AUSTIN, TX—The all-cash transaction comes on top of 18 months of moves to reduce Forestar's costs and debt and sell off non-core assets.

VIENNA, VA—Although retail posted the lowest property-type scores in Capital One Securities' latest survey of commercial brokers, it also saw the smallest decline in sentiment from last month.

IRVINE, CA—The number of local markets with foreclosure activity below pre-recession levels continues to grow, says Daren Blomquist at ATTOM.

ATLANTA—Avison Young's Sean Moynihan cautions that tenants need to examine existing leases before the new standards take effect, “a process that could take as long as 12 months.”

NEW YORK CITY—Leasing and asset management platform VTS, which merged with Hightower this past November to create a portfolio of some five billion…

NEW YORK CITY—“We have more of the profile of a SEALS team or a Delta Force unit than of several battalions of the US Army,” says Newmark Grubb Knight Frank's Thom Bogle about the firm's new critical transactions platform.

NEW YORK CITY—Ely Razin, CEO of CrediFi Corp., says the launch of CredifX represents “the next generation of both financing and big data” for commercial real estate.

SINGAPORE—Anchor tenant PricewaterhouseCoopers soon will vacate the office tower bearing its name, creating re-leasing opportunities for the property's new ownership.