CRE INTELLIGENCE

Rent regulation in the United States has undergone a dramatic structural evolution over the past century. What began as temporary wartime anti-inflation price freezes during World War II expanded into municipal rent stabilization regimes in coastal gateways, and has now transformed into 3rd-generation statewide annual caps tied to inflation. Today, rent regulation is no longer […]

Accrete Advisor’s seven-part series, the CRE Debt & Equity Playbook, establishes the framework that will govern real estate finance for the remainder of this decade. The overview highlights the key data and insights in this seven-part series.

To conclude our series, we focus on the public Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) vehicle. Public REITs offer institutional allocators corporate-level efficiency, scale, conservative balance sheet leverage, and immediate liquidity. By pooling thousands of high-quality assets and diversified tenant rosters, REITs create a resilient yield floor. Liquid access to diversified real assets is the ultimate […]

The debate between allocating to public REITs versus private equity real estate funds is often distorted by valuation methodologies. Private funds, tracked by the NCREIF ODCE Index, rely on appraisal-based valuations that suffer from a significant lag and an artificial “smoothing” effect. Public REITs, priced daily on stock exchanges, deliver immediate price discovery and higher […]