CARLSBAD, CA—The Carlsbad and surrounding markets are rolling into the new year with increasing multifamily and residential property values, but can they be sustained in 2016? Lee & Associates' Blair Havens weighs in on the subject <b>EXCLUSIVELY</b> with GlobeSt.com.

FORT WORTH--Trademark Property Co., the Fort Worth-based retail and mixed-use development, investment, and third-party services firm, has announced that Phil Pearson has joined the firm as vice president of leasing. A 30-year industry veteran, Pearson will help manage multiple leasing projects for Trademark.

EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ—In one of its best years in more than a decade, New Jersey's roaring demand for industrial space continued vacuuming availability out of the market in 2015, according to Jones Lang LaSalle's analysis of leasing trends.

PHILADELPHIA, PA—Iselin-based Meridian Capital Group negotiated an $88 million permanent loan to refinance the leasehold interest in Dranoff Properties' The Left Bank mixed-use property in Philadelphia, PA.