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The real estate sector is roughly at mid-cycle, with low levels of new supply, improving tenant demand, and ample capital supply all expected to support growth in the REIT industry over the next few years, according to industry executives and analysts.
“We’re past the deep distress period and are somewhere in the middle of a recovery in the U.S.,” said Jonathan Gray, global head of real estate at Blackstone, during the NYU Schack Annual REIT Symposium April 8.
Absent the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA), another terrorist attack along the lines of Sept. 11 could cost U.S. taxpayers as much as $ 7 billion to cover uninsured losses, according to a study released April 10 by the RAND Corporation.
Meanwhile, a bipartisan group of senators announced a deal on legislation to extend TRIA beyond its current expiration date at the end of 2014. Sens. Charles Schumer (D-NY), Dean Heller (R-NV), Mark Kirk (R-IL) and Jack Reed (D-RI) said April 10 that they had reach an agreement on a bill that would extend the program until 2021.
Bob Lehman, partner and global REIT head at accounting and advising firm EY, joined REIT.com for a video interview during REITWise 2014: NAREIT’s Law, Accounting and Finance Conference held in Boca Raton, Fla.
Lehman reviewed recent developments at the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), the private sector body that oversees the auditors of U.S. public companies.
Commercial property transaction volume is expected to reach $ 430 million by 2016, a 21 percent increase from 2013 and the highest level seen since 2007, according to a survey from the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and tax and advising firm EY.
Yoel Kranz, partner with the law firm Goodwin Procter LLP, discussed the latest trend towards consolidation in the real estate market in an interview for the latest edition of the NAREIT Podcast.
Hans Nordby, chief economist with CoStar, joined REIT.com for a video interview during REITWise 2014: NAREIT’s Law, Accounting and Finance Conference held in Boca Raton, Fla.
Nordby was asked for his thoughts on sectors within the REIT industry that he expects to outperform. Of the “four major food groups” in the REIT market, Nordby singled out the industrial sector as the one that looks most promising in the near term.
