Institutional capital has been pouring into the commercial real estate sector recently, helping push investment sales volumes up each year since the downturn. But it’s another pool of capital—funds from high net worth individuals and family offic...

One of the big stories in the net lease REIT sector is the merger between the publicly traded American Realty Capital Properties (NASDAQ: ARCP) and Cole Real Estate Investments (NYSE: COLE). The merger, which closed this month, creates one...

Although rising interest rates have had a limited impact on the commercial real estate market overall, one casualty of the increases has been publicly traded REITs. A recent report from SNL Financial, a Charlottesville, Va.-based...

FINRA issues long-awaited rule on REIT values

One of the biggest stories buzzing through the non-traded REIT industry is the fact that the industry hit a $20 billion high water mark in 2013—almost double the $10.3 billion raised in 2012...

RCS Capital Corp.’s Nicholas Schorsch paid one times revenue for Cetera Financial, when IBDs typically sell for 30-40 percent. Did he overpay?

Real estate ranked as one of the worst-performing categories of 2013. In a year when the S&P 500 returned 32 percent, real estate funds gained 1.6 percent, according to Morningstar. Rising interest rates have contributed to the weak showing. Real...

A recent study sheds new light on non-traded REITs.