Category: Capital Market Reviews

A full year’s worth of return has been earned in just the First Quarter 2012 as the S&P 500 Index advanced 12.0%, while the Wilshire REIT Index advanced 10.8%. The traditional January effect helped the smaller third of the REIT… read more.

For the third consecutive year, the public real estate market has outperformed the S&P 500 Index, delivering a 9.2% total return. While the volatility and focus on sovereign risk dominated the news following the benign first six months of the… read more.

Early in the 3rd quarter, investors learned that global capital flows had been positively influencing the REIT market as one real estate securities investment manager announced that they had received significant Japanese inflows into their products. However, the convergence of… read more.

Despite softening economic data, the commercial real estate market continued to advance in Second Quarter, as demonstrated by higher share prices and increased property transaction and financing activity. The REIT market enjoyed a healthy start to the quarter with a… read more.

REIT-related news headlines in the First Quarter were dominated by two massive public company transactions:  in January, dominant public industrial operators AMB and ProLogis agreed to merge, creating a $14 billion global entity; then on Feb. 28, healthcare REIT Ventas… read more.