NEW YORK CITY—The acquisition of AR Capital's business gives Apollo Global Management entry into a market segment that sees more than 1.2 million retail investors include non-listed REITs and BDCs in their portfolios.

NEW YORK CITY—Nicholas Schorsch and his partners in AR Capital will serve on the AR Global board, which will be chaired by an Apollo representative. William Kahane will serve as interim CEO.

SUMMERVILLE, SC—Gerber Childrenswear's investment in a new distribution facility is “one of the largest industrial deals in Charleston in the past two years,” says the Rockefeller Group's John Petricola.

WASHINGTON, DC—The REIT sector's dividend yields last month and year-to-date have handily beat the S&P 500 and S&P Composite 1500, NAREIT said Thursday.

PHOENIX—As one pillar of its business plan, the net lease REIT plans strategic dispositions of up to $2.2 billion by the end of next year, a process that's already underway.

DALLAS—Universities' adoption of public-private partnerships to finance development has doubled in the past five years. Balfour Beatty's Josh Smith, a panelist at next month's RealShare Student Housing, explains why.

NEW YORK CITY—Known as North Haven Real Estate Fund VIII Global, the fund has already made investments in Europe, Asia and Australia as well as in the US.

WASHINGTON, DC—With Metrostudy's latest projections of construction starts for both single-family and apartment homes down slightly from Q1, the firm's Bradley Hunter explains what's behind the “slight sluggishness.”