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Joseph Coradino, CEO of Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust (NYSE: PEI), joined REIT.com for a CEO Spotlight video interview during REITWeek 2015: NAREIT’s Investor Forum, held in New York.
PREIT owns shopping centers in 12 states in the eastern half of the United States. Its assets are concentrated in the Mid-Atlantic region and Philadelphia.
Paul Pittman, executive chairman, president and CEO of Farmland Partners Inc. (NYSE: FPI), joined REIT.com for a CEO Spotlight video interview during REITWeek 2015: NAREIT’s Investor Forum, held in New York.
Farmland Properties, which invests in primary row crop farmland throughout North America, became a stock exchange-listed REIT in 2014. At the time of its initial public offering, its portfolio contained 7,300 acres. That has grown to more than 70,000 acres today.
Stuart Tanz, president and CEO of Retail Opportunity Investment Corp. (NASDAQ: ROIC), joined REIT.com for a CEO Spotlight video interview during REITWeek 2015: NAREIT’s Investor Forum, held in New York.
ROIC focuses on the ownership and management of grocery-anchored shopping centers located in densely populated, metropolitan markets across the West Coast.
Rip Gellein, chairman and CEO of Strategic Hotels & Resorts, Inc. (NYSE: BEE), joined REIT.com for a CEO Spotlight video interview during REITWeek 2015: NAREIT’s Investor Forum, held in New York.
In May, the company closed on the acquisition of the Four Seasons Austin hotel for $ 197 million. The hotel is located in the midst of the city’s central business district. Gellein commented on the qualities that attract Strategic Hotels to the Austin market.
Mark Snyderman, fund manager of the Fidelity Real Estate Income Fund, joined REIT.com for a video interview during REITWeek 2015: NAREIT’s Investor Forum, held in New York.
The Fidelity Real Estate Income Fund invests in the securities of REITs and other real estate companies across the capital stack: common stock, preferred stock, bonds and commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS).
Nelson Mills, president and CEO of Columbia Property Trust Inc. (NYSE: CXP), joined REIT.com for a CEO Spotlight video interview during REITWeek 2015: NAREIT’s Investor Forum, held in New York.
Founded in 2003, Columbia Property Trust is one of the nation’s largest office REITs. The company listed its shares on the New York Stock Exchange in October 2013.
Denny Oklak, chairman and CEO of Duke Realty Corp. (NYSE: DRE), joined REIT.com for a CEO Spotlight video interview during REITWeek 2015: NAREIT’s Investor Forum, held in New York.
With bulk distribution facilities now making up more than 70 percent of Duke’s portfolio, Oklak provided an overview of industrial market fundamentals.
“The industrial business is really very good at this time,” he said. Oklak noted that Duke’s in-service occupancy rates within its bulk industrial portfolios are at almost 97 percent.
Glenn Mueller, a University of Denver professor and real estate investment strategist at Dividend Capital Group, joined REIT.com for a video interview during REITWeek 2015: NAREIT’s Investor Forum, held in New York.
Mueller said that based on occupancy and rent data, the real estate cycle appears to have moved through the recovery phase and is now in a strong growth phase in a majority of markets throughout the country.
Mueller indicated that the top of the cycle may have been reached in the apartment sector, whereas other property types have not yet reached that point.
A new report concludes that committing to sustainability pays off for REITs.
REITs with higher Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB) scores outperform their peers in terms of returns, according to a study from the University of Cambridge. The study also showed that when adjusted for risk, there is a significant link between REITs’ portfolio sustainability indicators and their performances in the stock market.
