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...Jonathan Miller, of Miller-Samuels, a major independent New York-and-suburbs real estate appraisal firm, says: “The greatest impact is from (buyers of) just under $2m to $3.5m....
...Wal-Mart’s shares have gained almost 30 per cent over the same period....
...The founder’s grandsons – Jay, Donald and Robert – expanded further into real estate and diversified the company into a broad range of investments....
...to real estate....
...Financial stocks led the Nikkei’s fall as a real-estate investment trust and an insurer failed....
...Outside the main real estate investment trust sector, there are scores of property investment trusts, many of which own good properties but again trade at big discounts to net asset value....
...That means government contacts are essential to gain the best real estate deals. The Chinese groups have played on these ties to build their operations....
...Add in Trust-Mart’s annual sales to Wal-Mart’s Chinese business, and the two outfits combined still make less than 1 per cent of group revenue....
...Wal-Mart’s PR company Edelman would have done well to note such comments before agreeing to sponsor a blog called Wal-Marting across America, written by a couple who were camping in store car parks....
...When Wal-Mart reduced their packaging 5%, they made $3.4 million, so they’re just announcing a new healthcare plan and I was talking to Lee Scott today, and he told me about another company where the CEO...
...After building the malls, Taubman may decide to inject the new asset into a real-estate investment trust. Other options include a refinancing of the deal or a stock-market listing of the asset....
...The presence of the real estate investment trusts Kimco and Vornado - which also owns a 4.3 per cent stake in Sears, Roebuck - suggests the buyer could be keen to engineer a Kmart-style restructuring by...
...They make it by being Wal-Mart....
...The presence of the real estate investment trusts Kimco and Vornado - which also owns a 4.3 per cent stake in Sears, Roebuck - suggests those groups might want to break up the extensive property portfolio...
...Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and an investment group including Cerberus Capital Management, Goldman Sachs and Kimco Realty, a real estate investment trust, have both recently expressed an interest in bidding...
...A sponsor for Daikyo has yet to be selected, though Mori Trust, a real estate developer, is understood to be among the candidates....
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