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Building the Resilient City:
Risks and Opportunities (2-Day)
ULI
9/4/2014
Time TBD
San
Francisco, CA
RealShare:
Bay
Area
9/4/2014
8:00AM-12:00PM
San
Francisco, CA
September
Luncheon
CREW-Seattle
9/11/2014
11:30AM
Seattle,
WA
Be ahead of CRE
trends
Looking
for market information and the latest news? We have a power-packed agenda at
RealShare NEW JERSEY on September
11.
Town
Hall: Economic Growth Update
Hear
industry leaders exploring the future of the market. With incentives in play,
what creates a balance between retention and growth?
New
Development, Redevelopment and Repositioning: The Full Update
September
Cocktail Connect
CREW-Seattle
9/16/2014
5:00PM-8:00PM
Seattle,
WA
2014
September Breakfast Meeting
NAIOP-WA
9/24/2014
7:00AM-9:00AM
Seattle,
WA
2014
Housing Summit (Master Builders Association of King & Snohomish Counties)
Master
Builders
9/23/2014
7:30AM-11:30AM
Bellevue,
WA
Commercial
& Multi-Family Chapter Meeting & Networking
REIA-Seattle
9/25/2014
6:00PM-9:00PM
Seattle,
WA
24th Annual Investor Real
Estate Conference (3-Day Event)
PREA
9/30/2014
TBD
Los
Angeles, CA
Western
Division Conference
ICSC
10/1/2014
TBD
San
Diego, CA
2014
October Community Enhancement Event
NAIOP-WA
10/4/2014
7:30AM
Seattle,
WA
Development
'13: The Annual Meeting for Commercial Real Estate (2-Day Event)
NAIOP
10/7/2014
TBD
San
Diego, CA
Take the
Opportunity to Get Howard Roth’s Perspective
As
an industry veteran, look for sound advice and meaningful discussion when
Howard speaks at RealShare NEW YORK on October 9 at the Roosevelt Hotel
RealShare
APARTMENTS
DATE:
October
15-16, 2014
LOCATION:
Westin
Bonaventure
404
S Figueroa St
Los
Angeles, CA 90071
CCIM
Thrive Fall Conference October 21-22, 2014 Los Angeles, CA
The
CCIM Institute, the premier provider of commercial real estate education, has
teamed up with GlobeSt.com for CCIM Thrive, Oct. 21–22 at the Westin
Bonaventure in Los Angeles. Register to join our national audience of real
estate professionals looking to implement best business practices in an effort
to thrive in an ever competitive marketplace.
RealShare
Industrial 2014
Nov
4-5, 2014
The
Viceroy Miami
We
are all busy gearing up for the fall, so let us make things easy for you.
Register now for RealShare INDUSTRIAL and take advantage of RealShare’s room
block at the Viceroy Miami. Stay with the attendees from across the country and
spend more time networking with the sector’s elite.
Local
The
Wolff Co., an active developer of apartment projects in the Puget Sound region,
has acquired a controlling interest in a major downtown Bellevue project, with
construction scheduled to start soon.
It
was the buyers' first deal and it took them a year to find it. Now, four years
after acquiring Waterfront Place on the shore of Lake Washington in Kirkland,
Talon Private Capital is selling the six-year-old office building.
Three
apartment complexes in the south Seattle area have been purchased by
Kennedy-Wilson Holdings Inc. for $127 million.
Vulcan
Real Estate is now contemplating building a mid-rise office building across the
street from Lake Union Park, though a company official on Monday said that plan
is very preliminary.
The
Gatsby Apartments, a new complex on Seattle's Capitol Hill, sold Thursday for
just over $35.5 million, according to public records.
The
First Presbyterian Church on Tuesday sold a prime development site on the east
side of Interstate 5 in downtown Seattle, public records show.
Washington
Holdings will start building a large lab and office building on the east side
of Seattle's Lake Union in October, Chief Operating Officer Ric Anderson said
Tuesday.
A
Minneapolis company called CSM is the latest real estate developer to jump on
the "let's build a hotel in the Puget Sound region" bandwagon.
Lobsang
Dargey, a former Buddhist monk from rural Tibet who also happens to be Andre
Agassi's brother-in-law, is hitting his stride as a commercial real estate
developer in Seattle, where he has two big apartment projects teed up.
Costco
Warehouses Inc. is expanding in Issaquah, taking over one of the buildings at
Sammamish Park Place that Microsoft had leased and said it was abandoning.
Holland
Partner Group, known in Seattle as a developer of big apartment projects, has
begun building its first-ever office building. The six-story project, 1101
Westlake, will rise along the southwest corner of Lake Union
Weyerhaeuser
plans to sell its large headquarters campus in Federal Way, the company said in
a Tuesday news release announcing Weyerhaeuser's move to Seattle's Pioneer
Square.
When
Seattle real estate developer Touchstone officials said the company was
starting construction of their NorthEdge lab-office project, the question was
what company would move into the building
A
limited liability company led by a Seattle apartment developer on Wednesday
paid $12.4 million for a 105-year-old brick office building by Pike Place
Market.
The
state Court of Appeals this week sided with the city of Kirkland against
Bellevue real estate developer Lobsang Dargey's proposed high-end apartment
project on Lake Washington.
In early May, David
Hamamoto surprised analysts on a conference call with his declaration that his
company, NorthStar Realty Finance Corp. NRF +3.68% , wasn't interested in
acquiring a large real-estate company it had pursued for months.
A Chinese real-estate
investor new to the U.S. is looking to make a splash in downtown Los Angeles,
which has seen a flurry of new development and property sales lately.
In the latest sign
that companies are allowing their executives to travel lavishly again, a new
wave of luxury hotels is set to open in New York and other major cities as
developers seek to cash in on the rejuvenated demand for high-end lodging.
PEARLAND, Texas—The
medical-office sector is undergoing a broad transformation with the rise of
master leases.
After a two-year
buying spree, institutional real-estate investors have cooled off a bit,
according to new figures from RealtyTrac.
When Wayne Ratkovich
bought the 28-acre former headquarters of Hughes Aircraft Co. RTN -0.14% just
north of Los Angeles International Airport with the intent of converting it to
modern office buildings, he figured it would take a while to attract tenants.
Fairway America, LLC
(“Fairway”), a Portland Oregon based small balance real estate fund advisory
and investment firm, announced today that its newest fund, Fairway America Fund
VII, LP (“Fund VII”) has invested in Stallion Texas Real Estate Fund (the
“Fund”) of Austin Texas, a fund Fairway helped create and launch.
After several false
starts, the economy is finally gaining ground, and stronger growth is boosting
the outlook for all of the major commercial real estate sectors, according to
the National Association of REALTORS®’ quarterly commercial real estate
forecast.
TUSTIN, CA—As tenants
with increased parking needs—like health clubs, medical office and
restaurants—pick up slack in retail centers, issues over parking emerge,
experts tell GlobeSt.com
TUSTIN, CA—Many
retail landlords are dusting themselves off from the recession and are now
ready to put money into design improvements at their centers, according to Matt
Hammond, director of retail brokerage for Coreland Cos.
MUMBAI—Encouraged
by India's strengthening economy and the pro-business agenda of Prime Minister
Narendra Modi, foreign investors have begun to return to the India real-estate
market after fleeing the country in the wake of the financial crisis
When
Yash Gupta was preparing to head a new India office for Gerald Hines, the
legendary real-estate developer told him, "I don't want any home runs
yet," Mr. Gupta recalls. "If you swing for the fences you'll end up
making mistakes."
MUMBAI—
Narendra Modi has been the prime minister of India for less than three months,
but already he has endeared himself to real-estate investors and developers by
pressing to create a real-estate-investment-trust industry in the country.
Forest
City Ratner Cos.' giant, 6,400-unit development near the new Barclays Center in
Brooklyn has faced delays for over a decade.
SHANGHAI—A
group of foreign investors suffered steep losses when it recently exited a
Chinese property fund once valued at $1 billion, according to the fund's
adviser, in a cautionary tale for those seeking to profit from China's
real-estate market.
SHANGHAI—The
glut of vacant homes across China owned by small investors has fueled a cottage
industry: companies that help owners rent their homes for short-term stays
DUBAI—Next
to the fishing dhows along the waterfront of this city's creek, a villa with
six bedrooms and three pools is selling for $15 million—part of a $600 million
Palazzo Versace hotel and condo development, with 215 hotel rooms and 169
condos and villas.
Aug
27 (Reuters) - Global private equity giant Carlyle Group is in advanced talks
with China Vanke Co Ltd, the country's largest developer, to buy stakes in nine
of its shopping malls, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter told
Reuters.
A
U.S. real-estate investor could become one of the largest hotel owners in
Brazil if the firm succeeds in a tender offer that values Brazil Hospitality
Group BHGR3.BR -0.40% at $1 billion.
Slate Retail REIT ("Slate Retail"
the "REIT") (TSX: SRT.U / SRT.UN) today announced that it has
successfully completed the previously announced acquisition of a
grocery-anchored shopping center located in Waterbury, Connecticut.
MultiFamily
Slowly
but surely, lenders are regaining their appetite for risk in South Florida's
red-hot new-condominium market.
The
battle over the stalled Chicago Spire project, one of the most high-profile
real-estate developments clobbered by the downturn, has taken another step
toward being resolved.
Developers
are building apartment units at breakneck speed to fill Houston’s housing
shortage and demand for resort-style living.
MCLEAN,
VA--(Marketwired - Aug 6, 2014) - Freddie Mac (OTCQB: FMCC) today priced a new
offering of Structured Pass-Through Certificates ("K Certificates"),
backed exclusively by LIBOR-based, floating rate multifamily mortgages with
five- and seven-year terms.
If
you're looking for income but don't want to take on much risk, consider small
apartment REITs.
By
now, analysts had expected sales of multifamily properties to cool as a large
number of newly built projects opened to renters, but that is not happening.
The
Houghtons, the family that founded glassmaker Corning eight generations ago,
run their multifamily office like a co-op. That's not a gimmick. Market Street
Trust, as the multifamily office is called, manages $1.3 billion for 40
families.
Bob
Aumiller, president of MacKenzie Commercial Real Estate Services LLC, is the
latest real estate expert to voice concern about the multifamily housing market
in the Baltimore area.
After
plunging in June, housing starts and housing permits recovered in July,
printing at 1,093,000 and 1,052,000, respectively.
MCLEAN,
VA--(Marketwired - Jul 31, 2014) - Freddie Mac (OTCQB: FMCC) released today its
mid-year multifamily outlook, showing a strong market with vacancy rates at a
13-year low, a large cohort of young adult renters and potential renters, and a
continued demand for apartments that is expected to meet the new supply of
units being constructed.
WASHINGTON, DC—US REITs outperformed the
broader equity markets for the first six months of 2014, according to NAREIT,
driven by strong fundamentals in the sector and a favorable economic
environment.
MUMBAI—
Narendra Modi has been the prime minister of India for less than three months,
but already he has endeared himself to real-estate investors and developers by
pressing to create a real-estate-investment-trust industry in the country.
It's
been a while since I wrote on Kimco Realty (NYSE:KIM), the New York-based REIT
and the nation's largest landlord of shopping centers. If you recall, I wrote
an article on Kimco with the title, "Nobody Does It Better" (over two
years ago)
We prefer the yield, stability, and growth
prospects of the triple-net structure over RIDEA.
American Realty Capital Properties, Inc is a
REIT which operates in two segments, Real Estate Investment ("REI")
and Cole Capital, the company's private capital management segment.
With over 25 years of experience investing in
shopping centers I have learned the difference between a good, a bad, and an
ugly retail center.
American Realty Capital Properties
(NASDAQ:ARCP) is the leading net-lease retail real estate investment trust, or
REIT, domiciled in the United States.
However, within my short-list of best CEOs
there is one that stands out above the rest. This favored REIT executive has
not only demonstrated an extraordinary track record of dividend performance,
State securities regulators are pushing for
restrictions on a popular type of property investment trust, saying added
protections are needed for small investors who may not fully understand the
risks.
A new Nashville-based company formed to
invest in health care properties has raised nearly $164 million and made its
first five acquisitions.
If
you're looking for income but don't want to take on much risk, consider small
apartment REITs.
Slate Retail REIT ("Slate Retail"
the "REIT") (TSX: SRT.U / SRT.UN) today announced that it has
successfully completed the previously announced acquisition of a
grocery-anchored shopping center located in Waterbury, Connecticut.
Total spending on private
construction projects declined 1% in June 2014 to a seasonally adjusted annual
rate of $685.5 billion, compared with $692.0 billion the previous month.
Farmland values in the U.S.
Midwest remained mostly stagnant in the second quarter, the latest sign of a
slowdown in the market after a multiyear boom, according to Federal Reserve
reports on Thursday.
TUSTIN, CA—As tenants with increased
parking needs—like health clubs, medical office and restaurants—pick up slack
in retail centers, issues over parking emerge, experts tell GlobeSt.com.
A new hotel brand thinks it can
win a devoted following by offering guests a chance to relive the college
experience.
The economy expanded even more
rapidly than previously estimated in the second quarter, the government said
Thursday
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