Big Data: How Big an Impact for REITs? October 19, 2016 | by Stuart Eisenberg | CREIOnline By Stuart Eisenberg, Partner, BDO USA: How using Big Data enables real estate owners and REITs to better predict, monitor and measure their investments. Big Data is big-time ubiquitous in headlines across industries, but the real estate industry…

Restaurant Chains Get Burned by Overexpansion, New Rivals Glut of eateries, competitors offering prepared meals-to-go create pileup of business casualties Updated Oct. 16, 2016 9:08 p.m. ET | By JULIE JARGON and LILLIAN RIZZO | WSJ The U.S. is having one of its biggest restaurant shakeouts in years, as an oversupply of eateries and new rivals offering…

PAC Grabs Hines REIT’s Last Retail Property October 20, 2016 | by Barbra Murray | Commercial Property Executive The 403,000-square-foot shopping center in Houston traded for $52 million. Houston—Preferred Apartment Communities Inc.’s acquisition of the last remaining retail asset of Hines REIT, which is in the process of dissolving, has reached completion with the purchase of…

Tennessee Cities Emerging as Office, Industrial Powerhouses October 21, 2016 |  Robert Carr | NREIOnline Skyrocketing rents in primary office and industrial markets have pushed tenants, and investors, into high-demand secondary markets. High on the list of such markets is Tennessee. The Nashville office market currently has the nation’s lowest vacancy rate, at 4.7 percent, according to…

Commonwealth Financial eliminates commission-based retirement products in wake of DOL rule Oct 24, 2016 @ 6:37 pm | By InvestmentNews Staff | Investment News Commonwealth Financial Network late Monday said it would stop offering commission-based products in IRAs and qualified retirement plans, making it the latest BD to move more decidedly toward to an advisory platform…

For Multifamily Developers, Where Millennials Will Raise Families is the Billion-Dollar Question Oct 10, 2016 | Jon Banister, DC | Bisnow Earlier this year, Millennials surpassed Baby Boomers as the nation's largest living generation with 75.4 million people in the US between 18-34. Young people today like to rent apartments in urban, amenitized, transit-oriented areas. But the billion-dollar question for multifamily developers is: What…

Finra Submits Elder-Protection Rule to the SEC October 24, 2016 | By Alex Padalka | Financial Advisor IQ Finra has submitted a proposal for SEC approval on amendments to help prevent the financial exploitation of seniors and other vulnerable adults. The industry’s self-regulator wants to require financial institutions to “make reasonable efforts” in getting contact information for…

Slowing Transaction Activity in Seniors Housing: A Pause or New Normal? October 24, 2016 | Beth Burnham Mace | National Real Estate Investor Since peaking at more than $8.7 billion in the middle of 2015, the quarterly pace of acquisitions and dispositions in the seniors housing and care sector has been slowing. At the same time, the…

American Finance Trust, Inc. Announces Expiration Of "Go Shop" Period NEWS PROVIDED BY American Finance Trust, Inc. Oct 24, 2016, 06:00 ET NEW YORK, Oct. 24, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- American Finance Trust, Inc. (the "Company") today announced the expiration of the 45-day "go shop" period set forth in the previously announced merger agreement entered into on…