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Why REITs Return More Than Directly Owned Properties
For allocators, real estate investment trusts, which boast higher liquidity, come out ahead across the board, a CEM Benchmarking study finds.
Prices are down and dire forecasts abound, but asset owners plan to modestly boost their CRE exposure.
The easy answer is a rebounding economy. But that’s not the sole factor, a Northern Trust Asset Management study finds.
Institutional investors mostly want to direct their non-market-correlated strategies themselves, but acceptance of these retail-oriented alternatives is inching up.
But it’s still 9% behind its pre-pandemic level. Will this all translate into a rebirth for the office market?
And where the Grave Dancer is branching out into other things instead, juggling businesses like logistics, health care, and energy.