How to Invest in Timber REITs

When most investors think of real estate investment trusts, or REITs, they think of companies that own buildings. For example, the best-known REITs own malls, hotels, offices, hospitals, apartments, and self-storage buildings, among other property types.
How…
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Healthcare REITs: A Boom Is Coming

The story behind healthcare real estate investment trusts (REITs) has long been that they will benefit from the giant baby boomer generation as it crests into retirement. After all, healthcare needs materially increase for people age 65 and older and real est…
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Cannabis Watch: Marijuana-REIT stock falls after second-quarter earnings

Innovate Industrial Properties Inc. shares fell more than 2% in the extended session Wednesday, after the company reported earnings.
Innovative Industrial
IIPR, +2.44%
 reported second-quarter net income available to common stock holders of $3.1 million, …
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Simon Property Group Thriving Despite Retailers’ Troubles

Simon Property Group(NYSE:SPG) is generating record levels of earnings and cash flow, but you’d never guess that if all you were looking at was the company’s stock price. It’s down more than 20% from its 52-week high, and down even further from the all-time h…
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Brookfield acquires mortgage insurer Genworth Canada in $2.4-billion deal – The Globe and Mail

The private equity arm of Brookfield Asset Management has reached a $2.4-billion deal to acquire control of Genworth MI Canada Inc., the country’s second-largest mortgage insurer.
Brookfield Business Partners LP, a publicly-traded subsidiary of the global a…
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Getting Your Feet Wet in the Rental Property Business

August
13, 2019
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The following excerpt is from Mark J. Kohler’s book The Tax and Legal Playbook. Buy it now from Amazon | Barnes & Noble | IndieBound | Entrepreneur Books
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Dow, stocks drop in early trading as recession worries intensify, bond market raises red flag

After 19 years covering the stock market for USA TODAY, Adam Shell gives his best advice on how to successfully invest in the market.
USA TODAY
Stocks tumbled in early trading Wednesday after economic indicators from Germany and China renewed recession fea…
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Jeffrey Epstein reportedly lived the life of a billionaire thanks to hand-me-downs from Victoria’s Secret head Les Wexner (LB)

L Brands CEO Les Wexner was one of Jeffrey Epstein’s only known clients and his early ticket to the billionaire lifestyle.
Epstein was relatively unknown until he met Wexner. He started out as a math teacher, spent a brief stint at New York-based investmen…
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10 Monday AM Reads

My back-to-work morning train reads:
New China Tariffs Increase Costs to U.S. Households (Liberty Street Economics)6 Reasons We Make Bad Decisions, and What to Do About Them (Harvard Business Review)Family offices are diving into new markets: Secretive mana…
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Can “Densification” Help Save Mall REITs?

The internet has contributed to the closing of department stores operated by Sears, Kmart, and Bon-Ton. It has ripped apart niche retailers like Charlotte Russe and Payless ShoeSource. And the damage from the so-called retail apocalypse isn’t over, with compa…
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