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Blackstone's recent acquisition of Apartment Income REIT Corp. for $10 billion in cash has injected optimism into the commercial real estate mergers and acquisitions market. Industry experts Brian King from LODAS Markets and Kevin Gannon from Robert A. Stanger & Co. Inc. weigh in on the significance of this deal.

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Here is a link to the feature interview with our CEO, Brian King, which aired on Schwab Network.

Here is a link to the feature interview with our CEO, Brian King, which aired on Bloomberg last week.

FundFire: Secondary Sales Back in Spotlight for Semi-Liquid Alts Funds

"Trading in private real estate secondaries, including non-traded REITs, BDCs and private placements, has increased by an order of magnitude compared to last year."

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BREIT and SREIT are available for investors to trade on the LODAS marketplace.

Investors can trade assets like BREIT in the LODAS marketplace.

In the first week since LODAS Markets listed Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust shares, the secondary marketplace saw more interest than it has in the full month since it listed the nontraded REIT’s largest competitor.

LODAS Markets, an operator of a web-based marketplace for the secondary trading of illiquid real estate and alternative investments formerly known as Realto Inc., announced that Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust is now trading on the LODAS marketplace.

Even though Blackstone is still limiting redemptions, investors can now sell into private markets

Overland Park-based LODAS Markets now has two major real estate investors trading on its platform, Blackstone REIT and Starwood REIT, offering their clients better liquidity on investments.

Starwood Real Estate Income Trust (SREIT) fund is now trading on the LODAS Markets platform, which was previously known as Realto and focuses on secondary markets.

LODAS Markets, previously known as Realto Inc., which is the operator of a web-based marketplace for the secondary trading of illiquid real estate and alternative investments, announced that Starwood Real Estate Income Trust is now trading on the LODAS marketplace.

Frustrated institutional and accredited investors who want to trade shares of the popular Starwood Real Estate Income Trust—a private real estate fund which was closed to redemptions in December, after outsize withdrawal requests—will have a new option starting today

After creating a unique market for trading stakes in real estate investment funds, Realto is focused on the next phase of its development: landing partners to host its platform and raise awareness of its service.

Mini-tenders have been a thorn in the side of nontraded REIT sponsors, and they are also on the receiving end of backlash from other industry participants.

Realto Launches Platform to Trade Real Estate and other illiquid. Overland Park-based Realto Securities LLC completed the first trades on its new electronic trading platform for real estate and alternative securities.

Realto Launches Platform for Secondary Trading of Alternative Securities. Realto, a marketplace for the secondary trading of illiquid real estate and alternative securities, has launched its platform by executing trades in Phillips Edison & Co. Class B restricted shares.

A new Overland Park company will introduce an electronic trading platform that helps real estate investors buy and sell interests in projects more easily.