NEWPORT BEACH, CA—Among major property types, only the self-storage sector has enjoyed double-digit year-over-year price appreciation recently, says Green Street Advisors. That's in contrast to the gains seen across the board in recent years.

NEW YORK CITY—Ahead of this year's REIT Week conference, Fitch Ratings sees continued liquidity challenges for the sector, although spreads have fully recovered from their February peaks.

NEW YORK CITY—In this second of GlobeSt.com's series on web-based office leasing platforms, Justin Lee of The Square Foot explains how the company's founders adapted the residential sector's technological edge to the commercial sphere.

LOS ANGELES—Helping commercial real estate in general to benefit from that ripple effect has been the industry's “very disciplined” approach to new development, Marcus & Millichap CEO Hessam Nadji told a CNBC audience recently.

NEW YORK CITY and LOS ANGELES—The merger of equals among the three companies occurs just weeks after they confirmed tri-party discussions about a deal for Colony Capital to acquire NorthStar Asset Management, which manages NorthStar Realty Finance through an affiliate.

NEW YORK CITY--"There are significantly greater peak-to-trough changes over the course of the business cycle in certain sectors than others," says Fitch Ratings' Steven Marks. The ratings agency has analyzed the link between GDP, unemployment and NOI for each property type.

DALLAS—The 1,396-key portfolio includes three properties in the resort community of Lake Buena Vista, FL; it's "a significant first step" in selling the REIT's non-core assets, says CEO Monty Bennett.

NEW YORK CITY—However, the CMBS delinquency rate remains 599 basis points lower than the all-time high set in the summer of 2012, according to Trepp data.