One has to do with personal or family investment - that is higher education is thought to be a personal or family investment and not all that dissimilar from an investment in the stock market or an investment in real estate.
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The introduction of the new luxury tax would most likely reduce the attractiveness of real estate as an investment for rich Russians.
Glass advocates splitting it into a real estate investment trust and an operating company--something several hospital chains have done.
The remainder of savings can be distributed among stocks or equity mutual funds, real estate (most often via real estate investment trusts) and perhaps a smattering of commodities as an inflation hedge.
For income-focused investors, Real Estate Investment Trusts have been an oasis in the desert lately.
The implied return on investment in real estate is tied to an expectation of ever-rising prices, not to income from property.
The National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries (NCREIF) Property Index (NPI) is the accepted index created to provide an instrument to gauge the investment performance of the commercial real estate market.
John Guinee, an analyst at Stifel Nicolaus, said Mr. Thomas has a reputation for being an aggressive deal maker and successful real-estate investment banker, so the move could mean a "more aggressive management" style in the future that includes more acquisitions and asset sales.
Savage, who lives in Naugatuck, Connecticut, makes regular contributions to an investment portfolio that includes stocks and bonds as well as real estate.
During the early years of the financial downturn, the value of high-risk, high-return real-estate funds fell 54% from their peak at the end of 2007 to the bottom in 2009, according to an index tracked by the National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries.
Under current law, gains of foreign investors from the disposition of U.S. real property interests are generally subject to U.S. tax under FIRPTA, and foreign investors including large foreign pension funds regularly cite FIRPTA as an impediment to their investment in U.S. infrastructure and real estate assets.
The funds are run by ARA Asset Management, an Asian firm that specializes in management of publicly traded real estate investment trusts as well as private real estate funds.
Her financial adviser then will shift some of her savings out of an annuity and into high-yielding bonds and real-estate investment trusts, aiming to double the return on that money to 10% a year.
For a tax or real estate attorney, you'll find that putting an investment property into an LLC is routine.
Real estate has an important role to play in a diversified investment portfolio, but many small business owners are not adequately diversified.
CommonWealth's share price has underperformed the market, a fact analysts attribute to an acquisition spree and to its unusual management structure for real-estate investment trusts.
Investors from the Middle East have long regarded commercial real estate as a favorite form of investment, with an emphasis on certain commercial property sectors and geographic regions.
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The addendum to my report sent to the SEC indicated that my client, Mr. Christopher Tobe, a former trustee of the Kentucky Retirement System, had recently received substantial information from an international labor union, Unite Here, indicating that a real estate investment consultant retained by KRS to provide objective advice to the pension received compensation from real estate investment managers it recommended, including placement agent fees.
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The strong showing of commercial-mortgage REITs during the quarter reflected their high dividend yield of an average of 7%, according to the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts.
The case involved an investment that was pitched to naive investors to get them into Golden Gate REIT (Real Estate Investment Trust) for some easy money during the 2003-2004 housing boom.
If you just look at private (non-traded) real estate investment trusts, the agency would find a prime example of an oversold product.
An attempt to salvage the investment failed when shareholders won a lawsuit preventing Ackman from merging a real estate company with the bleeding golf course company.
John Van Vlack, the president of HLSS, said in an interview that the dividend payout was intended to be similar to those of real-estate investment trusts or business development companies, to attract similar kinds of income-seeking investors, which help keep capital costs low if the company goes back to the market for additional fundraisings.
Real estate investment trusts are on the move again, and Ross Smotrich, an analyst at Barclays Capital, thinks now is a perfect time to buy blue-chip REITs at bargain prices. (For another take on REITs, see page 108.) He likes Boston Properties ( BXP, 50) , which owns classy office buildings like Boston's Prudential Tower, San Francisco's Embarcadero Center and, in Manhattan, 399 Park Avenue, Times Square Tower and Citigroup Center.
The bust is good news for his real estate investment trust, AvalonBay Communities, and for long-term investors looking for an opportune time to buy in.
As a result, I believe that there now exists an intriguing opportunity for inclusion of this alternative asset class (i.e. real estate), through investment vehicles such as REITs and exchange-traded funds, in diversified growth portfolios.
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