<rss version="2.0" xmlns:ynewsrss="http://news.yahoo.com/rss.html"><channel><title><![CDATA[Retail Commercial Real Estate News From CoStar Group]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.costar.com/]]></link><description><![CDATA[CoStar Group, Inc. is the leading provider of information services to commercial real estate property investors and sales professionals in the United States and United Kingdom. CoStar's suite of services offers access to the most comprehensive database of commercial real estate information and commercial property listings available in its markets.]]></description><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><category domain="Yahoo"><![CDATA[Business/Real_Estate_and_Housing]]></category><ttl>15</ttl><image><title><![CDATA[CoStar Group, Inc.]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.costar.com/]]></link><url><![CDATA[http://www.costar.com/SharedFiles/Common/images/logos/CoStarGroup112.gif]]></url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Spring Retail Spending Swoon Could Extend into Summer]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.costar.com/News/Article/Spring-Retail-Spending-Swoon-Could-Extend-into-Summer/148579?ref=/News/Article/Spring-Retail-Spending-Swoon-Could-Extend-into-Summer/148579&src=rss]]></link><description><![CDATA[U.S. retail and food services sales increase one-tenth of a percent last month to $419 billion. While meager, it was an improvement over a decline of five-tenths of a percent in March.

Non-store retailers were up 15.4% from April 2012 and auto and other motor vehicle dealers were up 8.8% from last year.

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After a surprising decline of 0.5% in March, little recovery in retail buying in April reflects...]]></description><author><![CDATA[Mark Heschmeyer <news@costar.com>]]></author><pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 17 May 2013 07:17:18 GMT]]></pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Citibank Portfolio Trades for $97.2M]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.costar.com/News/Article/Citibank-Portfolio-Trades-for-$972M/148396?ref=/News/Article/Citibank-Portfolio-Trades-for-$972M/148396&src=rss]]></link><description><![CDATA[Markland Holdings, a private Irish investment group, has sold a portfolio of 47 Citibank branch locations spread across the New York City metropolitan area for $97.2 million, or approximately $620 per square foot, to Path Land Holdings LLC, a group of individual investors.

All of the properties in the 157,000-square-foot portfolio are leased to Citibank under long-term, triple-net lease deals.  The retail branch locations range in size from 1,500...]]></description><author><![CDATA[Justin Sumner <news@costar.com>]]></author><pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 08 May 2013 08:56:19 GMT]]></pubDate></item></channel></rss>