NEW YORK CITY—Leaders of the industry’s top lodging firms, speaking Monday morning at the NYU Hospitality Conference, profess that the global economic crisis hasn’t made them blink. Not yet, anyway.

Competition is its own incentive. That’s just one of the messages the association has for Capitol Hill.

NEW YORK CITY--It could be as early as next week that some $1.5 billion in CMBS will be on the block, Bloomberg reports. The sale will be backed by some 175 assets around the country.

NEW YORK CITY-Coldwell Banker Commercial president and COO Fred Schmidt chats with GlobeSt.com’s John Salustri about the upper-level defections the industry is seeing and how it helps CBC’s market presence.

LOS ANGELES-Together with Stan Ross, Leventhal built Kenneth Leventhal & Co. into the premier real estate accounting firm of its day. They merged their practice into Ernst & Young in 1995. Leventhal was 91 when he died.

DALLAS—Special Servicers are going to get into note sales in a big way in 2012. Interviews and panel discussions from RealShare Distressed Assets reveal some secrets.

DALLAS—The uninformed may get lost in the red tape, but for savvy buyers, there’s gold—and growth—in buying loans. RealShare Distressed Assets Panelists go on the record with their thoughts on the market.

This really isn’t a blog about energy efficiency. It’s more a rant against the apparent need of government to insinuate itself into the workings of the private sector.