LAS VEGAS—GlobeSt.com chats with Chris Sands, founder of Sands Investment Group, about what REITs and institutional investors will be assessing pertaining to their retail assets in the coming year.

CLIFFSIDE PARK AND PATERSON, NJ—Along the Hudson Palisades in Cliffside Park, 19 units sold for $5.45 million, or $286,842 per unit at 319 Palisade Ave., one of two main north/south thoroughfares in the borough.

IRVINE, CA—The volume of financing for flipped homes grew in Q1 “even as the home flipping rate plateaued compared to a year ago,” says Daren Blomquist at ATTOM Data Solutions.

SEATTLE—The news caused a spike in the department store chain's share prices, which have been down since the beginning of 2017.