Capital Markets

Amazon's big move will clearly impact housing, but office will see a shortage too, and not only for Amazon's campus but also for ancillary businesses.

Yet CEM Benchmarking's Alexander Beath sees equity REITs' under-representation in the funds' portfolios as “a significant missed opportunity to generate substantial returns with lower annual investment costs.”

CMBS 1.0 transactions now have a delinquency rate of more than 43%; however, Fitch Ratings says these pre-2009 deals represent an increasingly small slice of the pie.

Jan B. Brzeski of Arixa Capital Advisors analyzes current bank lending regulations, why they are so heavily regulated and what regulators should focus on.

Although the sector is healthy, investor interest also comes from the problems they now see in other sectors like office and retail.

“The American consumer drives the train of the US economy,” the Moody's Analytics chief economist told a ULI New York audience Wednesday.

“This portfolio sale is part of the $1.1 billion of new state-of-the-art industrial assets Bridge will sell in 2017,” says Steve Poulos, founder/CEO of Bridge Development Partners.

Along with a few other projects in the North End of Shaw, JBG SMITH has helped to redefine the area, which is popular with millennials.