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With Gil Menna Partner, Goodwin Procter What is your outlook for REIT IPOs this year? “I think the market is so volatile that it’s anyone’s guess, to be quite frank. We just don’t see a big backlog....
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Brian Jones
Brian Jones received a B.A. from Harvard University. He joined Neuberger Berman in 1999 as an associate analyst. In 2003, he became an analyst covering REIT securities and was named an associate...
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REITs and Retirement
The immediacy of the need to find solutions that will help ensure the retirement security of Americans is heightened by the growing wave of baby boom generation Americans who now are entering their...
View ArticleTop REIT Analysts Recognized
ISI Group took first place honors in Institutional Investor magazine’s annual awards honoring the top REIT analysts for 2012. It marked the third-consecutive year that the team led by Steve Sakwa,...
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Grin and Share It
The other day my youngest daughter, Peyton, lost her first tooth. To a 6-year-old, this is an important rite of passage. It signifies that you are no longer a baby, but also hints at the fact that our...
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Agree Realty Focuses on the Single (Tenant) Life
Agree Realty Corp. (NYSE: ADC) has been developing retail properties since 1971 and started developing single-tenant net leased assets in 1997. Now an acquisition program introduced in 2010 is helping...
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Names To Note
Annaly Capital Management Inc. (NYSE: NLY) appointed Wellington Denahan-Norris as chairman and CEO. Kevin Keyes was named president and James Fortescue was named COO. Foy CBL & Associates...
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Mark Zandi Explains it All
Mark Zandi is something of a media “go-to guy” for all subjects economic. Zandi, chief economist with Moody’s Analytics and co-founder of Economy.com (which is now a part of Moody’s Corp.), talked with...
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No Vacancy: Lack of Supply Pushes Lodging Sector Higher
When the financial world reeled in 2008 and 2009, one of the hardest hit commercial property sectors was the hotel industry. Not only did businesses immediately begin slashing their budgets for...
View ArticleBouncing Back
What a difference a year makes—or, in this case, five years. Back in 2008, chaos started to reign around the world, and it felt like the onset of the most non-spectacular apocalypse imaginable. This...
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Self Storage Goes High-Tech
The self-storage sector has the staying power to remain strong through both the good and bad economic times, according to Spencer Kirk, Extra Space Storage Inc.’s (NYSE: EXR) chairman and CEO....
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Summit Hotel Properties Specializes in Select-Service Model
The credit crisis curtailed activity for most hospitality sector players, but the senior managers now running Summit Hotel Properties Inc. (NYSE: INN) saw the event as an excellent opportunity to grow...
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Christmas Wishes in Spring
I’ve been making wish lists at Christmas since I was a small boy – at times with modest success. However, since I began buying REIT stocks in the early 1970s, there have always been two items that...
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The REIT Formula for Success
Listed REITs continued to raise capital from the public equity and debt markets at a brisk pace in the first two months of 2013, continuing a trend that began with the start of the REIT industry’s...
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Mind the Gap
I was predominantly raised by my working mother. I have two protective older sisters. I have two beautiful young daughters. I have seen first-hand, every day of my life, proof of the fact that there...
View ArticleThe Boardroom According to Costanza
There’s an episode of the classic 1990s sitcom “Seinfeld” in which the irascible George Costanza finds himself wanting out of his front-office job with the New York Yankees for a new position with the...
View ArticleCitigroup Top REIT Underwriter
Citigroup Inc. was the top equity underwriter for REITs in 2012, according to data from Dealogic, a company that tracks publicly traded REIT deals. Citigroup was responsible in 2012 for underwriting 45...
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Names To Note
Agree Agree Realty Corp. (NYSE: ADC) named Joey Agree as CEO. He replaces Richard Agree, who will continue to serve as executive chairman of the board. Associated Real Estates Corp. (NYSE: AEC)...
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With Dan Fasulo Managing Director, Real Capital Analytics Do mortgage REITs have any competitive advantages in the current capital markets environment? “The real story is that it is looking like 2006...
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Gil Menna
Gil Menna serves as co-chair of Goodwin Procter’s Real Estate, REITs & Real Estate Capital Markets Group. He’s also a member of the board of directors of New York University’s Real Estate...
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