Comprising a $700-million sale-leaseback and a $700-million mortgage investment, the completion of the deal with Medical Properties Trust coincides with Steward Health Care's merger with IASIS.

ShopOne Centers is led by CEO Michael Carroll, who had served in a similar capacity at Brixmor Property Group.

Rob Wilkinson, European CEO at AEW, says the area surrounding 100 New Oxford St. has "a strong and growing momentum behind it.”

Although the results vary among the five major sectors, “there is no denying the overall softening of commercial real estate pricing,” says Peter Muoio at Ten-X.

Co-founders Jeff Friedman and Mark Zytko will continue to lead the commercial real estate credit platform which they launched in 2004.

“We streamlined an historically time-consuming and arduous process,” says Chris Hurn, CEO of Fountainhead Commercial Capital.

“Change must be carefully considered to those specific aspects of the tax code that have an outsized impact on the multifamily sector," say the National Multifamily Housing Council and National Apartment Association.

With Toronto topping this year's Global Real Estate Bubble Index, three quarters of the gateway markets studied by UBS are either overvalued or in bubble territory.