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Putting money into real estate and stocks are two popular ways to grow your wealth. Home values have risen significantly, especially with demand being hot in the past few years. A red-hot housing market has inflated values across the globe. And while things have cooled of late, prices are still much higher than they were just a few years ago. Investing in stocks, however, is also a traditionally safe investment option. The S&P 500, for instance, has averaged an annual long-run return of 10%. Through the power of compounding, those...

WINNIPEG, MB, June 26, 2025 /CNW/ – Artis Real Estate Investment Trust (“Artis” or the “REIT”) (TSX: AX.UN) announced today that it has published its annual Environmental, Social and Governance (“ESG”) Report, providing an update on the REIT’s ESG practices, policies and objectives and highlighting the progress made in 2024. “This year, we remained steadfast in our commitment to environmental stewardship and transparency through reporting and disclosure,” said Samir Manji, President and Chief Executive Officer of Artis. “In 2024, we submitted to GRESB, pursued new and creative ways of collecting...

American Strategic Investment Company is on the verge of losing another Manhattan office property, this time via foreclosure.Foreclosure proceedings have been launched at 1140 Sixth Avenue in Midtown West, Crain’s reported. ASIC appears resigned to losing the property, according to a Fitch Ratings report, as it “has indicated a lack of funds to maintain the property” and “expressed willingness to cooperate with the lender in returning the property.”The 250,000-square-foot property is at the corner of West 44th Street. Its anchor tenant is City National Bank, but filling the space has...

Email Sign Up For Our Free Weekly Newsletter Move to capitalize on the digital financialization of the global real estate economy Florida-based World Property Ventures (WPV) announced this week that it is undergoing a strategic reorganization into a next-generation digital investment bank, positioning itself to lead the digital transformation of the $654 trillion-dollar global property sector. Formerly structured as a PropTech incubator, World Property Ventures is evolving into a fully integrated and government-regulated investment bank focused exclusively on the digitization of the global real estate industry. The move reflects growing...

1By Deb Smith, co-founder and CEO, The CenterCap GroupWhat’s going on with infrastructure? It’s not just utility pipelines and toll roads anymore. Infrastructure is showing up in sectors that used to be the heart of commercial real estate — data centers, logistics parks, healthcare facilities, cold storage, even energy-embedded office campuses. Infrastructure capital is moving in, and it’s reshaping how we think about real estate.This isn’t a story about KKR merging its infrastructure and real estate divisions, or AustralianSuper and Aware Super being early movers in combining each of theirs....

Brian Eisendrath I’ve been immersed in real estate investing for nearly two decades, navigating seismic shifts ranging from the 2007-2008 Global Financial Crisis to the recent 2022-2025 market correction. As chair of the investment committee for the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Real Estate Private Equity Track, I’ve had the privilege of guiding students as they evaluate real-world investment opportunities. Each semester, I kick off the program with a lecture on the fundamentals of real estate investing, posing the question: What’s the most important factor in real estate?  The answer I often hear...

Austinites may soon be charged a new utility fee to support parks maintenance, as local leaders look for more funding to keep pace with the needs of the city's thousands of acres of public open spaces.The setupUnderinvestment in Austin's hundreds of community parks has been a topic of concern among residents and elected officials for years, as the Parks and Recreation Department has contended with surging parks service needs for the city's growing population.The parks department currently operates on a $180 million budget that that goes toward maintaining and improving...

Thomas H. Ruggie, ChFC®, CFP®, Founder & CEO, Destiny Family Office. getty When people think about tax strategies, they tend to think of things like itemized deductions, charitable donations or maybe a well-timed retirement contribution. But for high-income earners or those experiencing sudden windfalls, like the sale of a business or stock options getting exercised, those basic strategies often don’t move the needle much. That’s when I advise clients to consider more sophisticated tools: oil and gas programs, solar investments and Qualified Opportunity Zones (QOZs). These legitimate, government-supported strategies are...

Today, GameStop Corp. (NYSE: GME) filed a Form 8-K with the SEC, following the full exercise of a $450 million Greenshoe option on its recent private offering of convertible senior notes, which could see the company potentially use the proceeds to purchase more Bitcoin. The move brings the total value of GameStop’s zero percent convertible senior notes due 2032 to $2.7 billion. JUST IN: GameStop $GME raised $450 million to make "investments in a manner consistent with GameStop’s Investment Policy" Buying Bitcoin is official GameStop Investment Policy 👀 pic.twitter.com/3DQgnrHCVL— Bitcoin...

Gov. Greg Gianforte last week finalized Montana’s two-year budget, which contains several new investments for Indian Country, including a historic increase in funding for tribal colleges and money devoted to repatriation efforts. Though Gianforte made several vetoes in the last few weeks that trimmed hundreds of millions in spending approved by lawmakers, the money that will help fund priorities set by the Legislature’s American Indian Caucus made it through the session that adjourned in April and survived the governor’s scrutiny. Tribal CollegesMontana is the only state in the nation where...