WMRE is your digital destination for comprehensive coverage of news and analysis about commercial real estate finance, investment, development and leasing.
Stay up to date on CRE coverage through our free daily e-newsletter. Join today.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Worthwhile
Hightower CEO Elliot Weissbluth is profiled in this month’s Worth magazine, which also named him No. 91 on the publication’s list of the 100 most powerful people in finance, along with New York attorney general Preet Bharara (No. 1)...
Nicholas Schorsch's RCS Capital (RCAP) announced it will buy Cole Capital from sister company American Realty Capital Properties for $700 million, so Cole can use the company’s wholesale broker/dealer and expand RCAP’s distribution...
