NEW YORK CITY—“We are seeing improvements in segments including housing, construction, auto sales and consumer spending, all of which is helping produce broad-based job growth,” says Colliers International's Cynthia Foster.

NEW YORK CITY—The establishment of S&P Dow Jones' Real Estate Select Sector and Financial Services Select Sector indices precedes the implementation of a real estate industry group within the GICS universe next year.

CHICAGO—“People make the brand come alive, and I think that's a real differentiator compared to our competition,” Cushman & Wakefield's global president, Tod Lickerman, tells GlobeSt.com.

STAMFORD, CT—Among the first institutional investors to enter the single-family rental business, "we are very pleased with the outcome,” says Carl R. Kuehner III, chairman and CEO of Building and Land Technology.

LOS ANGELES—“It's not about size, it's about scale advantage,” Bill Concannon, CEO, Global Workplace Solutions, tells GlobeSt.com. He and COO John Murphy explain why the integration is a good fit.

NEW YORK CITY—Commenting on changes that have come to the sector since GlobeSt.com launched in 2000, advisory board member Faith Hope Consolo says we've seen many retailers “improve their service and embrace technology.”

SANTA BARBARA, CA—Earlier projections of 2015 rent growth now look “almost too conservative,” according to Yardi Matrix researchers. Yet they raise a few questions about that growth's sustainability.

LOS ANGELES—Consumer demand should keep the high-tech industry strong in the years ahead and support office markets in leading tech cities, says CBRE's Colin Yauskochi.