NEW YORK CITY—There's "a significant opportunity to enhance the brand, merchandise offering and price-value combination to make The Fresh Market a primary destination for food shoppers," says Apollo's Andrew S. Jhawar.

BETHESDA, MD—Marriott said Monday it had granted Starwood Hotels & Resorts a waiver to consider a counter-offer from Anbang Insurance to buy Starwood for $76 per share.

NEW YORK CITY—Based on apartment operators' recent full-year guidance, Barclays says it expects fewer quarterly earnings reports this year to beat consensus estimates.

BEIJING—Chinese investors including Anbang Insurance have been stepping up their involvement in the US hotel sector, spending $6.5 billion in the first three quarters of 2015, according to CBRE.

LOS ANGELES—The lending environment is currently robust, "and that robust environment is part of what contributes to the risk," iBorrow LP's Harlan Peltz tells GlobeSt.com.

CALABASAS, CA—"While the pace of growth in market sales has slowed, Marcus & Millichap remains poised to continue to grow market share," says senior EVP Hessam Nadji.

IRVINE, CA—CEO Tim Morse says the new platforms combine "the familiarity of traditional real estate transactions with the transparency, efficiency and ease that the Internet has brought to other market sectors."

LOS ANGELES—Thanks to "the relative strength and stability of the US economy and good property fundamentals," CBRE's Brian McAuliffe anticipates increased investment domestically in 2016.