Marching On
Oct 1, 2007, Elaine Misonzhnik
In the first half of the year, it seemed retail REITs announced joint ventures on an almost daily basis. But will the recent troubles in the debt market...
REIT Joint Ventures Unfazed By Credit Market Tumult
Sep 26, 2007
In the first half of the year, it seemed retail REITs announced joint ventures on an almost daily basis. But will the recent troubles in the debt market make this once-popular investment play more difficult to pull off?...
Shuffling The Deck
Sep 1, 2007
Call it the Westfield Two-Step. In deals worth a combined $1.43 billion, Australian mall giant Westfield Group reached agreements with regional mall REITs...
REIT Report Card Pt. II
Sep 1, 2007, Elaine Misonzhnik
The results are in and shopping center REITs largely bucked pessimistic expectations and posted strong operating results for the second quarter despite...
Time For The Fall
Sep 1, 2007, By Elaine Misonzhnik
As the shopping center REIT sector along with all other REITs continues to get massacred in a stock sell-off, industry observers are keeping a stiff upper...
Not So Fast
Sep 1, 2007, By Lauren Shepherd
When the housing market began to seriously falter in 2006, some commentators raised the alarms that retail real estate would be next. After all, it is...
REIT Report Card Pt. I
Sep 1, 2007, Elaine Misonzhnik
In the face of pedestrian retail sales and crashing stock prices, four of the eight regional mall REITs delivered solid second quarter results. The most...
Buyback Plans Return
Sep 1, 2007
It has been years since any retail REITs exercised options to buy back stock. There really was no need. Retail REIT stock prices appreciated at incredible...
United They Stand
Sep 1, 2007
Shopping center REIT General Growth Properties, Inc. and diversified real estate operating company Forest City Enterprises, Inc. recently resolved conflicting...
Regional Mall REITs Post Mixed Results
Aug 8, 2007
In the face of pedestrian retail sales and crashing stock prices, four of the eight regional mall REITs delivered solid second quarter results. The most successful firms--those with portfolios in high-barrier-to-entry markets with strong fundamentals--saw healthy FFO and NOI growth. And analysts expect the sector to remain strong throughout the rest of the year, despite investors' sudden squeamishness. ...
