MIAMI— New stats are rolling in that make investors smile and developers move perhaps even more quickly to grab land. Get all the details.

LOS ANGELES—The largest retail real estate advisory firm on the East Coast opens its first West Coast office in Santa Barbara, and brings in Mike Hieshima and Philip Kyle to lead the new group.

WASHINGTON, DC—The lapse in the program to backstop terrorism insurance “simply must be reauthorized as soon as possible to mitigate the economic damage” of a lack of coverage, says the Real Estate Roundtable's Jeff DeBoer.

SEATTLE—Touchstone owners are to remain invested as general partners with URGin all current projects.