Colony NorthStar to Merge Two NTRs and Selected Colony NorthStar Assets to Create Listed REIT August 28, 2017 | James Sprow | Blue Vault Colony NorthStar Inc., NorthStar Real Estate Income Trust Inc. and NorthStar Real Estate Income II Inc. have entered into a definitive transaction to form Colony NorthStar Credit Real Estate Inc. Under…

The MOB Cure: CBRE Report August 24, 2017 | Scott Baltic | Commercial Property Executive   With “U.S. Medical Office Buildings: A Cure for Market Volatility,” CBRE has presented its first-ever report on the U.S. medical office market, a nearly 60-page in-depth look at a product type that has matured from niche to mainstream in…

Cap Rates: The Story’s In The Details August 24, 2017 | Paul Bubny | GlobeSt.com LOS ANGELES—The cap rate story for the first half of this year is in the details, rather than overarching trends. And that’s expected to be the case as well when transactions in the year’s second half are tallied up, going…

The 7 Secrets of Content Marketing  August 23, 2017 | Megan Carpenter | Investment News Here's something that happens to me a lot: I finally convince an adviser to try content marketing. Then I have to talk them down off the ledge once they realize the whole world will be able to read everything they…

Griffin Capital BDC Sets Date for Vote to Transfer Assets to a Griffin Interval Fund August 25, 2017 | James Sprow | Blue Vault Griffin Capital BDC Corp., a publicly registered non-traded business development company formerly known as Griffin-Benefit Street Partners BDC Corp., is preparing for its upcoming special meeting of stockholders where investors will…

Strategic Storage Growth Trust Purchases 840-unit Facility in Massachusetts August 24, 2017 | James Sprow | Blue Vault Strategic Storage Growth Trust, Inc. (“SSGT”), a public non-traded real estate investment trust sponsored by SmartStop Asset Management, LLC, announced on August 23 its purchase of an 840-unit self storage facility in Nantucket, Massachusetts. “The acquisition of…

Baby Boomers Can Make an Impact in Multifamily August 8, 2017 | Tim Blackwell | Property Management Insider Millennials are grabbing all the front page multifamily headlines, but the industry should look inside a little deeper at a demographic that is already making news and plans to stay in the limelight for the next several…

How the Financial-Services Industry Is Using Social Media August 11, 2017 | Amy McIllwain | Wealth Management Social media has transformed the financial-services sector in several significant ways, from improving customer service to creating an entire subsection of financial-technology providers. Social media is no longer optional, it’s a necessity. But with such a high level of penetration…

July Sees Slump In Multifamily Starts August 16, 2017 | Paul Bubny | GlobeSt.com [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="616"] Census Bureau headquarters. (Photo: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP)[/caption]   WASHINGTON, DC—A sharp drop in construction starts for multifamily properties brought groundbreakings overall down by 4.8% during July, according to data released Wednesday by the Census Bureau…