NEW YORK CITY—The agreement in principle will bring together teams with extensive experience in special situations and sector-specific knowledge of credit and global real estate.

NEW YORK CITY—A Keefe, Bruyette & Woods report also sees the GSEs playing a smaller role in mortgage finance generally, and mREITs helping to pick up the slack.

NEW YORK CITY—Olshan's relocation to the Paramount Group's 1325 Ave. of the Americas will implement “a concept that many law firms are exploring but not executing,” says DTZ's Robert Yaffa.

WASHINGTON, DC—Sluggish economic growth and a trend toward fitting more employees into existing space are keeping demand from “meaningful acceleration,” says Lawrence Yun at the National Association of Realtors.

CALABASAS, CA—Cap rates have sunk to all-time lows across a number of single-tenant sectors, says Marcus & Millichap, which doesn't see the rates rising in the near term.

LOS ANGELES—The cap rate spreads between prime and major markets have rarely been as wide as they are today for these retail properties, says Spencer Levy at CBRE.

NEW YORK CITY—More than 97% of the CMBS loans backed by Manhattan properties will see smooth sailing with 2016 and 20167 maturities. For other metro areas, it will be a different story.

WASHINGTON, DC—Lawrence Yun, chief economist at the National Association of Realtors, pins the monthly decline in existing-home sales to “lagging supply relative to demand and the upward pressure it's putting on prices.”