McDonald's has looked at becoming a REIT before, but experts say don't count on it. The fast-food chain is a $34-billion real estate goliath—a goliath that the company hardly wants to monkey with.
HALL Structured Finance is an entrepreneurial, value-add, direct private lender that provides ground-up construction, adaptive reuse and major asset repositioning for commercial real estate projects throughout the United States.
Proposed EB-5 reforms are set to go into effect Nov. 21st. Yet the rules are drawing mixed reviews from industry players. Some believe they represent a “sea change” for the EB-5 industry, while others fear that it could further drag on a program that has struggled under a cloud of uncertainty and huge backlog of processing applications.
Ohana Real Estate Investors has reached a deal to sell the Montage Beverly Hills, a five-star hotel in the heart of the California city’s luxury shopping district, people with knowledge of the matter said.
Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc., led by Chief Executive Officer Stefano Pessina, has been reviewing a potential deal to take the company private in what could become the largest leveraged buyout in history, people familiar with the matter said.
New England’s old mills are finding new life in alternative real estate uses, reports The New York Times. San Francisco Chronicle looks at how the money donated by tech giants toward affordable housing might be put to work. These are among today’s must reads from around the commercial real estate industry.