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May 14, 2015
Secondary Markets
Shareholders in nontraded REITs have limited options when attempting to liquidate some or all of their common stock holdings. While most nontraded REITs have share redemption programs, these programs may have been suspended due to liquidity issues or restricted to redemption requests filed due to death, disability or other hardships. Blue Vault reports on the…
May 12, 2015
Why Invest in a REIT?
There are a number of reasons to invest in REITs. The following are some of the main characteristics that have attracted investors to REITs through the years. Tax Treatment A REIT is a company formed to use investors’ pooled funds to invest them in properties. In the process, they can qualify for certain tax advantages in the…
May 12, 2015
Crowdfunding in the Real Estate Arena
The Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act was intended to facilitate funding of small businesses by easing regulations. It was passed and signed into law on April 5, 2012. Title II of the JOBS Act went into effect on September 23, 2013, lifting a decades-old ban on the mass marketing of securities offerings. Title III…
May 11, 2015
Business Development Company (BDC) History
Business Development Company (BDC) History A business development company (BDC) is an SEC-registered investment company that invests in primarily private U.S.-based businesses. This form of company was created by Congress in 1980 as amendments to the Investment Company Act of 1940. BDCs are typically taxed as regulated investment companies (RICs). Similar to REITs, BDCs are required…
May 11, 2015
Types of REITs
REITs can vary by two main factors: 1. What they invest in, and 2. How they're organizationally structured Let’s look at these two factors and discuss the potential advantages of each. What they invest in REITs can invest either in properties/hard assets or they can invest in lending/debt. The first kind is known as an…
May 11, 2015
What Is a REIT?
The term REIT is short for Real Estate Investment Trust—it’s pronounced “REET.” As an investor, you may have seen REITs offered as an option within your 401(k), or sometimes, financial advisors recommend REITs to their clients. A REIT is very similar to a mutual fund. While a mutual fund may invest in a variety of…
March 19, 2015
Traded REIT Premiums and Discounts to NAVs – Reading the Tea Leaves
Full-cycle events within the nontraded REIT sector provide interesting and potentially valuable insights. Whenever a nontraded REIT lists its shares on a public exchange, or merges with a listed company, the market valuation of its shares is revealed after years of reporting share prices based upon the original issue price or subsequent “NAV” reports based…
October 23, 2014
What’s MFFO and Why Should I Care?
In investing as in sports, a few people tend to focus on statistics while most don’t, but we all care about winning and losing. There are some numbers that reveal a lot about whether we’re winning or losing, and some numbers that only the “stats geeks,” or in the case of investing, the analysts, seem…
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