La Quinta's owned lodging properties will be spun off into a publicly traded REIT to be led by its current CEO, Keith Cline.

At this week's NMHC Annual Meeting, Berkadia's Ernie Katai heard repeatedly that “there is just a need to continue to get capital out,” he tells GlobeSt.com.

From an investment standpoint, "few asset classes offer as compelling a case for near-term optimism as the life sciences industry," says CBRE's Scott Marshall.

Chosen by a special Federal Reserve committee as its preferred alternative to Libor, the Secured Overnight Funding Rate is tied to "the extremely liquid, high-volume repo market," Mission Capital Advisors' Jillian Mariutti tells GlobeSt.com.

The combination, which VICI's board said was "not in the best interests of the company," would create the nation's largest triple-net lease REIT by enterprise value.

Although tax reform might boost hiring in office-using sectors, "it's more likely that we're not going to see a huge increase over what we had projected," says Andrea Cross with CBRE.

For its first transaction under an investment mandate it secured last summer, CapStack partnered with Gastonia, NC-based MACC Venture Partners.

Negligible maturing loan volume is likely to improve the late-pay picture further this year, although it may also contribute to a decline in new issuance.