CTT News and Press, CatchMark Timber Trust Inc. Class A From 01/21/20

ATLANTA , Jan. 21, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- CatchMark Timber Trust, Inc.  (NYSE: CTT) announced today that Brian M. Davis , previously President and Chief Financial Officer, will succeed Jerry Barag as the company's next Chief Executive Officer and join the company's Board of Directo...

Real Estate Earnings Preview Earnings season kicks off this week in the real estate sector. More than 150 REITs and 100 housing industry components will report 4Q19 earnings over the next six weeks. 'Goldilocks' economic conditions of low inflation, declining interest rates, and moderate e...

Baird analyst Dave Rogers raises Piedmont Office Realty Trust (NYSE: PDM ) to Outperform from Neutral and sets price target at $26. More news on: Piedmont Office Realty Trust, Inc., Franklin Street Properties Corp., Landmark Infrastructure Partners LP, Financial stocks news, Read more ...

REITs: A Decade In Review "Recover and Rebuild" was the theme of the 2010s. Despite entering the 2010s scarred and wounded from the devastation of the financial crisis, REITs and Homebuilders delivered generally strong and steady performance throughout the last decade following an intensel...

REIT investments have been enormously lucrative to investors who got in early and knew what they were doing. The easiest path to outperformance over the past 20 years was simply to load up on REITs, enjoy the dividends and wait: However this does not mean that every REIT investor did well. T...

“Everyone loves the underdog.” That’s how a Men’s Journal article begins, only to contradict itself with the very next line. “ The 15 Greatest Underdog Sports Stories of All Time ” – which, incidentally, doesn’t include a date any...

Before 2017, the highest price that lumber futures ever reached was $493.50 per 1,000 board feet in 1993. In late 2017, the price rose to a marginal new high at $500 and corrected down towards the $400 level. However, in 2018, the illiquid lumber futures market blew through the $500 level as a...

The Internet tells me that Michelangelo once said that “Perfection is no small thing, but it is made up of small things.” Whether Michelangelo actually said that or not, I genuinely don’t know. The internet can be a very misleading place, of course. But someone somewhe...

Our top performer in the Small Cap REIT Portfolio year-to-date is CatchMark Timber ( CTT ). Shares have returned over 65%. With almost 6% allocated to the name, it should be no surprise that this portfolio has returned around 30% year-to-date (surpassing the VNQ by around 250 basis...

Over the years, I’ve witnessed firsthand the vast wealth that can be created by owning real estate. My mother recently retired, although she does maintain a part-time job as a real estate agent. That’s not to say she’s ultra wealthy, only that she created the ability t...