Before regional malls, grocery-anchored strips and outlet centers, there was street retail. Nearly every city, regardless of size, had a shopping district, maybe just one street or perhaps an entire neighborhood...

The country’s legal marijuana industry more than doubled in size in 2014, to $2.7 billion, and the commercial real estate world is starting to take notice. Reports on the industrial sector attribute extra-strong demand in places such as Denver to...

What it means to be the “best” alternative.

In the last week of January, Starwood Capital closed a deal to buy four student housing properties. And before the week was done, Starwood had bought another portfolio in a second deal—building its portfolio of student housing beds from...