Alternative investments

A new private market real estate investment trust is available to investors interested in adding real estate to their portfolios.  Fractional investments grant individual investors access to the historically resilient and appreciating real estate asset class. Investors who may otherwise have...

Despite economic headwinds, U.S. industrial properties are still a highly desirable asset class with rents on an upward trajectory. Investors closed $44.4 billion in industrial real estate deals this year through October, compared to $27.9 billion in office sales over the same period, according to...

You're bound to go through several recessions by the time you retire. A trusted way of minimizing their effects on your retirement account is to diversify and establish multiple income streams. Diversifying your investments can help you weather market conditions and provide you with more...

A Denmark-based 3D printing company has pioneered Guatemala's first 3D-printed, earthquake-resistant house. The structure, which is 527 square feet, was built to withstand earthquakes up to 9.0 in magnitude. It features several unique innovations, including a palm-tree leaf roof and 9-foot ceilings...

While rising interest rates, capital hesitance and construction costs are contributing to slowed real estate investment and development in the U.S., international investors aren't deterred. International investors and developers still see the U.S. as a stable place to invest and build,...

Real estate mogul Grant Cardone believes successful people use fear as motivation. "When you push past your comfort zone you are forcing your brain to create new pathways," Cardone wrote in a LinkedIn post in August. "When you start taking new actions at new levels, you will experience fear....

Multifamily construction starts remained high during the first half of the year, but new development activity is starting to slow. The supply of new apartments will be up over the next two years but decline for the three subsequent years, according to the Yardi Matrix multifamily supply forecast....

For investors looking to add multifamily real estate to their portfolio comes a student-housing opportunity out of East Lansing, Michigan.  Hunters Ridge Apartments & Townhomes is an equity investment in a 170-unit student housing facility at Michigan State University. The units consist of...

A private market offering for a redevelopment project in downtown Pittsburgh is nearing the closing of the funding round with only 25% of shares remaining. 300 Sixth Ave. is a project seeking to reposition a property that previously served as the headquarters of GNC Holding Inc. into a mixed-use...

Dubbed the Oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffett is renowned for his simple and frugal lifestyle. Despite being the sixth richest person globally, with a net worth estimated at $120 billion, Buffett continues to live in the same modest home in Omaha that he purchased in 1958 for just $31,500. Adjusted...

Housing in opportunity zones continues to keep up with price gains in broader markets. Median single-family home and condo prices rose from the second quarter to the third quarter in 54% of the opportunity zones around the country and increased at least 5% in nearly half of them, according to a...

"Shark Tank" investor Kevin O'Leary likes watches so much that he wore two of them at the Benzinga Fintech Deal Day & Awards. "The watch market has actually beat the S&P now for the eighth year in a row," O'Leary said Monday at Benzinga's...

Bob Elliott is co-founder, CEO and chief investment officer at Unlimited, a fintech company specializing in building products that replicate the index returns of alternative investments. Before founding Unlimited, Elliott was a chief business officer of the healthcare company Roviant Sciences....

Arnold Schwarzenegger's story reads like the blueprint of the American Dream.  As an immigrant from Austria who arrived with just $20 in his pocket, he eventually became a seven-time Mr. Olympia, a Hollywood superstar and a two-term governor of California. His journey seems like the...

Airbnb Inc. is in the spotlight. On Sept. 5, New York City implemented what Airbnb calls a "de facto ban" on the short-term rental platform. The number of short-term listings on Airbnb in New York City, one of the platform's top markets, has seen a significant decline. And according to "Rich Dad...