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The glare of city lights dims the stars for urban dwellers around the world, but a New York University program is borrowing an idea from astronomy to see its hometown in a new way.

By Peter Hobbs The strong momentum over recent quarters suggests that 2014 will be another stellar year for real estate, the fifth consecutive year of above- average performance since the financial crisis. Although there tends to be a delay before most national markets report their year-end performance, the early results from the U.K., the U.S. and, particularly, Ireland confirm continued strong performance. The results for Ireland, at 40 percent for the year as a whole, are staggering, and represent the best-ever annual performance since the series began 30 years ago. Despite this strong performance, concerns are increasingly being raised over…

Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex had a very good decade in retail.

Despite growing worldwide concern about the impact of climate change, real estate investors are apparently still more likely to have policies in place to address other kinds of hazards. According to the 2014 Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark survey, environmental hazards are most likely to be the subject of a dedicated assessment. In Europe, for example, 83 percent of respondents report a policy of reviewing environmental hazards for existing assets. Regulatory issues, too, command attention; assessing potential risks is a policy for 85 percent of survey participants from Australia/New Zealand, 82 percent from Asia and 75 percent based in Europe, plus…