Tag: Real estate investment trust
Seller Financing After Dodd-Frank
The provisions of Dodd-Frank have been in place just under a year and a half, having come into effect on January 10, 2014, and...
The Real Business of Business
The guiding principle of business value creation is a refreshingly simple construct: companies that grow and earn a return on capital that exceeds their...
Private Real Estate Funding Gains Traction
As the stock market hovers near a record high, talk of a bubble is getting louder. As a result, investors may be looking to diversify...
Sale & Lease-Back – Why More Hoteliers are Drooling Over This...
Sale-leasebacks have long been used as funding and leverage tools by hotel owners and owners of commercial real estate in general. Although sale-leasebacks were...
Wall Street Landlords Buy Bad Loans for Cheaper Homes
Wall Street-backed landlords are showing a greater appetite for bad mortgages as a source for cheap property as the supply of foreclosed homes declines...
No Bubble in Big Tech Yet
One of the nation's newest industries is bubble spotting. People in the financial news and in television are raising the specter of bond bubbles,...
Analyst Expects Growth Trends to Continue for Lodging Sector
Patrick Scholes, equity research analyst with Suntrust Robinson Humphrey, joined REIT.com for a video interview at REITWorld 2013: NAREIT’s Annual Convention for All Things...
Revenue Managers and The Commission Controversy
It’s a pretty common occurrence; when revenue managers see that their property’s occupancy has hit a specific, pre-determined percentage, they decide to shut off...
Revenue Management: The Science of Sorting
Many hotel revenue managers live and die by their page position on OTA default searches. From Expedia’s Most Popular picks, to Orbitz’ Best Bets,...
Mother Of All Bubbles Pops; Mess Ensues
The asset bubbles the Fed’s money-printing and bond-buying binge has created are spectacular, the risk-taking on Wall Street with other people’s money a sight...
