RICHARDSON, TX—"Staggering inventory expansion" marks the top 10 submarkets for apartment construction, according to MPF Research. Although four of the 10 are in Texas, none of the four is the busiest.

NEW YORK CITY—"As we look at growth and expansion, we're looking at what our clients are doing," the newly named Americas president of Cushman & Wakefield's Valuation & Advisory group tells GlobeSt.com. "They're becoming more sophisticated and more diverse."

WASHINGTON, DC—WalletHub surveyed 300 US cities on key metrics ranging from turnover rate to job growth, ranking them from best to worst overall. Some individual markets scored best, or worst, on individual measurements.

NEW YORK CITY—On a nationwide basis, home prices as measured by the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Indices have risen at a consistent 4.8% annual pace over the past two years, says S&P Dow Jones Indices' David M. Blitzer.

NEW YORK CITY—Although trade and investment slowed in the heavy weather of the year's first half, "we expect those categories to pick up steam, supporting stronger corporate profits, inflation and real GDP growth," says chief economist Kevin Thorpe at Cushman & Wakefield.

SANTA BARBARA, CA—The metro area with the fastest growing apartment rents on a year-over-year basis is in Northern California, and so is the one with the steepest decline in annual rent gains, says Yardi Matrix.

WASHINGTON, DC—The National Association of Realtors' Lawrence Yun attributes the "tepid and disappointing pace" of Q2 economic growth to ongoing overseas weakness and the slowdown in business investment despite historically low interest rates.

NEW YORK CITY—CBRE's Christian Sonne says the trade area for self-storage facilities is "relatively small, generally within a three-mile radius for a typical suburban property."