NTR Sales at $271 Million in January, Dominated by Blackstone REIT February 12, 2018 | by James Sprow | Blue Vault Sales by nontraded REITs reported to Blue Vault for January totaled $271 million, almost exactly equal to $271 million in December 2017. Blackstone REIT reported sales of $163 million in January 2018, comprising 60%…

Independent broker-dealers have narrowed the gap between themselves and the wirehouses and are able to attract more quality brokers from the Big Four.

VEREIT, Inc. (NYSE: VER) on February 1 announced that it closed the sale of Cole Capital ("Cole") to an affiliate of CIM Group. VEREIT is a publicly-traded real estate investment trust formerly known as American Realty Capital Properties Inc.

SmartStop Asset Management, LLC (SmartStop) announced today that certain of its affiliates have acquired Aspyre at Assembly Station, a 400-unit, 760-bed student housing community for $64.5 million. The property is within walking distance of the University of South Carolina.

Strategic Storage Growth Trust, Inc., a public non-traded real estate investment trust sponsored by SmartStop Asset Management LLC, announced today its purchase of an 870-unit self storage facility in the Miami suburb of Pembroke Pines, Florida. The facility was completed in early 2018.

Bluerock Residential Growth REIT, Inc. (NYSE MKT: BRG) (the "Company" or "BRG") will release its financial results for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2017 before the market opens on Wednesday, February 14, 2018.

Over the course of his career, [Josh Hoffman] has successfully completed more than 65 sponsored 1031 like-kind exchange security offering programs representing more than $1.4 billion in property value and more than 7.8 million square feet.

In an article posted on Blue Vault’s website in December, 2017, entitled “How An Attack on a Nontraded REIT Sponsor Made a Hedge Fund Manager $60 Million,” we referred readers to a lawsuit filed by United Development Funding LP and its related companies accusing hedge fund manager J. Kyle Bass and his closely held company…

Carter Validus Mission Critical REIT II, Inc. (“CV Mission Critical REIT II”), a non-traded real estate investment trust focused on assembling a portfolio of high-quality data center and healthcare real estate, acquired properties during December 2017 for an aggregate contract purchase price of approximately $73 million, excluding closing costs and related fees.