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Entertainment Properties Trust (NYSE:EPR) is a specialty REIT that boasts an investment portfolio worth roughly $2.9 billion comprised of megaplex theaters, urban ski resorts and charter schools...
The industrial real estate sector was severely impacted during the 2008-09 recession, and has subsequently lagged in the early stages of the U.S. economic recovery...
As the nation’s commercial real estate markets continue to recover from the recent recession, primary markets like Washington, D.C. and New York City have attracted the lion’s share of real estate capital due to their high barriers to entry, lack...
While most hotel REITs chase full-service and luxury hotels in major markets, Chatham Lodging Trust continues to focus on what it knows best: extended-stay and select-service hotels. And the REIT’s latest acquisition is one that Jeffrey Fisher...
The following rankings, originally published in May, are based on responses to NREI's Top Lender Survey. They reflect total dollars financed or arranged in commercial real estate in 2010. The first list includes firms financing direct loans...
Recent court decisions should serve as a warning to borrowers to carefully review the wording of recourse carve-out guarantees in both existing and proposed mortgages, lest they be held fully liable for real estate loans. While “non-recourse” lo...
The key to understanding mobile home park investing is to look at the raw power of affordable housing and how it relates to today’s consumer. The household income for 20% of all Americans is under $20,000. That’s 60 million people...
