25 REITs Most Likely To Buy Your Property in 2013
This may well be the year that property owners in secondary and tertiary markets get a chance to cash in on the spending spree of the nation's largest publicly held REITs and real estate operating companies. The torrid pace of acquisitions seen within...

Corporate Relocation Activity Picking Up As Business Confidence Rises
As business confidence in the economic recovery deepens, corporate c-suites are at least thinking about when and where to expand their operations. Although the evidence is largely anecdotal so far, commercial real estate brokers and corporate site...

Will Building Boom End the Party for Apt. Investors?
Apartment developers and investors likely can look forward to enjoying another year or two of high occupancy and pricing power in a strengthening economy. But the music may stop by 2015 when the full brunt from the growing wave of new supply is expected...

Single-Family Rental REITs Continue Tapping Capital Markets
The ranks of public or soon-to-be public companies that own portfolios of for-rent single-family homes swelled this week as one new firm registered for an initial public offering, another firm completed its IPO and yet a third completed a follow-on offering...

Rolls-Royce Office Complex Sells for $79.1M
American Realty Capital Trust IV, Inc. has acquired the Rolls-Royce Meridian Center office complex at 450-525 S. Meridian St. in Indianapolis, IN from Eli Lilly and Company for $79.1 million, or about $186 per square foot, exclusive of closing costs. The...

Kimco Acquires Ptnr's Stake in Marketplace at Factoria
Kimco Realty Corp. (NYSE: KIM) has acquired a majority of its joint-venture equity partner's ownership interest in the Marketplace at Factoria in Bellevue, WA in a transaction that valued the center at $130.75 million. Kimco previously held a 50-percent...

CoStar's People of Note (May 12 - 18)
This week's People of Note includes the following markets: Detroit, Charlotte, Phoenix, New York, Charleston, South Florida, and San Diego. DETROIT Farbman Group Promotes Gutman, Kalil By Tim Heise Farbman Group, a Southfield, MI-based, full...

Two Big Deals To Reshape Commercial Mortgage Servicing Arena
Two big deals last week will reshape the commercial mortgage servicing arena and likely affect the outcome of billions of dollars in properties. CMBS special servicer, ORIX Capital Markets LLC, hired two firms to place $1.3 billion of defaulted commercial...

Blackstone Forms Two New REITs
The ranks of real estate investment trusts continues to grow with Blackstone Group seeks to establish two new commercial REITs. The first, BRE Select Hotels Corp., just this week completed the acquisition of Richmond, VA-based Apple REIT Six Inc. for...

Retail Rent Growth Finally Takes Root Across U.S. Metros
Following a recent string of relentlessly unexciting market trends in retail real estate over the past several quarters comes this distinctly positive news for retail property owners -- quoted asking rents have finally turned upward across all retail...