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Mapletree is also open to tweaking the fee income model of its other existing Reits to the MGCCT model, if unitholders request the change, he added.

Brandywine Realty Trust has placed its Austin suburban office portfolio on the market with an unusual marketing proposition.

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - Resource Real Estate Opportunity , a Philadelphia-based real estate investment trust, has acquired Hoover's Autumn Wood Apartments complex in an $8.5 million deal, the REIT announced today.

It's hard to argue REITs should not be in your core portfolio when the dividend-centric sector is crushing just about all other well known asset classes.

Mortgage REITs are an interesting investment sector with periods of both exceptional performance and devastating crashes.

One of Wexford's projects is the 242,000-square-foot Wake Forest Biotech Place, an adaptive reuse of two former R.J. Reynolds warehouses.

The firm set an "equal weight" rating on the stock. The analysts wrote, "Aviv REIT completed its IPO on March 21st and with the stock up 22% since pricing, we see risk-reward as currently balanced and initiate with an Equal-weight rating and $26 price target.

Ares Commercial Real Estate Corporation announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire EF&A Funding, L.L.C, d/b/a Alliant Capital LLC from The Alliant Company, LLC and Alliant, Inc., for approximately $62.8 million through a combination of cash and stock.

A year ago, the Federal Reserve Board issued a policy statement on rental of REO owned by the banks they supervise and allowed the banks to rent REO properties without requiring them to demonstrate continuous efforts to market the properties.

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Lightstone Value Plus Real Estate Investment Trust announced the acquisition of two Marriott-branded hotels in Baton Rouge, Louisiana for $15.6 million.

With the recent closings, the firm continues to see strong transaction volume in the hotel real estate sector.

In Asia, REITs are gaining popularity because both Singapore and Hong Kong have performed very well in recent years as recipients of real estate investors from markets such as China, the Philippines and Indonesia due in large part of central bank policy which target the U.S. dollar directly in the case of Hong Kong, or U.S. interest rate policy, in ... (more)

The Baird/STR Hotel Stock Index reported a 0.4-percent increase in April to 2,784. Year-to-date 2013, the Baird/STR Hotel Stock Index is up 13.7 percent.

In a frantic search for yields, investors often turn toward relatively unknown products.

The HOPE initiative, a program started by the administration of Gov. Martin O'Malley to preserve homeownership by helping prevent foreclosures, was awarded the Maryland Access to Justice Commission's Executive Branch Award for 2013.

Analysts at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods state that they believe fears about a Federal Reserve Board exit from its mortgage-backed securities holdings in the near future 'are overdone.' Mortgage real estate investment trusts invest in similar paper that the Fed is and this is affecting their valuation.

Currently, the Company's portfolio of 46 properties comprises 36 shopping malls, seven community and power centers, and three development properties.

With the recent fears of pressure on mortgage real estate investment trusts due to fears of increasing rates that would diminish profit margins, I have begun to share my thoughts on the space.

VSR Financial Services Inc. , Berthel Fisher & Co. Financial Services Inc. and the Cetera Financial Group Inc., which has four independent-contractor broker-dealers under its umbrella, this year have revised policies or added new guidelines and procedures for the sale of certain alternatives, such as nontraded real estate investment trusts.