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Amazon would help JBG Smith create a new image for its Crystal City office portfolio.

As commercial real estate professionals, economic development officials and others eagerly await Amazon’s decision about

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The numbers encompass direct loans, credit lines, CMBS loans and other forms of direct investment in the commercial real estate industry.

The rankings reflect total dollar volume financed

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Foster + Partners, the firm behind Apple’s Cupertino office building, will design JPMorgan Chase’s Manhattan headquarters.

(Bloomberg)—JPMorgan Chase & Co. selected Foster + Partners to design the bank’s new Manhattan headquarters, tapping the London-based firm behind Apple’s futuristic

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Jonathan Litt wants the company to explore a sale.

(Bloomberg)—Activist investor Jonathan Litt may put forth a slate of directors for Mack-Cali Realty Corp.’s board because he continues to

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Special considerations in adaptive re-use office projects range from drafting the lease document to projecting operating expenses.

Creative office space is all the rage in the commercial office world, with adaptive re-use offices being a prominent part of

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The U.S. Treasury expects to issue more than $1 trillion in debt in 2018, reports the Wall Street Journal. Sam Zell would not recommend Chicago for Amazon’s HQ2, according to Crain’s Chicago Business. These are among today’s must reads from

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At a stock price of just more than $38 per share, Seritage Growth Properties is still overvalued.

(Bloomberg Opinion)—Investors, it seems, have come to see only the

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Apartment developers took out fewer building permits in September, stymied by rising interest rates and construction costs.

Apartment building developers may finally take a breather in their rush to build new units.

“Starts will begin to slow down soon, translating into more

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A new report found global institutional investors will target real estate allocations of 10.6 percent on average in 2019.

Institutional investors plan to dedicate more of their funds to real

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Heitman LLC paid approximately $1,300 per sq. ft. for the 56,000-sq.-ft. building at 500 Pine Street.

Investor Heitman LLC picked

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