The Securities and Exchange Commission today voted to propose a package of rulemakings and interpretations designed to enhance the quality and transparency of investors’ relationships with investment advisers and broker-dealers while preserving access to a variety of types of advice relationships and investment products.

Blue Vault reports sales for Interval Funds and nontraded Closed-End Funds reported by 10 fund sponsors in March. March sales of these funds that were reported to Blue Vault totaled $184.2 million, up 7.6% from the $171.2 million reported in February for the same sample of programs.

In a filing on April 13, Steadfast Apartment REIT announced an estimated value per share of $15.18 as of December 31, 2017. This amount is another in a series of steadily increasing share valuations since the REIT ceased offering shares on March 24, 2016. The previous valuation on December 31, 2016, was $14.85 per share.

In an April 17 press release, Carter Validus Mission Critical REIT II, Inc. (CV Mission Critical REIT II), a public, non-traded real estate investment trust announced that on March 14 it had acquired the Rancho Cordova Data Center Portfolio for a contract purchase price of approximately $51 million, which excludes acquisition fees and costs.

American Healthcare Investors and Griffin Capital Company, LLC, the co-sponsors of Griffin-American Healthcare REIT IV, Inc., announced on April 13 that the REIT has acquired Sauk Prairie Medical Office Building, which consists of a Class A, on-campus medical office building located in the Wisconsin village of Prairie du Sac, near Madison, for $19.5 million.

Griffin Capital Company, LLC announced today, on behalf of Griffin Capital Essential Asset REIT, Inc. (the “REIT”), the acquisition of the McKesson Scottsdale Campus consisting of two, two-story, Class A office buildings, at a purchase price of $67.0 million from Ryan Companies US, Inc.

Forget your fancy office towers. The future lies in warehouses.

Sonia Barros, assistant director, division of corporation finance, at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), participated in a video interview at Nareit's REITwise: 2018 Law, Accounting & Finance Conference in Hollywood, Florida.

When the board of directors of CNL Healthcare Properties II announced the estimated NAV per share for all share classes as of December 31, 2017, at $10.06, it followed a pattern in NAV appreciation observed earlier with CNL Healthcare Properties, Inc.