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By AD Pruitt Of Dow Jones Newswires The pervading sense of doom that permeated the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts conference in November was missing during REIT Week this week in New York, with chief executives, …
US REITs aiming to raise $582 billion for investment SmartBrief
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One of the key reasons for this poor demand in commercial and retail segments is the non–availability of Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), which could not take off because of complex legal hurdles and the sudden crash in the stock market in 2008. …

The lack of liquidity is also driving up delinquencies on commercial property loans. “The next five years will be one of the most attractive real estate investment periods in the past 50 years,” Starwood Property said in today’s filing. …
Starwood seeks $500M IPO to buy bad real estate The Daily Deal (subscription)
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An investment partnership bought the Huntington Circle apartments, a 126-unit property at 409 W. Round Grove Road in Lewisville. John Barker of Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services negotiated the sale of the property, built in 1984. …