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…

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…

Investment Program Association Honors Mark Goldberg with Lifetime Achievement Award Rosemarie Thurston and Todd Lockwood Honored with Outstanding Service Award Oct 19, 2016, 11:05 ET | NEWS PROVIDED BY Investment Program Association (IPA) ELLICOTT CITY, Md., Oct. 19, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- The Investment Program Association (IPA) is proud to honor Mark Goldberg, Chairman of Carey Financial,…

REITs Poised For More Gains, Driven By Demographics OCTOBER 17, 2016 | BY NATALIE DOLCE | GlobeSt.com CHICAGO—Millennials and seniors are seen as key drivers for the REIT market, underpinning demand for multifamily housing and senior care facilities Despite some uncertainty about US Federal Reserve plans for interest rates in December and a slight slowdown…

Investors still upping real estate allocation, but more defensively — survey BY ARLEEN JACOBIUS | OCTOBER 18, 2016 1:24 PM | UPDATED 1:32 PM Worldwide institutional investors' average target allocation to real estate is expected to reach 10.3% in 2017, up from 9.9% this year and 9.5% in 2015, according to Cornell University's Baker Program…