The real-estate investment trusts Mack-Cali and Apartment Income have seen millions of dollars of stock purchases recently.
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Two real-estate investment trusts have seen millions of dollars in stock purchases lately, even as both are outpacing the market this year.
Shares of Mack-Cali Realty (ticker: CLI), an office and multifamily properties REIT, and Apartment Investment and Management (AIV), which focuses on the multifamily market, have soared 26.2% and 18.9%, respectively, so far in 2021. The S&P 500 index has only managed to rise 7.0% year to date.
Investment firm Bow Street paid $5.3 million on March 25 for 345,963 Mack-Cali shares, an average price of $15.52 each. This transaction follows Bow Street’s $6.4 million purchases over March 4 and 5 of a total of 442,000 shares, a per-share average price of $14.51.
Bow Street didn’t respond to a request for comment.
A year ago, Bow Street was calling for the ouster of Mack-Cali CEO Michael DeMarco, and the investment firm was in a dispute regarding its representatives on the REIT’s board. On June 10, 2020, however, Mack-Cali agreed to raise its board’s size to 15 directors from 11, and to seat Akiva Katz, a Bow Street co-founder and managing partner. In late July 2020, Mack-Cali announced DeMarco’s departure.
This month, after the close of trading March 19, Mack-Cali stock slipped after the REIT announced that its dividend would remain suspended for the rest of 2021. It last paid a quarterly dividend of 20 cents a share on July 24, 2020.
Apartment Investment director Terry Considine paid $3.4 million from March 17 through 24 for a total of 600,000 shares, a per-share average price of $5.72. Considine purchased Apartment Investment stock through his retirement account. He now owns 6.3 million shares when including partnership units and stock options.
Considine is CEO of Air Communities (AIRC), a REIT focused on apartment communities.
Apartment Investment didn’t respond to a request to make Considine available for comment. Air Communities declined to make him available for comment.
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