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The IPO market has not been so kind in 2010, and it has been far from predictable in general.  There is a stealth IPO this morning that is flying under the radar of most investors and it is a...
General Growth Properties, Inc. (NYSE: GGP) may soon need to change its name to General Break-Up.  The mall REIT operator Spinco, Inc. (“Spinco”), has filed a registration statement with the SEC...
It seems we have more secondary offerings coming back into the fold now that the markets have stabilized and recovered.  Many real estate investment trusts (REITs) raised vast sums of capital in...
ProLogis (NYSE: PLD) is already very well known as a REIT in commercial space for warehouse-type of projects for storage, warehousing, distribution, and office parks.  Now, it is going to be known...
It seems that the realm of mergers and acquisitions is not dead when it comes to property deals.  Simon Property Group, Inc. (NYSE: SPG) has made a formal offer to acquire General Growth Properties,...
Today could be called IPO Friday.  We have four confirmed priced deals, and likely a fifth.  The IPO’s involve Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B) for its Symetra Financial (NYSE: SYA),...
There was an interesting filing for an initial public offering that was put in at the SEC after most investors, brokers, advisors, and traders had already headed home either for Christmas of for the...
We have two deals which have been called off in the land of mixed use properties as a secondary by Thomas Properties Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: TPGI) and one was the IPO which was supposed to price from...
Late Friday night, after a really poor market day, Hyatt Hotels issued an amended S-1 for its planned initial public offering.  Because of last week’s market volatility, we are getting mixed...
It was just in August that practically every single initial public offering was trading above its IPO price.  The market had rallied significantly, and still rallied after that to just this week...
China Real Estate Information Corporation (NASDAQ: CRIC) has priced its 18 million share initial public offering at $12.00 per share.  While this is not an easy structure, this IPO has ramifications...
Pathetic demand for two real estate investment trust IPOs today speaks to continued worries that commercial mortgage-backed real estate may be the next leg of the financial stool to get kicked out...
Investing in mortgages might not be as bad as many thought.  Chimera Investment Corporation (NYSE: CIM) has already raised more capital on more than one occasion since coming public in 2007 when the...
HCP, Inc. (NYSE: HCP) is raising more cash than expected.  The company has priced a secondary offering of 15.5 million shares of common stock at a price per share of $24.75, above the 11.5 million...
We have two IPO’s today, which sort of got lost in the earnings season shuffle.  Despite the recent market strength and the performance of recent IPO’s, both of these have been disappointing....