Can an Income Property Rescue Your Retirement? August 29, 2017 | Rebecca Lake | U.S. News & World Report Stocks are soaring but for many investors, real estate is king. Twenty-eight percent of investors say real estate is the best place to invest money they won’t need for the next 10 years, according to Bankrate. Stocks came…

KBS REIT II Recommends Rejection of Tender Offer August 30, 2017 | James Sprow | Blue Vault KBS Real Estate Investment Trust II Inc. is urging its stockholders to reject MacKenzie Realty Capital Inc.'s mini-tender offer for up to 2.5 million shares of the company's common stock. The bidder is offering to buy the shares…

Personality Traits Of Commercial Real Estate CEOs August 28, 2017 | Natalie Dolce | GlobeSt.com There are many unique personalities in the executive suites of CRE investment and development companies. CRE is a difficult entrepreneurial business and most individuals who become CEO’s derive their character and personality traits from this experience and their upbringing. In…

Income and Capital Appreciation from Real Estate Investing: The Participation Trophy and the Performance Record August 29, 2017 | Brad Case | REIT.com Recently I was looking at marketing materials for a core private equity real estate investment fund touting a so-called “benefit” that was, to put it bluntly, weird: the manager boasted that “income…

Black Creek Group Issues 2Q17 Real Estate Market Cycle Report August 30, 2017 | Black Creek Group DENVER — August 30, 2017 — Black Creek Group, a Denver-based real estate investment management firm, announced today the issuance of real estate investment strategist Dr. Glenn Mueller’s 2Q17 Real Estate Market Cycle Report. For more than 20…

Lincoln Financial loses $300 million, 20 reps to ProEquities August 30, 2017 | Jeff Benjamin | Investment News After 17 years with Lincoln Financial Securities, Bill Pickering has decided his $300 million-plus wealth management practice will be better served by a new broker-dealer relationship at ProEquities of Birmingham, Ala. Mr. Pickering, president of First Summit…

“Nervous” Time For Grocery Investors August 29, 2017 | Kelsi Maree Borland | GlobeSt.com   Grocery has been the pillar of retail, but with the new Amazon/Whole Foods merger, that may change. Jeff Rinkov, CEO of Lee & Associates, says that this may be a nervous time for the handful of investors that focus solely on grocery…

Nearly 9,000 SNL-covered real estate properties in Hurricane Harvey's path August 25, 2017 | Chris Hudgins | SNL.com More than 8,800 SNL-covered real estate properties lie in Hurricane Harvey's projected five-day path. Single-family rental homes comprise the largest category of properties potentially affected, followed by single-tenant retail. Current projections show the hurricane, rated a Category…

Shopping For Data: The Truth Behind Online Costs August 10, 2017 | Tom McGee | Forbes The chatter around the diminishing future of brick and mortar retail got served up again in a misleading piece on the costs of doing business online. This time, the narrative focuses on failing brick and mortar chains and their…