Posted by Katie Demeria on 2/3/2015 on Richmondbizsense.com A local real estate investment company has grabbed a handful of hotels in its latest round of acquisitions. Glen Allen-based Lingerfelt CommonWealth Partners acquired five hotels in four Southeastern cities, the company said Monday. Terms of the deal and the identity of the seller were [...]

Posted by Katie Demeria on 2/3/2015 on Richmondbizsense.com A downtown law firm is moving two blocks up Main Street for some extra legroom. Eckert Seamans, a Pittsburgh-based firm that has operated in Richmond since 2009, will be setting up shop in the SunTrust Center at 919 E. Main St. in late March with [...]

Posted by Pete Stewart on Forest2Market.com 1. The sleeping giant will awake to biomass demand. For years, the pulp and paper industry's attitude toward bioenergy demand has shifted between head-in-the-sand and wait-and-see. In 2015, this sleeping giant will awaken as pockets of the US South experience significant price appreciation, the result of [...]

Posted by Javon Carter  on Forest2market.com The fragmented nature of timberland ownership across the US South can make it difficult to identify wood suppliers. Non-industrial private forest (NIPF) landowners – whose primary business or means of income comes from a source other than timberland ownership – own a majority of the forestland [...]

Posted by Tee Clarkson on 6/24/14 12:00 AM on Richmond.com It’s easy to overlook. We head to rivers and lakes, the woods, and marshes without taking the time to realize, that for all the wild places, there are organizations and individuals dedicated to protecting them. There are people who wake every morning [...]

Posted by Suz-Anne Kinney on 10/22/14 1:53 PM on Forest2Market.com Southern Pine lumber exports to China have increased 430 percent in the last five years, a result of a campaign conducted by the Southern Forest Products Association (SFPA) with funding from the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service's (FAS) Market Access Program [...]

Second Quarter CHICAGO, IL, July 25, 2014 – The National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries (NCREIF) has released second quarter 2014 results of the NCREIF Timberland Index. The index returned 1.08% for the quarter, which was split between 0.41% appreciation and 0.66% income. This was down from first quarter’s [...]

Second Quarter Returns Decline CHICAGO, IL, July 21, 2014 – The National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries (NCREIF) has released the second quarter 2014 results of the NCREIF Farmland Index.The total return for the quarter was 1.73%, comprised of 0.78% appreciation and 0.95% income return. This was below second [...]

CHICAGO, IL, April 25, 2014 – The National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries (NCREIF) has released first quarter 2014 results of the NCREIF Timberland Index. The index returned 1.60% for the quarter, which was split between 0.91% appreciation and 0.69% income. This was down from fourth quarter’s 5.92% total [...]

CHICAGO, IL, January 24, 2014 – The National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries (NCREIF) has released fourth quarter 2013 results of the NCREIF Timberland Index. The index returned 5.92% for the quarter, which was split between 5.33% appreciation and 0.60% income. This is the highest quarterly return since fourth [...]