There is something endlessly enthralling about Batman and his place in the realm of superheroes. Batman has no super-powers. No super-strength, no X-ray vision, no magical abilities. He had to work to build himself into a crime-fighting powerhouse, something relatively unique within a universe of super-powered beings. And despite its elements of fantasy, the story…
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Gamestop, Coronavirus, And A REIT Turnaround: January 2021 Newsletter
Has the market gone mad? Last week a mob of faceless internet warriors pushed an obscure video game retailer into the living room of mainstream America. Along the way they took down a variety of multi-billion-dollar hedge funds and seemed to turn the edifice of Wall Street firmly on its head. Trading was frenzied, emotions…
November REIT RECAP: The End Of The Beginning
If you are suffering from feelings of ROMO (regret of missing out), you are in good company. Most REIT investors were not heavily allocated to ANY of the above property types going into last month. And for good reasons! Office REITs continue to suffer from low utilization, Hotel REITs are still mostly empty, and Mall…
A RARE OPPORTUNITY: The 2021-2026 REIT Renaissance
No quote this month, no obscure movie references are seamlessly woven into meta investing commentary, no tricks, no treats, no gimmicks. This month we get straight to the point. This is the most compelling opportunity in REITs I have seen in my career. Period. End of sentence. I can’t allude to it in passing anymore;…
Re-thinking Real Estate: Fake News and Distress in the REIT Market
“To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.” - Nicolaus Copernicus - How many times did you have to read that quote? In between all the knows and the do not knows, there is some beautiful ancient wisdom.…