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Kite Realty to unload up to $500M in properties

The Indianapolis-based retail real estate firm hopes to pay down debt, improve the quality of its assets and focus on preferred markets. Its shares fell on Wednesday after it revealed the plan and underwhelming quarterly results.

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With spotlight looming, REITs stressing investor education

Real estate investment trusts like Indianapolis-based Simon Property Group are preparing for a surge of attention as they get their own grouping in major U.S. stock indexes. Their first task: educating investors who have no idea how to evaluate the industry.

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Mainstreet’s Turner to sell REIT in $2.3B deal

HealthLease Properties REIT, which is led by Mainstreet Property’s Zeke Turner, will be sold to Ohio-based Health Care REIT Inc., along with 17 projects Mainstreet has under construction. The deal includes 45 future projects.

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Kite’s stock jumps following $1.2B acquisition

Kite Realty Group Trust’s pending purchase of an Oak Brook, Ill.-based rival would nearly double the company’s portfolio of shopping centers. It also would give the local firm a foothold in many new, highly desirable markets.

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Mall owners go from first to last in REIT market

Shopping mall owners like Simon Property Group, the best-performing U.S. property stocks for four years, have tumbled to the worst as sluggish retail sales and limited opportunities to expand drive investors to look elsewhere for earnings growth.

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