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James Heistand, president and CEO of Parkway Properties (NYSE: PKY), joined REIT.com for a CEO Spotlight video interview during REITWeek 2014: NAREIT’s Investor Forum, held in New York.
Heistand discussed some of the macro trends that are impacting his company’s portfolio and how they may evolve going forward.
Bruce Duncan, president and CEO of First Industrial Realty Trust (NYSE: FR), joined REIT.com for a CEO Spotlight video interview during REITWeek 2014: NAREIT’s Investor Forum, held in New York.
This year marks the 20th anniversary of First Industrial being listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Duncan discussed the significance of this milestone.
The winners of NAREIT’s 2014 Investor CARE Awards were announced on June 4 in New York at REITWeek 2014: NAREIT’s Investor Forum. This is the 14th year that NAREIT has handed out the annual awards, which honor excellence in communications and reporting to shareholders.
In the large cap equity REIT category, the gold award went to Camden Property Trust (NYSE:CPT). Boston Properties (NYSE: BXP) received the silver award, while the bronze award went to Health Care REIT, Inc. (NYSE: HCN).
Alan Gold, chairman and CEO of BioMed Realty Trust (NYSE: BMR), joined REIT.com for a CEO Spotlight video interview during REITWeek 2014: NAREIT’s Investor Forum, held in New York.
BioMed is celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2014. Gold was asked about some of the biggest changes in life sciences realty during his career and strategies for keep BioMed competitive.
Michael Glimcher, chairman and CEO of Glimcher Realty Trust (NYSE: GRT), joined REIT.com for a CEO Spotlight video interview during REITWeek 2014: NAREIT’s Investor Forum, held in New York.
This year marks the 20th anniversary of Glimcher Realty trading on the New York Stock Exchange as a public REIT. The company’s CEO discussed the significance of this milestone.
Michael Hudgins, real estate strategist with J.P. Morgan Asset Management, joined REIT.com for a video interview during REITWeek 2014: NAREIT’s Investor Forum, held in New York.
Hudgins discussed the growth of the single-family REIT sector.
“Several of these companies have done really well,” he said. “It’s fair to say they’ve surprised to the upside.”
Debra Cafaro, chairman and CEO of health care REIT Ventas, Inc. (NYSE: VTR), joined REIT.com for a CEO Spotlight video interview during REITWeek 2014: NAREIT’s Investor Forum, held in New York.
On the opening day of REITWeek 2014, Jonathan Gray, global head of real estate at private-equity firm Blackstone, sat down with Public Storage (NYSE: PSA) chairman and CEO Ronald Havner, Jr. for a wide-ranging discussion of commercial real estate topics. Gray’s remarks covered prospects for different geographic markets and property segments, as well as the overall investment landscape.
Leading up to REITWeek 2014: NAREIT’s Investor Forum, NAREIT was on hand June 2 at the New York Stock Exchange to ring the closing bell. The NYSE recognized 18 REITs celebrating the 20th anniversaries of listing on the exchange. At the end of 1994, the year these companies listed on the NYSE, the equity market capitalization of the FTSE NAREIT All REITs Index was $ 44 billion. Today the index has an equity market capitalization approaching $ 800 billion.
REITs had another solid performance in May as the FTSE NAREIT All REITs Index posted a total return of 2.8 percent, ahead of the 2.4 percent return for the S&P 500 Index.
Year-to-date, the FTSE NAREIT All REITs Index has advanced 14.8 percent, while the S&P 500 Index is 5.0 percent higher.
“It’s another positive month, continuing the upward trend of the year,” noted Jeff Langbaum, REIT analyst for Bloomberg Industries.