CRE Business

MSCI Real Assets’ new report looks at the capital availability trends in the commercial real estate sector.

Traditional sales can be time-consuming, with negotiations and contingencies that might cause the closing process to take months.

The VanEck Office and Commercial REIT ETF is part of a trend of increased specialization among REIT ETFs.

The investment management firm has been beefing up its staff to capitalize on an asset class with strong investor interest.

One way to mitigate the impact of a failed exchange is “tax straddling,” which involves timing the exchange so the sale falls in one tax year and the receipt of proceeds in the following year.

While historically Nuveen Real Estate has worked with institutional investors, it sees the retail investor channel as increasingly important going forward.

Publicly-traded REITs are largely relying on unsecured debt at fixed rates, avoiding some of the rancor caused by rising interest rates.

FS Credit REIT invests in short-term, floating-rate loans. But it notes its strategy is different from many debt funds in the market today.

Opportunistic investors have snapped up loan portfolios in some of the first moves attempting to capitalize on distressed real estate.