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ICSC Special Report: 2013 Outlook for Retail Real Estate Appears Promising, if Uneven

What will 2013 bring for the retail real estate market?

Economy Watch Weekly: Mostly Good News, if You Ignore the Fiscal Cliff– No Real News about It Anyway

CPE’s economic analyst, Dees Stribling, gives his update for the week ending Nov. 30.

ICSC Special Report: Executives Welcome Internet as Friend, Not Foe, to Brick & Mortar Retail

As hundreds of owners, retailers and brokers from around the country hustled to close deals on the final day of the International Council of Shopping Centers’ annual fall conference in New York City, retail real estate leaders were weighing in on the broader challenges and opportunities facing the industry.

Special Report: Finding a Framework for Future Global Cities

By 2030 it is likely that 60 percent of the world’s population will be living in an urban setting.

American Campus Closes on Student Housing Portfolio Purchase for $863M

American Campus Communities of Austin, Texas, has closed on its $863 million purchase of a 19-property, 12,049-bed student housing portfolio from affiliates of Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors, of Los Angeles and Armonk, N.Y.

JV Plans $136M Redevelopment Project in Toronto’s Downtown West

RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust, Allied Properties Real Estate Investment Trust and Diamond Corp. have entered into an agreement to purchase the Globe & Mail Lands in Toronto for $136 million. The transaction is expected to close in mid-December 2012.

Mesirow Financial Acquires 302-Unit Nashville M-F Complex for $59M

Mesirow Financial, a Chicago-based property investment firm, purchased Eleven North, a Class AA, institutionally owned multi-family complex in Nashville for $59 million.

Economy Watch: Growth at “Measured Pace,” Says Fed; New Home Sales Sink Slightly

The Federal Reserve stated that economic activity is expanding at a “measured pace.” And new home sales took a small monthly dip, down 0.3 percent.

Gray Tops Executive of the Year Awards — Again

Jonathan Gray’s continued acquisition pace once again led the CPE 100 to vote him CPE’s Executive of the Year in 2012.