NEW YORK CITY-Some 200 representatives of the legal and real estate communities are gathering at the Roosevelt Hotel today to track the changing dynamics between the two sectors. One point is clear: demands made by law-firm tenants have escalated in recent years. The event, LegalSpace, is being co-sponsored by Real Estate Media and ALM.

Thirty percent of Australian listed property-trust holdings are now in the US.

Thirty percent of Australian listed property-trust holdings are now in the US.

NEW YORK CITY-The newly minted joint venture will set up shop in Shanghai and Beijing with the intent of developing and buying "high-quality" assets. A major focus will be residential, given the expansion of the Chinese middle class.

NEW YORK CITY-The newly minted joint venture will set up shop in Shanghai and Beijing with the intent of developing and buying "high-quality" assets. A major focus will be residential, given the expansion of the Chinese middle class.

I can't imagine how some of these numbers work with the leverage I'm seeing.

NEW YORK CITY-It's going to be real estate for real estate's sake once again as investors learn to rely less on cap-rate compression and more on sound fundamentals. But the folks of Torto Wheaton see no dramatic change resulting from the shifting dynamics of interest and cap rates.

Some 60% of commercial real estate professionals don't want to be compensated by commission.