PARSIPPANY, NJ-Inquiries and interest in Garden State office space are on the rise, reports Colliers International - especially in Jersey City.

Student Housing's biggest names gather for our lunch time special session for a town hall. Hear from the best on what's driven their success and their view from the top on the student housing market.

Rising construction costs and vast regional differences in design make it difficult to gauge project costs effectively . Hear from the contractors, developers and designers about maintaining construction costs and trends in student housing design.

With public REIT prices down at the end of 2013 and in to 2014, where do the REITs stand with investment? Is it a market indicator and who is entering the investment space: smaller niche investors, major institutional investors and the usual players. Hear what the investment landscape looks like in 2014-15 and how the acquisition pipeline is shaping up.

Property management is rapidly changing in the traditional multifamily arena and in student housing. Hear about strategies for vendor and technology management, effective staffing and training, managing costs and integrating student life in to your communities. What's working, what's changing, and what to avoid.

Student housing remains a regional business for companies with a national footprint. Hear from the developers themselves on trends in development across the country and if we're at risk of overdeveloping, and where. What are the trends in development: from cottage style housing to urban infill, what are the demands of today's students and how is student housing affecting traditional MF as gen Y becomes the new renter demographic.

HOUSTON–The Denver-based company paid $11.5 million for the newly constructed, 149,000-square-foot distribution facility.

PHOENIX—Merced Restart Phoenix Investors I, LLC purchased for $24.9 million Camelback Arboleda, a 178,792-square-foot, multi-tenant office building located at 16th Street and Camelback Road, in the heart of Phoenix's Camelback Corridor.