Oct 29, 2014

You may think your job's a nightmare, but however bad it may be, it's nothing compared to the experience of people who work in haunted office buildings. Upset by renovations or even too much or not enough employee turnover, ghosts have been...

ARCP Stock Tumbles Amid Unveiling of Accounting Errors

Oct 29, 2014

Schorsch's American Realty Capital announces serious accounting errors, replaces CFO.

E-Commerce Lifts Industrial REITs

Oct 28, 2014

E-commerce in the United States is growing faster than traditional retail sales, but less appreciated is that the trend is pushing up demand for physical space. Every time a shopper visits a retailer’s website and clicks the “buy” button, the mer...

Four Lessons I’ve Learned About Diversity and Inclusion

Oct 27, 2014

None of us would accept an investment portfolio without diversity. Too risky. A workforce without diversity? Even riskier. Yet we’ve taken that enormous risk in commercial real estate for too long by not making diversity and inclusion a top...

13 Haunted Retail Venues

Oct 20, 2014

If you thought ghosts only haunt old houses, think again. You can experience some pretty spooky shopping at many American retail venues. Shopping malls, big-box stores and specialty shops--the gamut of retail--play host to plenty of ghosts, many...

Whither Active Private Real Estate Portfolio Management?

Oct 14, 2014

Efficient market theory posits that alpha is just an anomaly and that efficient markets rule and there is no long-term prospect of managers achieving abnormal returns, obviating the possibility of active portfolio management. There are a...

Capital from Self-Directed IRAs Flows to Real Estate

Oct 08, 2014

Individuals with self-directed IRAs are adding to the abundant capital flowing into commercial real estate investments these days. Self-directed IRAs account for just 3 to 5 percent of the broader $6.5 trillion IRA market. Yet even that small fr...