REITs May Pay Dividends in Stock to Save Cash
by In a Bloomberg story By Hui-yong Yu, REITs in U.S. Consider Paying Dividends in Stock to Save Cash, many publicly traded REITs may take advantage …
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Health Care REIT, Inc. Added to S&P 500
Standard & Poor’s announced that Health Care REIT Inc. (NYSE:HCN) will replace Sovereign Bancorp Inc.(NYSE:SOV) in the S&P 500. Standard & Poor’s Announces Changes to …
New Law Liberalizes REIT Provisions
by Last week, President Bush signed the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 [html] [pdf] into law. You have heard about all of the programs …
Real Estate Opportunity Fund Performance
Stephane Fitch of Forbes.com put together a sensationalist piece on real estate opportunity funds: The Other Real Estate Disaster. Fitch puts together some interesting numbers …
REIT.com
NAREIT has collected a bunch of information and sites under one umbrella site: REIT.com. (Watch out for the music on the opening page!) According to …
A Tale of Two Property Markets
While commercial property owners are worried about property market, much of the commercial property market remains stable or strong. In contrast, the residential market is …
REITs still have a Buy Rating
In another sign that the commercial real estate sector is not in the same trouble as the residential sector, many REITs still have good ratings …
REsource magazine
The latest issue of Goodwin Procter’s REsource magazine has been released. Here are the articles in this issue: Green Building: Now on Firm Footingby Rachael …
REITs and Joint Ventures
Arleen Jacobius of PIonline.com reports on institutional investors entering into joint ventures with REITs to as an alternative to direct real estate investments: Joint Ventures …
REIT Stocks Continue to Tumble
On Tuesday, the MSCI US REIT Index (RMZ) dropped 5.61% to 914.85, and the SNL US REIT Equity Index plummeted 5.59% to 235.96 with five …
Webcasts from NAREIT Annual Convention
The NAREIT Annual Convention was held in Las Vegas on November 14-16. Webcasts of the presentations are available on the NAREIT website: http://nareit.454creative.net/ Gil Menna …
REIT Joint Ventures Unfazed By Credit Market Tumult
According to this article in Retail Traffic Magazine, REIT Joint Ventures Unfazed By Credit Market Tumult. I have done a fair amount of work with …