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About Flagship Communities Real Estate Investment Trust
Flagship Communities Real Estate Investment Trust is a newly-created, internally-managed, unincorporated, open-ended real estate investment trust established pursuant to a declaration of trust under the laws of the Province of Ontario. The REIT has been formed to own and operate a portfolio of 45 income-producing manufactured housing communities comprising 8,255 lots located in Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio and Tennessee, and a fleet of approximately 600 manufactured homes for lease to residents of such housing communities…”
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With that segment of the headline reported, tonight’s featured focus segment follows the quotable quotes, left-right news bullets, and two of our three business nightly graphic summaries of the markets at the closing bell. The manufactured home connected equities graphic snapshot for today follows the Sam Zell Q&A with Forbes and the related/recent reports.
Quotes That Shed Light – American Social, Industry, National Issues…
Notice: MHProNews is re-evaluating the long-standing use here of Fox Business in these left right media headlines. This is an apt time to remind readers that these headlines are to provide readers with a quick sense of news that may be moving the markets, from both the left and right of the mainstream media.
We are continuing our test of using headlines from Newsmax, which follows CNN below.
Headlines from left-of-center CNN Business
- Change is coming
- YOKOHAMA, KANAGAWA, JAPAN – 2020/10/31: In this photo illustration a woman swipes with her finger on the screen of the new iPhone 12.
- Apple will slash App Store fees as antitrust pressure mounts
- JPMorgan lays out the election scenario that could send markets into a tailspin
- Wall Street’s $8 trillion man: Markets are ‘tired’ of Trump chaos
- Joe Biden fires an early warning shot at Wall Street
- Stocks finish in the red
- Investors are getting greedy again
- MISINFORMATION WATCH Trump continues to claim he won the election. He did not.
- Volkswagen says it might spin off Lamborghini and Ducati
- Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer’s new company launches its first product
- Honda unveils its new Civic on Twitch to attract younger buyers
- Norwegian Air has filed for bankruptcy
- SoftBank billionaire Masa Son is stockpiling cash for ‘worst-case scenario’
- NEW YORK, NEW YORK – NOVEMBER 17: Niko Tsocanos places former President Barack Obama's memoir on a window display at the Greenlight Bookstore in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn on November 17, 2020 in New York City. “A Promised Land” is the first of two memoirs written by former President Obama.
- Obama’s highly anticipated book sells 890,000 copies on its first day
- A woman looks out at the skyline of lower Manhattan and One World Trade Center as the sun sets in New York City on November 17, 2020 as seen from Jersey City, New Jersey.
- How a Covid vaccine could upend real estate markets — again
- This is what the KFC of the future will look like
- MARKETS
- CORNER OFFICE
- Roger Ferguson, chief executive officer and president of Teachers Insurance & Annuity Association of America (TIAA), stands during the National Association of Business Economics (NABE) economic policy conference in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, Feb. 24, 2020. This year’s annual conference theme is “Examining Policy Prescriptions in an Election Year.”
- Roger Ferguson, a Black Wall St exec who manages $1 trillion, steps down
- George Soros will sell his stake in Palantir
- Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway bets on drug stocks
- Jeff Bezos gives $800 million to fight climate change
- Elon Musk is now an A-lister on Wall Street
- UP IN THE AIR
- A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from launch complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on November 15, 2020. – NASA's SpaceX Crew-1 mission is the first crew rotation mission of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agencys Commercial Crew Program. NASA astronauts Mike Hopkins, Victor Glover, and Shannon Walker, and astronaut Soichi Noguchi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) are scheduled to launch at 7:27 p.m. EST on November 15, from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center.
- SpaceX-NASA mission: Four astronauts arrive at International Space Station
- Boeing’s 737 Max approved to fly passengers again
- Richard Branson wants to be the first ‘space billionaire’
- Airlines will struggle long after its safe to fly again
- Norwegian Air has filed for bankruptcy
Headlines from right-of-center Newsmax
- Dick Morris to Newsmax TV: ‘Georgia May Well Be Overturned’
- Ballot counting earlier this month in Georgia. (Getty Images)
- Election 2020
- Deadline at Hand for Hand Tally of Presidential Race in Georgia
- Jody Hice to Newsmax TV: ‘Hopeful’ Georgia Recount Will Be Done on Time
- Trump Critics Seek Ethics Probe of Graham
- Trump Pays $3 Million for Partial Recount in Wisconsin
- Poll: Half of Republicans Believe Election ‘Rigged’ Against Trump
- Ruddy: Newsmax Won’t Project Joe Biden Winner, Here’s Why
- Poll: Warnock Holds Slim Lead Over Loeffler in Ga.
- Poll: Perdue, Ossoff Tied in Ga. Senate Race
- Wayne County Reverses, Certifies Detroit Votes
- More Election 2020
- The Trump Presidency
- Fox News Slogan Seems to Take Aim at Trump
- NY Times: Biden Likely to Scuttle Alaska Wildlife Refuge Oil Leases
- Judge Sullivan Orders US to Stop Expelling Unaccompanied Migrant Kids
- John Bolton Fears Trump ‘Enemies List,’ More Firings
- GOP Senators Urge Trump to Declare West Bank Settlement Products ‘Made in Israel’
- US Travel Restrictions at Canada, Mexico Borders Set to Be Extended Until Dec. 21
- Trump to Spend Thanksgiving at White House
- Trump Fires Head of DHS Election Security Agency
- US Dropping Case Against Former Mexican Defense Secretary
- Hillary Clinton: Trump’s COVID Stimulus ‘Not Sufficient’
- Hillary Clinton said Donald Trump’s COVID-19 stimulus had not reached those in the greatest need and that she hoped for an agreement on new relief before the new U.S. Congress takes over in early January.
- Pfizer Vaccine Deliveries Could Start ‘Before Christmas’
- Job Picture Worsens Amid Latest Coronavirus Surge
- Another Bitcoin Bubble? Backers Hope This Time Is Different
- Lockdowns Test Economic Endurance of Desperate Americans
Market Indicator Closing Summaries – Yahoo Finance Closing Tickers on MHProNews…
Featured Focus –
Where Business, Politics and Investing Can Meet
Forbes has covered Sam Zell and his manufactured home community interests before. See the 2018 MHProNews report linked below about Zell and ELS.
More recently, Forbes did a Q&A with Zell found at this link here. The guts of the interview with the ever-colorful Zell is shown below.
Sam Zell: I don’t think this is going to be as radical a change as some of the savants are suggesting. The election was not a blue wave, and I assume the Republicans will keep control of the senate. So I don’t see any radical change in policy. All of the stuff that was discussed during the Democratic primaries will go back to the left where it belongs. And I think Joe Biden is likely to run, for sure a left-of-center, but a center administration. I think Donald Trump did the country a great favor. He didn’t drain the swamp but he certainly upset the swamp, and I think the net result of all that is going to be very positive for maintaining a centralized country.
CH: So capitalists need not fear? There’s no need to sell everything in advance of increasing capital gains taxes, for example? You’re not planning for that?
Zell: Assuming Georgia seats at least one Republican senator which is highly likely, I think that the kind of radical tax policy and radical climate policy and radical energy policy are not going to be terribly relevant going forward, and I think that is a very strong plus for the U.S. economy.
CH: Interest rates are historically low. Which obviously helps the valuations of your real estate. Any chance we will see zero or below on the 10-year Treasury?
Zell: I don’t think so. The challenge of the next few years is to keep interest rates as low as possible. I think the risks of inflation are much higher than the risks of deflation. Rates have to stay low because we can’t afford to pay back in a higher rate than we’re dealing with today. This slows the whole economy. I read in Grant’s Interest Rate Observer an analogy that zero interest rates are like basketball before there was a shot clock. Very low interest rates result in deferral of decision making.
CH: When money’s that cheap, you get zombie companies.
Zell: It’s unusual when you’re deciding what to do — whether to make an investment or not — and all of a sudden taking an extra three months to make your decision has no cost.
CH: Does this play into the SPAC craze? Special purpose acquisition companies have raised tens of billions this year in equity financing, perhaps in part because investors don’t like the alternative, which is to invest in low yielding debt?
Zell: Some of these issues influence the SPAC wave — which is one of the few things I’ve ever seen where Wall Street created a product that is beneficial for the investor.
CH: Ok…
Zell: You can buy a SPAC today and the only risk you’re taking is the opportunity cost of having that money put away for two years and you can’t get it. And you could sell your stock. You have a choice. Say yes, say no, take your money back. It’s a fabulous deal for an investor. It establishes public capital and takes one of the unknowns out of the transaction. And I think we’re in an environment right now where there’s a lot of companies — like family companies or inside of private equity firms — that want to find a public company exit. The number of public companies has dropped dramatically over the last 10 years as we’ve taken all these companies private.
CH: The landscape must be like a smorgasbord for you. What are you going to purchase via Equity Distribution Acquisition Corp.?
Zell: We have a very broad mandate so we can pretty much do what we want. We’re interested in the industrial space, manufacturing and distribution. SPACs have so far focused on electric trucks and space ship travel and those kind of things that can’t be measured.
CH: Hard to do a discounted cash flow analysis.
Zell: You’ve got to come up with preposterous assumptions for those things to work. They may have. I’m not that smart. But my attitude is that the environment right now suggests there are a lot of companies looking for homes. They’re not necessarily distressed, but things have changed.
CH: You’ve long been a follower of megatrends — making real estate investments around expectations of what the Baby Boomers are going to do, for example. What are the trends you still hold to and which are you discarding?
Zell: The number one megatrend in my head is an un-megatrend. All this discussion about the “end of urbanization,” and working from home, and the world is going to change, and you’re going to live in Noplace, Iowa and you’re going to work for a clothing company. It’s not going to happen. We’re social animals. I’m happy to be very clear that I think people are looking at this current lockdown and extrapolating results that are preposterous.
CH: I understand that during the pandemic you’ve been working from the office in Chicago?
Zell: I’ve been here every day. For the first three or four months there was no one else here. It was a little quiet. But I’ve never been an at-home worker. Covid, because it has so many uncertainties, tends to generate all kinds of speculation. When Covid became an epidemic at the end of March we were looking at 2 million deaths by the end of the year. We’re one-tenth that number. The economy, unless you’re in the travel and tourist business, the economy ain’t so bad. The numbers of our companies how they did last year versus this year, a number of them are plusses, despite the lockdowns. It’s a little bit like Mark Twain saying the reports of his death are greatly exaggerated.
CH: Well we thank you for your time today, and look forward to 2021 being a better year.
Zell: It’s going to be an interesting year. More than anything else I want to see activity. Because activity delineates price discovery. We haven’t had a lot of price discovery, and we need some. ”
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An MHProNews report on Zell’s ELS is linked below.
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Manufactured Housing Industry Investments Connected Closing Equities Tickers
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