CHICAGO—The general feeling expressed at today's BMO Capital Markets conference here was that the real estate market now has some built-in safeguards that will prevent a return to the overbuilding seen in 2007.

DALLAS--Acquire Real Estate, a real estate crowd investing platform, recently closed its crowd investing fund for the DoubleTree by Hilton DFW Airport North, a 282-room, eight-story hotel located adjacent to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.

HOUSTON--Moviehouse & Eatery, the Austin-based dine-in theater chain, is planning its first location in the Houston market.

CHICAGO—Richard Baker of HBC says that says that online shopping, far from threatening bricks-and-mortar stores, is the best thing to happen to the business.