Washington, DC

The Federal Housing Finance Agency and the National Association of Realtors, in separate reports, deliver good news about the US housing market.

Meanwhile a separate survey from Deloitte shows that few companies are prepared for the accounting change.

The activist shareholder has expressed its concerns to the REIT before.

STR says the drop can be attributed to the shift from urban to suburban sales and to sales that were outside of the top 25 markets.

In general the data center real estate market thrived last year with investment totalling more than $20 billion -- surpassing the volume for the three previous years combined.

Mizuho Research Managing Director Richard Anderson says that many of the demographic and market trends working against senior housing now are set to pass.

This is a buy-and-hold investment for Douglas Development as the retail tenant just signed a 10-year lease.

House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling wants to attach nearly three dozen bills to the package, which could threaten the support of Senate moderates for the measure.