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Tracking Change

Collecting data from commercial real estate is essential to help management make the best decision about holding, selling, and making improvements or other revenue-enhancing decisions that eventually affect the company’s bottom line.

Fitch Findings: QE3 a Good Thing for Equity REITS

According to global rating agency Fitch Ratings, QE3 will have a meaningful impact on equity REITs.

Sound Investments

Source: Real Capital Analytics

Wag the Tail, Not the Dog: Critical Decisions for Foreign Investors in U.S. Real Estate

By Cindy L. Spetalnick, CPA, Tax Principal at Gumbiner Savett Inc.: The four most common ownership options for foreigners acquiring real estate in the United States.

Hotel REITs Have Room to Run

Tim Southard, Senior Vice President of Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels: Lodging REITS have emerged from the banking crisis of 2008 with zero debt.

Pittsburgh Versus Phoenix

Robert Bach, National Director, Market Analytics at Newmark Grubb Knight Frank: Which city is a better investment today, post the Great Recession, Phoenix or Pittsburgh? If you think you know the answer, think again.

Institutional Investors Look to Net-Leased Property

By Brandon Duff, Director, Stan Johnson Co.: In a shaky economy such as this one, yield-driven investors are more likely to put their money into single-tenant, net-leased real estate.

IPO Scorecard: Offerings by year since 2004

First Filings (Commercial real estate IPOs, 2004-2012) Since the most recent heyday eight years ago, initial public offerings by REITs have tailed off significantly, according to SNL Financial and the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts. The 29 IPOs launched in 2004 were more than the combined total of the next four years. After recording only a pair of IPOs in the capital markets meltdown year of 2008, REITs have rebounded to launch eight or nine in the three full years since.

New Players: IPOs completed 2011-2012

New Players: IPOs completed 2011-12