{"id":5527,"date":"2009-11-10T13:45:18","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T17:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=5527"},"modified":"2009-11-10T13:45:18","modified_gmt":"2009-11-10T17:45:18","slug":"real-estate-portfolio-magazine-qa-with-william-hardin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2009\/11\/real-estate-portfolio-magazine-qa-with-william-hardin\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Estate Portfolio Magazine Q&amp;A with William Hardin."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Q&amp;A with William Hardin, Florida International University<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>William Hardin is professor of finance and real estate and director of real estate programs at Florida International University, and a member of the board of directors of the American Real Estate Society. He has authored or co-authored some 40 papers on varied topics in commercial real estate investment, including REIT governance and financial structure.<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5529\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5529\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/hardin-thumb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-5529\" title=\"hardin-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/hardin-thumb-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"hardin-thumb\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5529\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">William Hardin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Portfolio: In one of your most recent papers you found that REIT-owned apartment properties generated higher effective rents than otherwise similar properties owned by non-REITs, at least in the Atlanta area. What accounts for the superior operating performance by REITs?<\/p>\n<p>Hardin: There are several potential advantages including local market knowledge gained from ownership of multiple properties, longer-term property and portfolio strategies and the ability to attract and maintain competent management. Most REITs have direct, real-time property knowledge that they generate through their direct participation in the space market. REITs and other larger operators get this information more quickly than most other market participants.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/business.fiu.edu\/pdf\/PrintNovember2009\/Real-Estate-Portfolio-NovDec2009.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Q&amp;A with William Hardin, Florida International University<\/a>,\u201c an article from <em>Real Estate Portfolio<\/em> Magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q&amp;A with William Hardin, Florida International University William Hardin is professor of finance and real estate and director of real estate programs at Florida International University, and a member of the board of directors of the American Real Estate Society. He has authored or co-authored some 40 papers on varied topics in commercial real estate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[619,2836,1838,3806],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5527"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}