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The environment and performance of Real Estate Investment Trusts
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Executive Summary. Researchers have been interested in investigating the role of Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) in institutional portfolios since their debut in the financial market over four decades ago. The cyclical popularity and performance of various types of REITs as well as the availability of daily returns data for REITs have provided researchers a fruitful and unique area of examination. This study explores the recent financial economics literature on the environment and perfo...
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REITs To the Rescue? Troubled Developers Form Real Estate Investment Trusts To Raise Cash From Public; Risk Seen for Share Buyers
The Washington Post
; Like the cavalry charging to the rescue in the final reel, help is on the way for the debt-laden, cash-strapped commercial real estate industry. The new hero? Improbably enough for the beleaguered sector, it's the investing public. With the hearty encouragement of Wall Street, record numbers of
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You can stil(l) make money in real estate: any one of the four REITs in Canada is considered an attractive buy for conservative investors.
Money Digest
; A year ago, I suggested that Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) were a good choice for conservative investors. I suggested Canadian Real Estate Investment Trust (CREIT) (TSE: REF.UN, 416-921-7771), then trading at $8.50. CREIT has since traded up to $10.80 and returned $0.82 in distributions for
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REITs Offer Convenient Entry Into Real Estate
Chicago Sun-Times
; A diversified investment portfolio should contain a little real estate, some experts advise. But though your house may be your biggest asset, you shouldn't view it as a key real estate investment. Generally, residential real estate prices have been slightly up, flat or even down since the late
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THE INVASION OF THE REITS! REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUSTS HAVE BEEN GOBBLING UP OFFICES, APARTMENTS, SHOPPING CENTERS AND HOTELS. WHO ARE THESE GUYS AND WHAT WILL THEY DO NEXT?(Business)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
; Are you the kind of Monopoly player who carefully hoards your stash, bypassing lesser properties in hopes of getting a shot at purchasing Boardwalk or Park Place? Real estate investment trusts are the other kind of Monopoly player, says industry analyst Richard Muhlebach. ``They're still on a
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The case for REITs-and for real estate
Global Finance
; REITs are more liquid, but real estate smooths out total return. Are REITs real estate or equities? Or, to put it another way, are REITs a complement to or a substitute for real estate investment? "That's a good question, but we don't have the answer right now," says Scott Franklin, pension finance
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KNOW YOUR REITS: REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUSTS OFFER DEALERS USEFUL OPTIONS, BUT THEY MAY NOT BE FOR EVERYONE.(automobile dealers)
Automotive News
; Real estate investment trusts, or REITs, were a hot topic at the National Automobile Dealers Association convention in New Orleans a year ago. But this year, as dealers prepare to meet in San Francisco, the dealer REIT business has chilled. One of two REITs that exhibited at the New Orleans show
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Real Estate: Analysis shows mix of direct investments, REITs helps returns.(News)
Pensions & Investments
; Byline: Arleen Jacobius Combining direct real estate and REIT stocks equally in an institutional portfolio can increase the overall performance of a portfolio by an average of 27 basis points annually compared with portfolios that hold only one or the other, according to a soon-to-be-released
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Equity REITs: proceed with caution ... but proceed! (real estate investment trusts) (Personal Financial Planning)
Financial Executive
; Equity real estate investment trusts (REITs) have boomed over the last 15 months. In 1992 underwriters raised some $2 billion for new and existing equity REITs. An additional $650 million of new capital was raised in the first six weeks of 1993, and analysts conservatively project that $3 billion
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REITs to the rescue? (real estate investment trust)
Florida Trend
; Real estate investment trusts may solve one problem in the commercial real estate market. But that still leaves a lot left. Let's understand just one thing, says Gary Cutson, Price Waterhouse's senior tax manager in Atlanta, REITs are not the salvation of the real estate industry. Nevertheless, it
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Real estate and economies of scale: the case of REITs.(real estate investment trusts )
Real Estate Economics
; ... ratios, systematic risk and cost of capital measures. In addition to the size and time span of our data set, we also incorporate news-reported information on merger activity into the analysis of economies of scale. This is important as the costs of integrating ...
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