NAREIT Launches Total REIT Industry Tracker (T-Tracker) Series

NAREIT is releasing a new report, the Total REIT Industry Tracker Series, or as T-Tracker. Calvin Schnure, NAREIT senior vice president for research and economic analysis, provided an overview of the new report.

Schnure explained that T-Tracker is a quarterly report containing a series of measures of operating performance of all U.S. listed REITs. The Tracker Series has three components: the Funds From Operations (FFO) tracker; the Net Operating Income (NOI) tracker; and the Dividend Tracker.

NAREIT T-Tracker

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Professor Says Retirees, Millennials and Immigrants Changing Real Estate Industry

Kerry Vandel, finance professor at the University of California-Irvine, joined REIT.com for a video interview during REITWise 2015: NAREIT’s Law, Accounting and Finance Conference held in Phoenix.

Vandel cited three demographic groups that will heavily influence the real estate industry in the near future: baby boomers, millennials and immigrants.

The United States has “a much larger immigrant pool than we’ve had in the past,” Vandel said.

Vandel noted that those three demographic groups can be broken down further by wealth.

Kerry Vandel

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Debra Cafaro, Keith Pauley Receive REIT Industry Awards

Ventas CEO Debra Cafaro and NAREIT Chair David Neithercut

NAREIT presented its Industry Leadership and Industry Achievement Awards in Atlanta on Nov. 5 during REITWorld 2014: NAREIT’s Annual Convention for All Things REIT to Debra Cafaro and Keith Pauley, respectively.

The Edward H. Linde Leadership Award, named in recognition of Ed Linde, the late CEO of Boston Properties (NYSE: BXP), was awarded to Debra Carafo, chairman and CEO of health care REIT Ventas, Inc. (NYSE: VTR). The award is presented annually to a REIT executive who has made significant and lasting contributions to the growth and betterment of the industry.

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GRESB 2014 Survey Shows Improvement in Sustainability in Real Estate Industry

The Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB) 2014 Survey results released Sept. 4 point to strong improvement in the sustainability performance of the global real estate industry as a whole, according to GRESB.

The survey looked at data from listed property companies and private equity real estate funds around the world. In total, the respondents’ portfolios cover 56,000 buildings with an aggregate value of $ 2.1 trillion.

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Industry Veteran Says REITs Remain Low-Volatility Investments

Glenn Mueller, University of Denver professor and real estate investment strategist at Dividend Capital Group, joined REIT.com for a video interview during REITWeek 2014: NAREIT’s Investor Forum, held in New York.

Mueller was asked whether he still considers REITs to be low-volatility investments.

“They are much less volatile than the overall marketplace,” Mueller said.

He explained that REITs have historically been low-volatility investments. That changed temporarily during the financial crisis as a result of exchange-traded funds (ETFs), according to Mueller.

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Real Estate Social Media Q & A with some of the real estate industry smartest

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