Shrinking Development Yields Place Retail REITs at Crossroads
Oct 17, 2007
Suddenly, development doesn't seem like quite the safe bet that it did at the beginning of the year for retail REITs. ...
DDR Dips Its Toe Into Canada
Oct 10, 2007
Faced with lower yields in the U.S., Beachwood, Ohio-based Developers Diversified Realty Corp. has entered a joint venture to develop a project in Toronto, fueling speculation that the REIT may be planning a larger push into Canada. ...
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?...
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...
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...
