Investment Strategies

Banks provided 71 percent of all construction financing in 2017, according to data from Real Capital Analytics.

Point Digital Finance Inc. lends capital to people and receives partial ownership in their homes in return.

NREI mapped out HNA Group’s U.S. holdings here.

Anbang Insurance Group and HNA Group are two major players that are reportedly looking at selling assets in order to raise capital to pay off debts.

Agency lenders are making more permanent loans than ever on apartment properties.

As yields get lower and lower, traditional buyers of core assets are more and more looking elsewhere.

Occupancies are unlikely to rise much higher than their current high level. And property prices are already so high they are unlikely to increase much more relative to incomes.

“Value appreciation has practically stopped in aggregate,” said Joi Mar, senior analyst at Green Street, in a webinar on Wednesday.

A Chicago-based private equity real estate firm is offering as much as $2 billion to purchase office buildings, health-care facilities and transit-related properties from the government.

For store sales that have occurred since the auctions began, the prices have ranged anywhere from $10 to $500 per sq. ft., an industry source says.