Developments Blog

During August, NAREIT’s Investor Outreach team met with 22 global investment organizations controlling close to $1 trillion in institutional investment assets.

Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) recently visited with executives from Piedmont Realty Trust and was updated on the company’s current development projects in Georgia and throughout the country. 

Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO) (third from right) and Representative Ed Perlmutter (D-CO) (left) met with a group of NAREIT members to discuss the state of the REIT industry and the business and political climate in Colorado. 

Sen. John Boozman (R-AR), center, visited the Park Plaza mall in Little Rock, AR and was briefed on the mall’s recent developments. The mall, owned and operated by CBL & Associates, is a major economic engine for the downtown community of Little Rock.

Greenhouse gas emissions down; sustainable energy use up.

Aug. 25, 2015 - Rep. Pete Olson (R-TX), left, a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, visited the Houston offices of Camden Property Trust (NYSE: CPT). He met with Keith Oden, president of Camden, and was briefed on Camden’s recent activities and upcoming developments in the Houston area and other sections of the country, including Washington, D.C.

NYSE recognizes mortgage REIT's 30th anniversary.

Rep. Tim Murphy visits an office of Crown Castle International Corp. in Pittsburgh.Murphy met with more than 70 Crown Castle employees and addressed issues now pending before Congress that could impact Crown Castle and the REIT industry.

Rep. George Holding of the House Ways and Means Committee meets with REIT executives from Kilroy Realty,Macerich and Public Storage in Los Angeles and received a briefing on the critical issues now facing the industry.

FASB has issued a final accounting standards update that provides a one-year deferral of the effective date of the new Revenue from Contracts with Customers standard.

In July, NAREIT’s Investor Outreach team met with 35 global investment organizations controlling more than $1.7 trillion in institutional investment assets.

NAREIT comments on usefulness of proposed standard.