Developments Blog

NAREIT says proposal unnecessary.

Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA), a senior member of the House Ways and Means Committee, visited Alexandria Real Estate Equities' property at 1616 Eastlake Avenue in Seattle. John Cox, senior vice president, regional market director, Seattle (left), gave the Congressman an overview of the investments Alexandria is making in Seattle.

NAREIT’s Compensation Survey is the most comprehensive industry survey in real estate.

NAREIT’s Investor Outreach team meets with some of the largest Canadian pension funds, asset managers and investment consultants.

Catherine Barré has joined NAREIT in a newly created position.

NAREIT and a number of real estate organizations have written to the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board to explain their reservations with SASB's work thus far in developing proposed sustainability standards for real estate.

Academic research finds like-kind exchanges increase investment, reduce holding periods and lower leverage levels in real estate industry.

Senators back FIRPTA reforms in Real Estate Investment and Jobs Act of 2015.

NAREIT is part of a new coalition promoting corporate governance policies focused on long-term shareholder value. 

During the second quarter of 2015, NAREIT conducted 112 meetings with many of the largest and most influential investment organizations within the institutional investment marketplace in the United States.

NAREIT and two other partners are sponsoring the first annual Real Confidence University Portfolio Challenge™, in which teams from 15 universities vie to create the best-performing portfolio.

Rep. Kathleen Rice (D-N.Y.) visited Simon Property Group’s Roosevelt Field mall in Garden City, N.Y. Rice, who is a member of the House Committee on Homeland Security, received a briefing on the status of the mall, which is undergoing a major redevelopment.