Peter Muoio, the head of the newly formed Auction.com research team, sees a lot of uncertainty in the market right now due to various headwinds in the economy.

WASHINGTON, DC-The election. The fiscal cliff. The last-minute decision not to default on the debt. Sequestration. It's all becoming white noise to Main Street.

TUSTIN, CA-GlobeSt.com learns exclusively that the complex assignments were sold under the direction of the State Court-appointed receiver Pat Galentine, principal of Coreland Cos.

Auction.com's Paulsen sees a slight increase in office-asset transactions this year and says many of those trades could happen in secondary markets.

RIVERSIDE, CA-The L.A. based investment firm buys a 147,194-square-foot property here and expects to continue “aggressively expanding further into core markets in 2013,” GlobeSt.com exclusively learns.

Auction.com 's team at the ICSC New York National Conference, including Joe Cuomo , (above) found the event upbeat and say buyers are looking for retail.

NEW YORK CITY- Joe Cuomo of Auction.com tells us about the importance of retail real estate auctions in the current commercial real estate market at ICSC.

NEW YORK CITY-A source close to the deal tells GlobeSt.com that special servicer LNR Partners has exclusively retained Newmark Grubb as the sales broker on the deal.

NASSAU BAY, TX-The Houston investor acquires the class B building -- as well as the 238,000-square-foot Monaco Park in Denver -- from LNR through Auction.com.

LAS VEGAS-Retail real estate buyers and sellers aren't shying away from the auction platform, says Auction.com co-CEO Paulsen.