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Participants on a panel at REITWorld 2016: NAREIT’s Annual Convention for All Things REIT, agreed that volatility is likely to persist in the REIT industry as markets digest the impact of the recent general election.
Timothy Naughton, 2017 NAREIT Chair and chairman and CEO of AvalonBay Communities, Inc. (NYSE: AVB), moderated the Nov. 15 roundtable.
Joel Beam, managing director at Salient Partners, joined REIT.com for a video interview at REITWeek 2016: NAREIT’s Investor Forum at the Waldorf Astoria New York.
According to Beam, volatility has been the dominant theme for REITs in the first half of 2016.
“Volatility really has been the story from our point of view, and I think it’s really what gives investment managers that challenge of staying steady at the wheel,” he said.
Looking to the second half, Beam said he will be focused on “the landscape of returns.”
Sherry Rexroad, chief investment officer with BlackRock Global Real Estate Securities, joined REIT.com for a video interview at REITWeek 2016: NAREIT’s Investor Forum at the Waldorf Astoria New York.
Rexroad offered perspective on the level of volatility in commercial real estate markets. She stressed that volatility has largely been driven by macroeconomic and monetary policy, rather than real estate fundamentals.
Ron Bohlert, managing director of the Global Client Services Group at the New York Stock Exchange, 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.
Bohlert attributed the recent slowdown in REIT initial public offering (IPO) activity to volatility in the equity markets, triggered in part by the economic situation in China and continued pressure on oil prices.
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:
NAREIT and the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association (AREUEA) awarded the 2015 NAREIT/AREUEA Real Estate Research Conference Distinguished Research Prize to Pawan Jain.
The conference was held at the New York Hilton Midtown on June 8.
In the latest edition of Fundamentally Speaking, Calvin Schnure, NAREIT’s vice president for research and industry information, observed that commercial real estate fundamentals remain sound despite stock market volatility during October.
Schnure explained that movements in the stock market in October mostly reflected concerns about global growth and the impact of the global economy on the United States. Worries about the strength of the U.S. dollar and its impact on U.S. firms that repatriate their foreign earnings also played a factor, according to Schnure.
Nancy Anderson, vice president of financial reporting and chief financial officer with the Real Property Association of Canada (REALpac), joined REIT.com for a video interview during REITWise 2014: NAREIT’s Law, Accounting and Finance Conference held in Boca Raton, Fla.
Anderson discussed the current overall health of the commercial real estate market in Canada.
