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…

REIT Returns Falter As Q3 Ends OCTOBER 10, 2016 | BY PAUL BUBNY | GlobeSt.com Barclays and Trepp cite recent underperformance by the REIT sector generally, leading to investor questions about whether real estate trusts and their properties are overvalued. REITs’ debut as a standalone sector within the Global Industry Classification Standard coincided with a stretch…

Broker-dealers deploying advanced cybersecurity measures Tech experts are showing, not just telling, advisers that they are vulnerable to online threats Oct 17, 2016 @ 11:57 am | By Liz Skinner | Investment News The nation's large broker-dealers are helping to protect financial planners from the threat cyber criminals pose to their business, even as advisers themselves tend…

ADISA Issues Call to Action to Stop NASAA’s “One Size Fits All” Proposed REIT Concentration Limits Friday, October 14, 2016 8:24 PM UTC | EconoTimes WASHINGTON, Oct. 14, 2016 -- ADISA, the nation’s largest trade association for the alternative and direct investment space, announced today that the association has created a custom website  for the public…