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Blackstone Private Credit Fund Provides Income Consistency
September 27, 2022
Blackstone Private Credit Fund (“BCRED”), a non-traded business development company (“BDC”) sponsored by private equity giant Blackstone…
Blue Vault’s Look at Capital Square
August 30, 2022
Founded in 2012, Capital Square sponsors turn-key real estate investment offerings with low investment minimums to provide investors…
Blackstone REIT’s Use of Interest Rate Derivatives to Protect Against Interest Rate Increases
August 29, 2022
As of June 30, 2022, Blackstone REIT had $29.8 billion in variable rate loans secured by the Company’s real estate. The REIT…
Highlighting NexPoint Diversified Real Estate Trust
August 16, 2022
NexPoint Diversified Real Estate Trust (NXDT) is an externally advised, publicly traded, diversified real estate investment trust…
Blue Vault’s Prospect Capital Corporation Analysis
August 11, 2022
Prospect Capital Corp. is a publicly traded Business Development Company (“BDC”) that invests in middle-market companies located…
Net Lease Real Estate vs Inflation and Interest Rates
August 9, 2022
In recent months, interest rates have risen, inflation has spiked, and the economic outlook has clouded. Naturally real…
Blue Vault’s Analysis of Cottonwood Communities
August 2, 2022
As the S&P 500 was down 20.6% from the start of 2022 thru June 30, there is a nontraded REIT that reported a 22.05% total return to its Class I…
Tax Planning Structures
July 25, 2022
Tax Planning Structures July 25, 2022 | Richard Hillson | Hillson Consulting Qualified Opportunity Zones (“OZs”) have been at or close to the top of the most interesting and topical …
The Wall or the Cliff? ExchangeRight’s Macro Perspective
July 12, 2022
In light of the current economic volatility, a number of investors, representatives, and advisors with whom we work have asked…
A Conversation with Brian Mitts of NexPoint on Single-Family Rentals
July 6, 2022
Blue Vault recently spoke with Brian Mitts, CFO at NexPoint Real Estate Advisors. NexPoint is an alternative investment…
Timing the Market Is Impossible
June 21, 2022
In times of volatility, timing the market may seem tempting. But doing so is impossible and may be a costly mistake…
You Asked and We Answered: Five Questions about Opportunity Zones
June 3, 2022
If you are considering investing in an Opportunity Zone Fund such as ours, it’s worth understanding why and how. We put together these…
Urban Catalyst Breaks Ground on Senior Living Project in Downtown San Jose
May 27, 2022
It’s not every day you get to drive an excavator and knock stuff down. But on a recent Thursday afternoon, I took the wheel…
Urban Catalyst: More Than Fund Managers
May 19, 2022
When investors are considering putting their capital gains into a Qualified Opportunity Zone Fund, they have lots of choices…
Commercial Real Estate and Inflation
May 10, 2022
The numbers sound downright scary – an 8.5% rise in the consumer price index (CPI) for the 12 months ending March, and a 11.2% rise…
The “Thump” Heard On Wall Street
May 9, 2022
The clanging of the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange on the last trading day of April, the 29th, more appropriately should…
2021 tax time has passed – let’s get ready for next year’s tax season!
May 5, 2022
The Good Friday holiday extended this year’s tax filing deadline from April 15 to April 18, but now that day, too, has come and gone…
Phoenix American: 2022 Trend Report for Commercial Real Estate Uneven Recovery and Pandemic’s Lasting Effects
May 4, 2022
he U.S. economy and real estate markets are reopening following the biggest economic shock in U.S. history. Although Covid-19…
Leitbox Storage Partners: Finding the Sweet Spot
May 3, 2022
The self-storage sector of the commercial real estate market has been a top performer over the last several years. For example, the five…
Delivering Quality Cake Beneath the Frosting
April 28, 2022
Delivering Quality Cake Beneath the Frosting April 26, 2022 | Erik Hayden | Urban Catalyst Frosting atop a cake is sweet. But it’s the cake that really matters. At Urban …
New World Disorder and Your Financial Freedom
March 17, 2022
This writer─with a BS degree from the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, and as a Certified Financial…
Byron Wien: Time for a Pause
February 17, 2022
We had a pretty good year with the Ten Surprises of 2021. Although the goal is to stretch our own thinking and that of our clients…
Real estate: Ideas that CLIC
December 15, 2021
Longtime real estate investors are well-acquainted with the “Residential, Industrial, Office and Retail” framework that has defined this space…
The Fifth Generation of Self-Storage
December 8, 2021
It’s hardly a secret that self-storage companies have performed well over the last year. For example, Public Storage, the owner of…
CIM Group Market Insights: Social Infrastructure
September 7, 2021
While financing social infrastructure assets is generally considered a public sector responsibility, private capital often supplements…
