NEW YORK CITY—RCS Capital's Michael Weil will head up the new platform, which will integrate Trupoly Inc., a locally based investor relationship management portal.

NEW YORK CITY—The pending acquisition of Van Wagner Communications' outdoor advertising businesses will “contribute significantly to our REIT operations, driving increased shareholder value,” says CBS Outdoor's CEO, Jeremy Male.

LOS ANGELES—Greater flexibility and choice creates higher levels of employee satisfaction, says a CBRE report, which predicts that “these types of strategies will become the standard by the time many current office leases expire.”

NEW YORK CITY—Although industrial has experienced the strongest improved prospects year-to-date of any property sector, Integra Realty Resources predicts that we'll be seeing increases across all five of the major food groups.

REDMOND, WA—Domestically, staff cuts will occur in San Diego and near the company's headquarters here, with the Puget Sound downsizing accounting for about 1,350 of its 43,000 local employees.

NEW YORK CITY—“As more of our assets under management have seasoned, we've been increasingly active in harvesting the value we've created over several years,” CEO Stephen A. Schwarzman said Thursday.

NEW YORK CITY—We're beginning to see businesses becoming “more focused on the top line than on cost cutting” and on hiring for future growth, Cushman & Wakefield's Ken McCarthy tells GlobeSt.com.

LOS ANGELES—The <i>Wall Street Journal</i> quoted Kevin Mallory, global head of CBRE's lodging arm, as saying his company was “extremely bullish on the hotel sector,” while PKF's R. Mark Woodworth said all 200 employees would join CBRE.