Dec. 2 – The dangers of a rapid slowing of China’s property boom can be found in the Inner Mongolian city of Ordos, where new apartment blocks stand empty as real estate prices slump. Andrew Potter reports.
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http://www.reit.com Acadia Realty Trust (NYSE: AKR) President and Chief Executive Officer Ken Bernstein said his company’s retail tenants are seeing their sales hold up fairly well amidst some tough economic times. Speaking with REIT.com during The Real Estate Roundtable’s fall meeting, Bernstein said there has been a measure of stability among its tenants, notwithstanding volatility in the capital markets.
“What we will have to see is how does this play out over the next several months. And if the economy continues to remain volatile, at what point does that start to truly impact fundamentals,” Bernstein said.
For the most part, Bernstein said the anchor tenants in the company’s shopping centers have been healthier than heading into the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009,” he said. “They have stronger balance sheets and their business has been somewhat steadier.”
Acadia is active as both a buyer and seller in the current market. “This is a good time to shed assets and be a seller of assets that are not consistent with your long-term strategy,” Bernstein said. “But because rates are so low, it is a good time to be a buyer of assets that you believe in long term.”
Looking at 2012, Bernstein said he is very optimistic regarding how the company is positioned for what might lie ahead. He said the company has been selling non-core assets and purchasing others so that 40 percent of the portfolio is urban or street retail, a third is supermarket-anchored centers and the balance is discounter-anchored.
“I like that balance, and I like where that positions us going forward,” he said. “We also have a very healthy balance sheet with plenty of dry capital to be acquirers. And we think some of the volatility in the system right now is going to create some interesting buying opportunities.”
Bernstein said what concerns him as he looks toward 2012 and beyond is that within the publicly traded real estate space there is a risk of “the baby getting thrown out with the bath water.”
“In other words, real estate should be in this kind of low interest rate environment a very attractive investment and, so far, real estate has been holding up OK,” he said. “There is a risk that REITs along with all other financial instruments will be sold off just out of fear.”
By Matt Bechard
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May 2 (Bloomberg) — Olivier Piani, chief executive officer of the property unit at Allianz SE, talks about Allianz’s investments in U.S. real estate.
He speaks with Carol Massar at the Global Real Estate Markets Conference in New York on Bloomberg Television’s “Street Smart.” (Source: Bloomberg)
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http://www.reit.com In the latest edition of Word on the beach: Monthly Market Insights from Green Street Advisors, Adam Markman, managing director and head of Green Street Consulting, discussed merger activity in the REIT market and the potential for future initial public offerings.
Markman said he expects transaction activity to continue in the REIT space as companies continue to trade at significant premiums to their unlevered asset values as well as to net asset value.
“As long as this is the case, [REITs] benefit from a huge cost of capital advantage relative to other sources of real estate capital,” Markman said. “This low cost of capital is the fuel that is driving the M&A engine.”
Beyond the cost of capital advantage, Markman said some transactions are being driven by a company’s management team realizing it needs to bolster an aspect of its business. For example, he said if a company anticipates that with fundamentals improving future growth will need to involve development, it may make a deal to bring in a team with development expertise.
On the IPO front, Markman said he is not anticipating a flood of offerings. However, he said there will be some deals that get done, and they will come from three primary sources.
“The first is niche sectors of the real estate market where we don’t currently have a presence on the public company side,” Markman said. “Second, it will come from companies that were privatized in the past that are really too big to be acquired and they will need to go public. The last source will be ego-driven transactions where management has a desire to be a public company.”
Regardless of which area a potential deal comes from, Markman said it is essential that companies be prepared before trying to test the market.
“It is very important that they get the structuring aspects of their transaction that are in their control really, really right. This includes things like corporate governance, boards of directors, how they deal with conflicts of interest and how they structure their balance sheet,” he said. “The market has shown no mercy if a company has strayed from the line.”
One other area in which Markman said he is seeing demand in his consulting business is from non-traded REITs in need of assistance in adapting the best practices from the publicly traded REIT space to better align the interests of their sponsors and shareholders.
By Carisa Chappell
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Despite a real estate slump, the sale of deconsecrated churches is booming in Italy, and some are being turned into original homes. Anna Matranga reports.
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Dec. 21 (Bloomberg) — Dolly Lenz, a broker at Prudential Douglas Elliman Real Estate, discusses the outlook for the New York City luxury real estate market in 2011.
Lenz talks with Mark Crumpton on Bloomberg Television’s “Bottom Line.” (Source: Bloomberg)
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Richard Green, Lusk Chair in real estate at the School of Policy, Planning, and Development and former principal economist and director of financial strategy and policy analysis at Freddie Mac.
Raphael Bostic, Professor in the School of Policy, Planning, and Development and former staff economist of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.
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