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Investment pouring into women’s sports

by Sports Business Journal

In many ways, 2023 was the year of women’s sports investing. In October, the owners of the Golden State Warriors agreed to pay a record $50 million for a WNBA expansion team. A month later, a group led by Major League Soccer’s Seattle Sounders and private equity firm Carlyle Group closed a $58 million deal to acquire the National Women’s Soccer League’s Seattle Reign. And Michele Kang in December agreed to acquire the London City Lionesses, England’s top independent women’s soccer team, for an undisclosed sum as part of her strategy to buy women’s teams around the world.

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Holding their ground: Climate change increasing stress on aging dams

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Heavy rainfall generated widespread flooding in the upper Midwest in late June 2024, putting at least one aging dam at risk. In southern Minnesota, the Blue Earth River cut a path around the Rapidan Dam in Rapidan Township, about 15 miles south of Mankato, on June 24, putting the structure at imminent risk of failing. Officials warned local residents that if the dam burst, the river could rise by two feet, but said evacuations were not needed.

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Hot properties: Small-bay industrial and single-family rentals appear especially strong

by Chris Fiscelli

Although institutional real estate has generated strong historical returns, sector return variations have always been present, have increased in recent years, and will continue to diverge in the future. Therefore, sector selection in today’s environment will be critical to future returns. Rather than simply analyzing historical vacancy rates, for example, thinking thematically involves examining demographics, the forces shaping new settlement patterns, living and workplace preferences, technological innovations and lifestyle trends.

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M&A, what the hey? The drivers of real estate industry growth and consolidation

by Geoffrey Dohrmann

Our readers have been wondering about the M&A activity they’ve witnessed recently. They want to know why it’s happening and what it means for the industry. First, I should note that firms acquiring and merging with other firms is a theme we’ve witnessed for more than 40 years — certainly since 1979, when I first entered the business. Being small means being nimble. But investors have grown dramatically in sophistication in the past 44 years, while the size of the portfolios they manage has ballooned — in many cases into the billions of U.S. dollars.

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