NEW YORK CITY—“The underlying strength of the economy is finally starting to emerge,” Cushman & Wakefield's Ken McCarthy says in a report following the release of the latest monthly BLS numbers.

DENVER—The multifamily REIT's first-quarter results were “ahead of plan,” chairman and CEO Terry Considine said Thursday.

BUFFALO—Sovran's CEO, David Rogers, says its marketing and pricing strategies enabled it to maintain high occupancies at its Uncle Bob's Self-Storage properties through the traditionally slow winter months.

UNIONDALE, NY—The locally based lender employed a variety of Fannie Mae DUS programs as well as its own products in providing financing for apartment assets in Texas, Alabama and six other states.

BOSTON—Industry veteran Richard P. Robinson is bringing along the former New England team of Apartment Realty Advisors as IPA adds the flourishing Boston region to its national platform.

NEW YORK CITY—Land prices in the Hudson Yards zoning district have tripled in the past two and a half years, says Massey Knakal's Robert Knakal, who brokered the sale of one of the parcels that could one day hold the nation's tallest building.

BOSTON—Despite first-quarter FFO that came in below expectations, analysts at RBC Capital Markets continue to give Boston Properties an “outperform” rating, while expressing more reservations about Government Income Properties Trust.

PLYMOUTH MEETING, PA—With assets in Memphis, including Trane's facility at 5200 Tradeport, as well as Nashville and Columbus, OH, the acquisition by locally based Exeter was brokered by a Colliers team representing LNR.