Alan Billingsley, San Francisco-based director for RREEF, talks with GlobeSt.com's Paul Bubny, about the outlook for rent growth in terms of geographic markets and specific sectors.

NEW YORK CITY-Honorees at Monday evening’s Most Ingenious Deal Awards included the CBRE duo of Stacom and Shanahan for completing a transaction that took five years.

NEW YORK CITY-WilmerHale’s 210,000-square-foot deal at 7 WTC is intended to eliminate the ‘split incentive’ obstacle landlords face in making energy retrofits.

NEW YORK CITY-FelCor’s $140-million buy of two Morgans properties typifies an environment where hotel is no longer ‘a four-letter word,’ says LW’s Lesser.

NEW YORK CITY-The private equity giant says the fund will provide ‘urgently needed debt capital to the commercial real estate industry as it begins its recovery.’

MELVILLE, NY-The quick-service Italian food chain, with more than 1,000 locations worldwide, cites a decline in mall traffic among its financial woes.

NEW YORK CITY-Corigin CEO Freedman tells GlobeSt.com there’s a market for financing to get stalled, smaller projects back on track for completion.

NEW YORK CITY-NYSE Euronext says it’s weighing the counter-offer; Deutsche Boerse is standing by its $9.5-billion bid to merge the two exchanges.