Economy Watch: HQ2 Could Raise Rents in Some Apartment Markets October 20, 2017 | D.C. Stribling | Commercial Property Executive Bids to be the home of Amazon’s second headquarters, HQ2, were due on Thursday, and more than 50 cities (or metros with various polities collaborating) put in for what’s probably the biggest site selection prize of…

Advisors Paying More for Compliance October 9, 2017 | Diana Britton | WealthManagement.com When President Trump was elected, some broker/dealers and advisors thought it would usher in an era favorable to financial services, with a pullback in regulatory reach and a return to a “friendlier” legal environment for small businesses. “I think everybody said, ‘All…

Investors holding $540b of pent-up capital demand for commercial real estate October 2017 | Institutional Real Estate, Inc.  JLL Gobal’s global capital markets experts have totaled an estimated $540 billion in capital that LP investors are holding to place into commercial real estate investments across the globe. Investors across the globe still view commercial real…

Private real estate investors driving up values in ‘safe havens’ October 2017 | Andrea Waitrovich | Institutional Real Estate, Inc. Private investors into commercial real estate may be forced to look beyond the world’s leading cities for better value, according to new data from Knight Frank’s 2018 Global Cities report. “Our analysis demonstrates that private investors remain…

Merged MVP REITs I and II to be Renamed “The Parking REIT, Inc.” October 24, 2017 | James Sprow | Blue Vault As previously disclosed, the shareholders of MVP REIT, Inc. ("MVP I") voted on September 27, 2017 to approve the previously announced proposed merger of MVP I with and into a wholly-owned merger subsidiary…

Carter Validus Mission Critical REIT, Inc. Announces Definitive Agreement to Sell Chicago Data Center for Approximately $315,000,000 and a Definitive Agreement to Sell a 14-Property Data Center Portfolio for Approximately $750,000,000 October 24, 2017 | Carter Validus TAMPA, Fla.--Carter Validus Mission Critical REIT, Inc. (the “Company”) announced today that it has entered into a definitive purchase…

What Can Past Real Estate Construction Cycles Tell Us About the Outlook For REITs Today? October 2017 | Calvin Schnure | REIT.com Commercial real estate has gone through many boom/bust cycles in the past. These cycles have inevitably affected the performance of REITs through their impact on rents, vacancy rates and property valuations. There are…

Survey Finds Executives Still Bullish on Real Estate Market October 11, 2017 | Allen Kenney | REIT.com In the latest episode of The REIT Report: NAREIT's Weekly Podcast, John Sullivan, chairman of DLA Piper’s real estate practice, discussed the results of the firm’s annual survey of real estate executives. Sullivan said the survey showed that real…

KBS Debuts KBSDirect.com Real Estate Investment Portal October 23, 2017 | Markets Insider NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., Oct. 23, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- KBS, one of the nation's largest and most respected commercial real estate companies and ranked by National Real Estate Investor as the 11th largest commercial real estate company in the United States as of April 20, 2017,  today debuted…