Commercial Real Estate Market Continues to Suffer From Credit Crunch

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.

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Related Topix: Real Estate, Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance

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