Given Seattle’s strong hospitality market and residential development community along with WhyHotel’s relationship with Avalon Bay, it made sense to open its next location in Seattle.

The strong investment activity in Mesa last quarter will likely be the catalyst for new development.

The 360,000-square-foot headquarters campus, Santana West, is developer Federal Realty’s biggest expansion at the iconic Santana Row mixed-use live-work-play property since its opening in 2002.

The GSEs have not made many changes to their guides this year. Here are a few points that may have slipped under your radar.