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Stable Skilled Nursing Sub-Sector Lures Health Care REIT into $55.5M Purchase
Jul 02, 2009
While many real estate investors sit on the sidelines waiting for
property prices to fall dramatically or the credit market to defrost,
National Health Investors Inc. is actively enhancing its portfolio in
one of the most stable property sectors in the current economic
climate-- skilled nursing, a subtype of the seniors housing sector. The
healthcare REIT just shelled out $55.5 million in cash for four
skilled nursing facilities, all of which will be leased back to the
seller and tenant, Legend Healthcare L.L.C.
Economic Update - Wal-Mart Takes Historic Healthcare Position, But Why?
Jul 02, 2009
It's a peculiar time in history when a retailer can influence the debate about national healthcare policy. Yet Wal-Mart is doing just that by coming out earlier this week in favor of the government forcing employers to provide health insurance to workers. It was seen as something of a surprise. The Wall Street Journal characterized the National Retail Federation as "flabbergasted" by Wal-Mart's decision. (Were NRF officials sitting around in conference rooms, being flabbergasted together?)
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HUD Awards Over $1B in Recovery Act Funds to Jump Start Affordable Housing Construction
Jul 02, 2009
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is approving plans submitted by state housing finance agencies for $1 billion to jump start affordable housing programs in states throughout the country that are currently stalled due to the economic recession. Funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, HUD's new Tax Credit Assistance Program will allow 26 state housing finance agencies to resume funding of affordable rental housing projects across the nation while stimulating employment in the hard-hit construction trades.
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Buildings' Weak Link: Energy Conservation Through Windows
Jun 03, 2009
When it comes to saving energy, windows constitute the weak link for buildings. Despite heavily insulated walls and ceilings and the popularity of low-e glass, 25 to 35 percent of the energy used in buildings and homes is wasted due to inefficient glass. In fact, it should come as no surprise that glass is responsible for greater than 10 percent of the total carbon emissions in the United States annually and is a major contributor to global warming.
Letter from the Editor
A Sense of Responsibility
May 01, 2009
By its very nature, commercial real estate is an opportunistic business. So it is really not surprising that a growing number of U.S. investors are forming funds, positioning themselves so that as soon as they perceive a bottom to the market, they can buy. And the funds are sizable: At press time, for instance, Rockwood Capital L.L.C. had just closed an investment fund at $964 million.
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