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The tough retail environment hasn’t stopped some niche performers from growing sales robustly over the past three years. These 10 stand out for strong organic growth. Rank is determined by three year growth as a percentage.

10. Texas Roadhouse
Annual Revenue: $880 million
3-Year Growth: 47.3%

9. The Buckle
Annual Revenue: $792 million
3-Year Growth: 49.4%

8. Buffalo Wild Wings
Annual Revenue: $422 million
3-Year Growth: 51.8%
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Discussing whether it’s time to raise rates, with Scott Anderson, Wells Fargo and Andrew Busch, BMO Capital Markets.

Hawkins: Rental rates a bright spot for industrial space

Right now, rental rates for industrial space are anywhere from 20% to 40% below replacement cost of new construction, notes Phil Hawkins, president and CEO of DCT Industrial Trust. Supply capacity has reduced significantly, which means the long-term prospects for rental rates will remain bright for some time, he says. “The future is very positive,” he says despite the highly competitive current leasing environment.

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Week of March 21-27

- Legislation to overhaul the financial-regulatory system appears to be gaining momentum, and key republicans acknowledge that the measure likely will pass.

- Dubai offers $9.5 billion to back Dubai World’s debt restructuring.

- General Growth Property’s bankruptcy reorganization proposal is expected this week.

- The U.K. government is planning to tweak REIT regulations to allow them to pay dividends out in stock instead of cash.

- Investment funds are going straight to bankruptcy court records to find distressed investment opportunities as few of these transactions come to market.
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For the Week of February 27 - March 5

- Does a strong REIT recovery after its drop in January signal the ability for REITs to go on the offensive?

- Could a Beijing real estate bubble pose a threat to world markets?

- Apartment REITs may debate build vs. buy as demand grows in the near future.

- While many REIT managers say demand for their offices, stores and warehouses is on the rebound, data shows that the real draw for tenants is falling rents.

- Colonial Properties is selling up to $50M of stock. Read the rest of this entry »

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For this week’s top ten, Llenrock is looking back at some of the largest M&A deals of the past decade involving a REIT on either side of the deal. While these top ten deals all carry substantial price tags, they are only a small fraction of the $215 billion in total transactions from 2004 to 2009. Not surprising, there were no deals done in 2009. For the complete list of deals see REIT.com’s statistical publications page.

10. Blackstone Group LP acquires CarrAmerica Realty Corp. $5.6 bil
Deal Completed on Jul. 13 2006

9. SL Green Realty Corp. acquires Reckson Associates Realty Corp. $6.0 bil
Deal Completed on Jan. 25 2007
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- The Fed is looking to to calm the markets down after the discount rate increase.

- General Growth Properties bluntly turns down Simon Properties’ publicly announced $10 bil offer.

- 11 US banks that received TARP money posted a 13% increase in loan originations in December.

- Wells Fargo tops 2009 mortgage servicers ranking list.

- Kansas’ own “Fedstradamus” grimly predicts that rising deficits and maintaining interest rates at zero, may be our demise again.
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