REIT News

Shares of real-estate investment trusts have been hammered in the past month as interest rates have risen, but few have been hit as hard as companies that own properties leased to single tenants such as fast-food restaurants and convenience stores.

This dividend reflects the Company's forecast of its approximate Core Earnings[1] for the two month period commencing on the pricing of its initial public offering on , the Company's portfolio of mortgage-backed securities was comprised of the following: .

Investors in companies buying mortgage bonds are discovering that coming late to the party can still leave them with the biggest hangover.

It's been an awful six weeks or so for mortgage REITs in general, and a particularly disastrous one for American Capital Agency Corp .

The owner and operator of the largest independent portfolio of wireless communications and broadcast towers in North America,a American Tower Corp , is only up 0.74% year to date, a far cry from the 15.35% return offered by the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

Pure Multi's units are listed on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol RUF.U. Pure Multi currently has 24,089,000 units issued and outstanding.

Public Storage Inc., a self-storage real estate investment trust with more than 2,000 facilities, recently opened the largest facility in its portfolio in Bronx, N.Y. The 12-story facility, 385 Gerard Ave. at E. 144th St., has more than 4,000 units.

A nascent nontraded real estate investment trust has suspended its fund raising as management continues to look for a broker-dealer to distribute the REIT after its former broker-dealer went belly-up.

Eligible investors registered in the DRIP will have their monthly cash distributions used to purchase additional Units, at a 3% discount to the weighted average closing price of the Units, for the five trading days immediately preceding the date of distribution declared by the REIT.

As interest rates have been creeping higher in recent weeks, investors have been running scared from some of the equity-like investments meant to serve as "bond substitutes."

The sale of these rights was made to a privately owned REIT. Proceeds from the sale of these rights are expected to be reflected in the current June quarter of operations.

Ashford Hospitality Trust announced that the company's Board of Directors approved a plan to spin-off an 80 percent ownership interest in an eight-hotel portfolio, totaling 3,146 rooms.

The rate setting committee at the central bank showed willingness to lower reference rates despite the recent weakness in the dollar.

We published a competitive analysis report last year in which we analyzed and evaluated Rayonier , which was a former subsidiary of the old ITT Corporation against its three largest Timber REIT competitors.

On the way to becoming a real estate investment trust in 2010, Weyerhaeuser got out of the fine paper business, closed mills and factories, sold its containerboard, packaging and recycling business and shrank its workforce by 70 percent.

Annaly Capital shares have been sliding since longer term rates started to move higher in early May. Rising rates were sparked by chatter about the Federal Reserve potentially shifting gears away from its expansionary efforts.

KBS Strategic Opportunity REIT purchased the asset for $86 million. Constructed in 1998-99, Westmoor Center is located halfway between Denver and Boulder, Colo.

Share prices took a rather large tumble earlier this month, and insiders of Iron Mountain have been recently taking advantage of these lower prices in order to increase their stake in the company.

The distribution will be paid by Granite on . Granite owns approximately 30 million square feet and 109 properties.

Imperial Capital From our perspective as real-estate investment trust analysts, we believe that the 30-plus year decline in long-term interest rates quite likely ended in the first half ...