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Faris Lee, Others Expand Capital Markets Reach
Faris Lee Investments is one of several firms broadening its horizons in the capital markets field.
UpREITs: Tax-Driven Conversions for Property Owners
By Rich Murphy, Calkain Asset Management
One of the more under-discussed aspects of the REIT is how it can benefit a seller of real estate. By contributing a property to a REIT, you can achieve many of the same benefits associated with a 1031 Exchange including deferral of gain recognition, not to mention several other potential advantages.
Healthcare REITs: Greater Scale and Diversification are Credit Positive
By Lori Marks, Moody’s Investors Service
Property sub-type diversification is especially important for healthcare REITs as each of the segments has different profit drivers and unique risk profiles.
Looking at the Drivers of Real Estate
By Paul Daneshrad, StarPoint Properties L.L.C.
I learned early on from one of my peers that identifying the drivers in your business and measuring them are the keys to success. You can manage what you can’t measure.
Community Banks and CRE Loans: Lending Challenges
By Tom Ivory, Regents Bank
Over the last few years much has been written about the role several of our nation’s largest banks, money centers, mortgage companies, etc. played in the subprime debacle and near financial collapse of our banking system. Conversely there has been very little written about the fact that community banks played little if any role in creating these problems.
CPE TV: Rising Interest in Net Lease Deals
Guy Ponticiello, managing director of corporate finance & net lease, Jones Lang LaSalle, expects more compression in the sector as interest grows even stronger in 2011.
From The Inside: Can Property Taxes Be Fair?
Raymond Gray, a partner with Austin, Texas law firm Popp, Gray & Hutcheson L.L.P., discusses the tax process.