After Macy's deal, affiliated investors sell downtown office buildings for $33.4M Dec 8, 2016, 6:00am PST | Jon Bell | Portland Business Journal An affiliate of the company that just a few weeks ago bought five floors of the iconic Meier & Frank Building in Portland has now sold one of its other downtown assets…

Industrial Property Trust Buys Former Tacoma Sawmill for New Development POSTED ON DECEMBER 13, 2016 BY NELLIE DAY | Rebusiness Online TACOMA, WASH. — Industrial Property Trust (IPT) has purchased a 58-acre former sawmill in Tacoma for an undisclosed sum. The space is located at 733 E. 11th St. IPT plans to build a 1.1 million-square-foot…

The Pack Rat Indicator: Why Hoarding Is a Good Sign No longer just for death, disaster, and divorce, self-storage construction is booming as Americans buy more stuff. December 13, 2016, 4:00 AM EST | by Patrick Clark | Bloomberg For John Bull, a Portland, Ore.-based contractor who specializes in self-storage centers, a typical day entails supervising…

Members of Donald Trump's DOL landing team oppose fiduciary rule While the president-elect's pick to head DOL hasn't said anything about the rule, others on the team have objected to it Dec 14, 2016 @ 1:23 pm | By Mark Schoeff Jr | Investment News Although President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of labor may be a…

Is the traditional full-commission nontraded REIT on the way out? December 8, 2016 | by Thomas Yeatts | S&P Global Market Intelligence More and more nontraded REITs are looking to convert to daily net asset value, or daily NAV, REITs, a next-generation nonlisted product that gives investors the benefits of direct real estate investment but…

Chamber’s CEO: ‘Already Working’ With Trump to Kill DOL Fiduciary Rule DECEMBER 12, 2016 | by Melanie Waddell | ThinkAdvisor U.S. Chamber of Commerce is ‘urging immediate action to undo’ the rule, Thomas Donohue says The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is “already working” with Trump administration transition officials to “undo” the Department of Labor’s fiduciary…

Preferred Apartment Communities, Inc. Announces Agreement to Acquire a Class A Office Building in Atlanta, Georgia December 8, 2016 | Source Preferred Apartment Communities, Inc. | Tucson News Now SOURCE Preferred Apartment Communities, Inc. ATLANTA, Dec. 8, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Preferred Apartment Communities, Inc. (NYSE: APTS) ("PAC" or the "Company") today announced that on December 2,…

Industrial real estate market is at top of its game, says JLL By Jeff Berman, Group News Editor · December 8, 2016 | Logistics Manager The industrial real estate firm pointed to myriad factors for better than good market conditions in 2016, which it said are likely to continue in 2017, including: low interest rates,…

Interval Funds Garnering Advisors' Attention DECEMBER 8, 2016 | KAREN DEMASTERS | Financial Advisor For investors who can forgo daily liquidity in exchange for higher returns, interval funds may be one answer. The popularity of interval funds is growing, but many financial advisors and investors are hesitant to jump in, according to two people who deal with…