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The Nareit Developments section on reit.com provides updates of Nareit's activities and key events impacting the REIT and commercial real estate industry. Nareit is the worldwide representative voice for REITs and publicly traded real estate companies with an interest in U.S. real estate and capital markets.
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NAREIT Joins Group in Commenting on Approach for Credit Risk

NAREIT joined The Real Estate Roundtable, the Mortgage Bankers Association and the CRE Finance Council (CREFC) last week in submitting comments to the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BIS) in response to its recent consultation document proposing revisions to the standardised approach for credit risk. The consultation document covers a new framework for assigning risk weights to bank credit exposures, including those related to commercial real estate.

04/07/2015
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Message from the President

More than 1,200 attendees head to Phoenix this week for REITWise 2015: NAREIT’s Law, Accounting and Finance Conference.  REITWise, which will be held this year from March 31 to April 2 at the JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort & Spa, is a “hands-on” conference. Attendees at this year’s three-day event should get a clear picture of current developments affecting legal, financial, tax and accounting operations within REITs and throughout the world of real estate investment. 

04/06/2015
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REITs Raising Investment in Sustainability, Growing Returns

REITs' investments in sustainability keep rising, as do their returns on those investments, according to research on NAREIT's Leader in the Light (LITL) program.

A study of data from LITL found that participating companies increased their total investment in energy efficient projects by roughly 30 percent over their three-year moving average from 2011 to 2013. The study, which was conducted by RealFoundations, also determined that savings in 2014 from sustainability projects nearly doubled the previous three-year moving average. A similar comparison found that return on investment for those projects was up approximately 40 percent -- a 54 percent increase when compared with the ROI of 26 percent for projects between 2011 and 2013.

03/25/2015
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Amended Bill to Examine Effect of REITs in Hawaii Approved by Hawaii Legislative Committees

Hawaii FlagNAREIT submitted testimony in April 2015 to the Hawaii House of Representatives' Committees on Consumer Protection and Commerce and Judiciary in conjunction with a joint hearing on a proposal related to the dividends paid deduction (DPD).

The bill that was the subject of the hearing (S.B. 118, S.D. 1) originally proposed to eliminate the DPD for all real estate investment trusts in the state. It was changed to provide for a study on the impact of REITs operating in Hawaii.

03/24/2015
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Marketplace Fairness Act Reintroduced in Senate

Last week, Sens. Mike Enzi (R-WY) and Dick Durbin (D-IL) introduced the Marketplace Fairness Act, S. 698, a bill designed to require online retailers to collect states' sales and use taxes from consumers.

The bill is nearly identical to a proposal that passed the Senate in 2013 by a vote of 69-27. Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND), Roy Blunt (R-MO), Jack Reed (D-RI), Bob Corker (R-TN), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Angus King (I-ME) joined Enzi and Durbin in sponsoring the bill.

03/23/2015
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