Some analysts have noted weak M & A activity in REITs throughout the past year. One common reason is the lack of willing sellers. Pretty natural result in this interest rate environment. Scott Craig expands on some of these reasons here: http://www.reit.com/Videos/Analyst-says-REIT-MA-Activity-Lags-Due-to-Lack-of-Sellers.aspx Recently Cole Real Estate and American Realty Capital Partners merged. Housewire has the details: http://www.housingwire.com/articles/27597-cole-real-estate-to-merge-into-american-real... read more

Las Vegas – Senior leadership at Coldwell Banker Premier Realty announces the sale of Inspirado Apartments to private investors, Mystic Sands LLC.  Inspirado, a 252 unit apartment home community completed in 2011, which sold for $28,700,000, represents one of the larger transactions that took place in the Las Vegas Valley in 2013.   “Inspirado was a great opportunity for an investor to acquire a low vacancy, newer project in a growing submarket, near several major employment centers”, said Brian Krueger... read more

Just finished reading a transcript of a Silver Bay discussion at the JPM Securities Financial Services and Real Estate Conference. Here is one interesting quote    "But again, the institutional ownership that you read about in the papers is still very small, perhaps a 100,000, maybe 150,000 homes have been purchased over the past three, four years, and that's just tiny in comparison to the overall markets. So, we see a great deal of growth opportunity and consolidation going forward."    Th... read more