Here's a look at the trends, announcements and deals you may have missed in Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Oklahoma and Arkansas.

Q4's slight vacancy rise stems from “an increase of supply and a slight loosening in the tightness of the market as we have closed in on the previous cyclical low,” says Spencer Levy at CBRE.

Hugo Machin, co-head of Global Real Estate Securities at Schroders, global asset manager with $577 billion in assets under management, sounds off.