Capital Markets

The Freddie Mac program provides funding for affordable housing properties that previously would not have received the same type of financing due to the smaller loan size, and also speeds up underwriting time.

Reportedly the first public REIT in the controlled-temperature space, Americold Realty Trust could be valued at up to $4 billion, Seeking Alpha reported in December.

La Quinta's owned lodging properties will be spun off into a publicly traded REIT to be led by its current CEO, Keith Cline.

Many developers still had a great 2017, and now look to 2018 with confidence.

“This is also about creating the model and then pushing that out to our developers with which we do business across the US.”

The market is trying to find a new normal and suggests cautious optimism for 2018, according to Cushman & Wakefield's year-end retail and capital markets report.

At this week's NMHC Annual Meeting, Berkadia's Ernie Katai heard repeatedly that “there is just a need to continue to get capital out,” he tells GlobeSt.com.

Called Enhanced Resident Services, the product encourages property owners to provide services that improve tenants' health and wellbeing.