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REITs around the world will be able to use the .REIT top-level domain name in internet addresses. Only REITs will be able to use the .REIT designation, creating a new identification element in their communications that will enhance their identity as REITs among their audiences.

Apartment REIT comes in at 40th overall in FORTUNE magazine rankings based on survey of more than 135,000 female employees at more than 600 companies. The rankings account for factors such as opinions on the fairness of promotion decisions and female representation in the workforce and management positions.

Ventas CEO only representative of real estate industry to make Modern Healthcare Magazine's list of 100.

NYSE recognizes mortgage REIT's 30th anniversary.

At each phase of their lives, the Baby Boom generation has had a major impact on American society. The hula hoops and bell bottoms are long gone, and the next major issue will be how the Baby Boomers retire. 

American Tower Corp. (NYSE: AMT) Chairman and CEO Jim Taiclet has been named to Forbes Magazine’s 2015 Global 2000 CEO Hall of Fame.

In compiling its 2015 list, Forbes looked at those companies that made the biggest move up its list of the world’s largest companies during the past decade.

A. Alfred Taubman, the founder of Taubman Centers, Inc.  who is widely credited with inventing the concept of the indoor shopping mall, died of a heart attack in his home in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., on April 18. He was 91.

On April 29, the Real Estate Department of the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College will host “Global Real Estate Markets: Trends, Risks, and Opportunities,” a conference inviting international real estate investors and academic research professionals to assess recent and future trends and risks in global real estate investing. The keynote address at the event will be delivered by Sam Zell, chairman of Equity Group Investments.