IRVINE, CA—Although it hasn't matched the pace set in 2015, "2016 has been a year of slow yet steady growth for commercial real estate as a whole," says Peter Muoio, chief economist with Ten-X.

NEW YORK CITY—Conversely, volume in portfolio and entity-level sales is down by nearly one-third year to date, according to Real Capital Analytics.

IRVINE, CA—Single-family rental investors "will be an important and likely growing force in the real estate market for years to come," says Daren Blomquist at ATTOM Data Solutions.

ATLANTA—The acquisition will bring Pillar Financial's multifamily lending business, among a handful to be licensed by all three agencies, into the SunTrust fold.

GREENWICH, CT—Much of the 280-property select-service portfolio came into Starwood Capital Group ownership with the $1.2-billion acquisition of TMI Hospitality in 2014.

STAMFORD, CT—"We are done listening to excuses from the Taubman family for the company's undervaluation and inferior operating performance," Land and Buildings' Jonathan Litt writes in a letter to Taubman Centers' independent directors.

CHARLESTON, SC—Greystar CEO Bob Faith calls the Asian multifamily joint venture with Macquarie Capital "a natural extension" of the vision with which he founded the company in the early 1990s.

NEW YORK CITY—“Many participants are saying that we'll see market share reductions for CMBS” when the risk-retention rule takes effect at year's end, Trepp's Thomas Fink said in a recent presentation to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.