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Mortgage REITs’ Potential New Role
Housing Finance Market Secondary mortgage market investors provide 75 percent of capital to the U.S. housing market. REITs’ holdings of Agency MBS grew from $40 billion in 2005 to nearly $200 billion...
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Suburban Renewal
While the days of fields being plowed into office parks may seem like distant memories following the Great Recession, some industry analysts and investors are warming up to the idea that the suburban...
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Retail REITs Seeing Green
When Whole Foods Market began to expand its footprint by rolling out stores in the early 2000s that garnered the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design)...
View ArticleMedical Care Demand Provides Stability for Health Care REITs
Demographics and steady demand have, in part, immunized the health care property sector against the pressures of the economic downturn. “Health care REITs are not completely recession-proof, but they...
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No Vacancy: Lack of Supply Pushes Lodging Sector Higher
When the financial world reeled in 2008 and 2009, one of the hardest hit commercial property sectors was the hotel industry. Not only did businesses immediately begin slashing their budgets for...
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Technology: Boosting REITs’ Presence in Self-Storage Sector
Mobile apps, sophisticated call centers and revenue management systems are heightening the appeal of self-storage REITs as an attractive real estate investment opportunity. “About 10 years ago, the...
View ArticleDemographics Weigh in Favor of Multifamily
After hitting a record high of 69 percent during the previous decade, U.S. homeownership rates have dipped to about 65 percent today. Predictably, multifamily REITs reaped benefits from the dislocation...
View ArticleE-commerce Growth Drives Demand for Industrial Space
As the U.S. economy gradually recovers from a severe recession and businesses act to meet the rising demand for consumer goods, demand for industrial space has also been slowly on the upswing. In fact,...
View ArticleMortgage REITs’ Increasing Role
Financial markets have had a case of the jitters any time officials at the Federal Reserve discuss a possible end to the quantitative easing program, and mortgage REITs have been particularly sensitive...
View ArticleCBD is A-OK in these Fast-Growing Office Markets
Whether the U.S. economy is experiencing a “jobless recovery” is up for debate. What is not, however, is that hiring by businesses has been lackluster as they continue the long road back from the...
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