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In the latest edition of Quick Study, Brad Case, NAREIT’s senior vice president for research and industry information, said confidence in the state of the economy and capital markets boosted the broader market, and REITs in particular, during March.
“It was the kind of month where equity investors in general did well in essentially all categories of the stock market,” Case said. “But, certainly you were better off if you were a REIT investor,” he added.
In the latest episode of the NAREIT Podcast, Anita Kramer, senior vice president for the Urban Land Institute’s (ULI) Capital Markets Center, analyzed the latest results of ULI’s semi-annual real estate market forecast.
John Divers, COO and CFO at Community Development Trust (CDT), joined REIT.com for a video interview at REITWise 2016: NAREIT’s Law, Accounting and Finance Conference at the Marriott Marquis in Washington, D.C.
New York City-based CDT is a private, hybrid REIT that is active on the debt and equity sides of affordable housing projects.
Russell Golden, chair of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), joined REIT.com for a video interview at REITWise 2016: NAREIT’s Law, Accounting and Finance Conference at the Marriott Marquis in Washington, D.C.
Golden addressed the question of whether the proliferation of financial reporting that doesn’t adhere to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) reporting means that the GAAP income statement needs to be examined.
Neil Wolitzer, managing director at Goldman Sachs & Co., joined REIT.com for a video interview at REITWise 2016: NAREIT’s Law, Accounting and Finance Conference at the Marriott Marquis in Washington, D.C.
Wolitzer moderated a panel at REITWise on the state of the capital markets. He identified three main takeaways from the discussion:
David Polster, a partner at law firm Skadden Arps, joined REIT.com for a video interview at REITWise 2016: NAREIT’s Law, Accounting and Finance Conference at the Marriott Marquis in Washington, D.C.
Polster outlined the four main revisions made to the Foreign Investment in Real Property Tax Act (FIRPTA) rules by the Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes Act:
Ken Kies, managing director of the Federal Policy Group, LLC, joined REIT.com for a video interview at REITWise 2016: NAREIT’s Law, Accounting and Finance Conference at the Marriott Marquis in Washington, D.C.
Federal Policy Group advises clients on tax policy matters before Congress, the Treasury Department, the Internal Revenue Service and the OECD. Kies previously served as the chief of staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation.
Adam Emmerich, partner at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen and Katz, joined REIT.com for a video interview at REITWise 2016: NAREIT’s Law, Accounting and Finance Conference at the Marriott Marquis in Washington, D.C.
Emmerich participated on a panel at REITWise that looked at privatizations in the REIT industry and the lessons learned from the last privatization wave.
Emmerich noted that one of the lessons that the investing world has learned more broadly is that leverage can be “very, very serious.”
REITs posted a strong upswing in March, outpacing broader market gains as investor concerns about global macroeconomic issues eased during the month, according to market observers.
The total returns of the FTSE/NAREIT All REIT Index rose 10 percent in March, while the S&P 500 Index added 6.8 percent. For the year to April 1, the total returns of the FTSE/NAREIT All REIT Index are 5.9 percent, while the S&P 500 Index is 2.0 percent higher. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note is 0.5 percent lower for the year to April 1.
In the latest episode of the NAREIT Podcast, Anup Agarwal, head of mortgage-backed securities and asset-backed securities with Western Asset Management Company, discussed the impending wave of commercial mortgage debt maturities and how the financial markets are reacting.