Research Center

What’s Selling

(top 10 commercial sales recorded in August 2015)

Softer Suburbs?

National cap rate performance based on properties and portfolios of $2.5 million and greater

Rouse’s California Cravings Grow with $170M Asset

Rouse Properties has added the 1.1 million-square-foot Westfield Carlsbad to its portfolio and renamed it The Shoppes at Carlsbad.

LaSalle Hotel Properties Closes Sizeable Unsecured Term Loan

LaSalle Hotel Properties has closed on a senior unsecured term loan in the amount of $555 million.

Storing Up Value

REIT industry earnings multiple (SNL U.S. REIT Index Price/LTM FFO [x])

Industrial Increase

(CMBS delinquencies by property type; $ in billions)

Wanted: West Coast Space

(U.S. retail market conditions*)

Healthy Picture

(employed and unemployed persons by occupation; not seasonally adjusted; numbers in thousands)

Slow Summer

Value of manufacturers’ new orders; not seasonally adjusted; $ in millions

KBS REIT III Adds Some Glam to San Francisco Building

KBS Real Estate Investment Trust III has given its waterfront San Francisco office building a makeover.