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Drew Sims, chairman and CEO of SoTHERLY Hotels Inc. (NASDAQ: SOHO), joined REIT.com for a CEO Spotlight video interview during REITWeek 2014: NAREIT’s Investor Forum, held in New York.
Following a quiet period for acquisitions in the period from 2008 until late 2013, the company recently closed on two transactions. Sims was asked how those deals came about and whether they are a sign of more activity to come.
Eric Frankel, analyst at Green Street Advisors, joined REIT.com for a video interview during REITWeek 2014: NAREIT’s Investor Forum, held in New York.
Frankel discussed developments in the industrial REIT sector during the first half of the year. Industrial fundamentals have been good for the past few years, said Frankel, noting that the recovery in the industrial sector started relatively slowly when the economy first began to improve about four years ago.
“It’s been pretty smooth sailing,” he observed.
Former NAREIT Board of Governors President Arthur Viner, who founded REIT sponsor Investors Central Management Corp. , died June 19 at the age of 92.
Viner’s tenure at Investors Central Management Corp., which sponsored three REITs that were listed on the New York Stock Exchange, ran from 1958 to 1991. He held the positions of president and CEO of the company during that period.
Sophia Banar, managing director with Forum Securities Limited, joined REIT.com for a video interview during REITWeek 2014: NAREIT’s Investor Forum, held in New York.
Banar covers U.S. real estate companies for Forum Securities. Additionally, she advises the firm’s global portfolio management team. Banar joined Forum Securities in April after serving as a portfolio manager with The Tuckerman Group, an affiliate of State Street Global Advisors that focused on real estate investment.
Dennis Gershenson, president and CEO of Ramco-Gershenson Properties Trust (NYSE: RPT), joined REIT.com for a CEO Spotlight video interview during REITWeek 2014: NAREIT’s Investor Forum, held in New York. Ramco-Gershenson owns and manages multi-anchor shopping centers in strategic metropolitan markets throughout the eastern, Midwestern and central United States.
The executive team of single-family housing REIT American Residential Properties (NYSE: ARPI), president and COO Laurie Hawkes and chairman and CEO Stephen Schmitz, joined REIT.com for a video interview during REITWeek 2014: NAREIT’s Investor Forum, held in New York.
American Residential acquired 700 homes in the first quarter of the year. Schmitz talked about the pace of transactions in the quarter and the likelihood it would hold up going forward.
“We think that’s a well-measured pace,” Schmitz said.
Mark Peternell, vice president for sustainability with Regency Centers Corp. (NYSE: REG), discussed some of the shopping center REIT’s new green initiatives in the latest edition of the NAREIT Podcast.
Peternell described how Regency Centers has incorporated its “greengenuity” sustainability program into its corporate culture and made sustainability part of its “core values.”
The executive team of single-family housing REIT American Residential Properties (NYSE: ARPI), president and COO Laurie Hawkes and chairman and CEO Stephen Schmitz, joined REIT.com for a video interview during REITWeek 2014: NAREIT’s Investor Forum, held in New York.
American Residential acquired 700 homes in the first quarter of the year. Schmitz talked about the pace of transactions in the quarter and the likelihood it would hold up going forward.
“We think that’s a well-measured pace,” Schmitz said.
Susan Persin, senior managing director at Trepp LLC, joined REIT.com for a video interview during REITWeek 2014: NAREIT’s Investor Forum, held in New York.
With REITs outperforming the broader market so far this year, Persin was asked whether she expects fundamentals to support the market for the rest of 2014.
Eugene Landy, founder and chairman of Monmouth Real Estate Investment Corp. (NYSE: MNR) and UMH Properties, Inc. (NYSE: UMH), has been named by Yale Law School as the 2014 recipient of the Simeon Baldwin award, which recognizes distinguished achievement in law and business.