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Best Buy plans to start selling everything from fitness machines to health-monitoring services for seniors.

(Bloomberg) --Best Buy Co. is well-known for bringing computers and other gadgets back

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The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Index of property values increased by 2 percent from a year earlier in July.

(Bloomberg)—Home-price gains in 20 U.S. cities decelerated in

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Even as the overall volume of cross-border investment in U.S. real estate slows down, apartment properties remain popular with foreign buyers.

Foreign investors continue to spend money on apartment properties in the U.S., even while they

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Going into smaller markets in search of yield, industrial investors are starting to cause cap rate compression in those areas.

Investors don't like the high pricing and low cap rates

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston President Eric Rosengren pointed out that co-working start-ups might be a potential financial risk in CRE.

(Bloomberg)—The rise of co-working spaces like WeWork may be creating new financial-stability risks, according to Federal Reserve Bank

Real estate mogul Phil Ruffin might buy the casino.

(Bloomberg)—MGM Resorts International, the largest casino operator on the Las Vegas Strip, is in talks to sell its Circus Circus property there to

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A more stable outlook for lower interest rates is pushing some borrowers off the fence on bridge loans.

The competitive bridge lending space shows no signs

WeWork board to discuss pushing out Adam Neumann as CEO, reports the Wall Street Journal. U.S.-China trade negotiations continue despite rough patch, according to The New York Times. These are among today's must reads from around the commercial real estate industry.

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Vacant big boxes can be ideal for conversion to self-storage facilities.

Self-storage developers are fighting over empty big-box stores.

“Retail stores provide excellent opportunities for self-storage developers,” says Tara Jeffcoat, senior

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Household and non-profit group net worth increased by 1.6 percent from the first quarter.

U.S. household wealth kept rising in the second quarter, though at a slower pace than at the

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