MIAMI—Talk about a dramatic distressed commercial estate turnaround. Less than 90 days after buying Royal University Plaza, one joint venture did this.

NEW YORK CITY—The Greenwich Village-based university received permission to go forward with its $6 billion plan from New York State's highest court, which found community resistance unfounded.

NEW YORK CITY—For the July 2015 Nelson Report, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Mike Slattery, the Senior Vice President of REBNY, to discuss the New York City Landmarks Law.

HOUSTON—While office in primary markets is at a premium, have secondary markets benefited as well? That was the question at the first session of the second day at NAIOP's O.CON.