REIT News

Short for "umbrella partnership real estate investment trust," an UPREIT is an alternative to a section 1031 like-kind exchange as a way to defer or completely avoid capital gains tax liability when an individual or company wants to sell appreciated real estate.

We are keeping a close eye on insiders in real estate investment trusts in light of rising bond rates.

Commercial real estate has turned into a hot asset class and many fear that the market could be forming a bubble.

Deutsche Bank Mexico, S.A., Banking Institution, Trust Division F/1616 or Fibra Inn, a Mexican real estate investment trust, has completed the acquisition of the Holiday Inn Express Playa del Carmen Hotel.

An uptrend in long-term interest rates is undermining the appeal of real estate investment trusts, causing regional banks and other financial institutions to stay on the sidelines.

Loblaw Companies Ltd. filed a preliminary prospectus Friday aimed at creating one of Canada's largest commercial real estate trusts including some 75 per cent of the company's real estate assets.

The property at 3785 Pheasant Ridge Drive NE in Blaine, which was completed in 2009, is fully leased to PTC Inc.

In trading on Thursday, shares of CommonWealth REIT's 7 1/4% Series E Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Shares were yielding above the 7% mark based on its quarterly dividend , with shares changing hands as low as $25.89 on the day.

Kiler Holding, the main shareholder of Kiler Alisveris and Kiler REIT, announced that they have pledged 13.1mn of their Kiler REIT shares to a bank in favor of Kiler Alisveris.

Boy, it seems that the word "bubble" has been used in Seeking Alpha titles quite a bit.

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Sometimes, you can trace particular moments in a company's trading history and find periods of time when even excellent companies would look like terrible investments.

In the near term, the CMBS financing market's acceptance of pro forma assumptions may be indicative of increased risk appetites, improving the already strong liquidity of REITs and driving additional cap rate compression in secondary asset classes/markets that are more dependent upon CMBS.

The devastating tornado that killed at least 24 people and damaged as many as 13,000 homes in Oklahoma on Monday appears to have been in the path of only five real-estate investment trust properties, while almost 20 other properties narrowly avoided the storm track, according to a new analysis released on Thursday.

Agency mortgage REITs are entities that invest in a portfolio of mortgage backed securities that are directly or indirectly backed by the government, financed with short term repos against these securities.

Among the many markets spooked by some tough-to-decipher Federal Reserve messages yesterday, agency mortgage-backed securities sold off as that market fears the Fed could cut back on its mortgage-bond purchases.

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