Big Data is big-time ubiquitous in headlines across industries, but the real estate industry has been slow to take advantage. That’s all changing. Commercial real estate companies and REITs are embracing new technologies to harness the power of Big Data to elevate their investment and management strategies and optimize their operations.
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News and predictions surrounding interest rates have dominated industry headlines for quite some time. The Federal Reserve’s first interest rate hike since 2006, which arrived in mid-December after months of speculation, should act less as a cause for alarm than as a bellwether of even better things to come for the economy as a whole, as well as the CRE industry.
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Topics: interest rate, real estate, REIT, Uncategorized
In recent years, tax-free spinoffs under Sec. 355 involving REITs became popular among corporations with real estate holdings. The essence of REIT spinoffs is that valuable real estate leaves the corporation and moves tax-free into the favorable REIT tax regime. New tax legislation that took effect December 7, 2015, severely curbs this tax planning strategy.
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