Deductions for carried interest and mortgage interest are just two areas where the House and Senate packages part company with one another.

Current legislation that would broaden the definition of being an accredited investor is currently gaining steam in Congress.

Supply and demand are still heavily weighted in the landlord’s favor and there’s very little speculative construction in the pipeline, so the decreasing medical-office rents the San Diego market saw in Q3 are likely just a temporary stall, Travis Ives, senior director of the healthcare practice group at Cushman & Wakefield, tells GlobeSt.com.

The apartment market led the way among commercial property markets in the third quarter, as robust demand pushed down the national vacancy rate and supported rent growth.

On November 9, 2017, Steadfast Apartment REIT III, Inc. (the “Company”) announced it had appointed Kevin J. Keating as Chief Financial Officer of the Company.

On November 9, 2017, New York REIT, Inc. (“NYRT”) announced a cash liquidating distribution of $2.07 per share to be paid on November 28, 2017 to shareholders of record as of November 20, 2017.

On November 8, 2017, KBS Strategic Opportunity REIT, Inc. (“KBS”), through 11 wholly owned subsidiaries, sold 11 of its properties to various subsidiaries of Keppel-KBS US REIT, a newly formed Singapore real estate investment trust that was listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange.

KBS Real Estate Investment Trust III (“KBS REIT III”), a non-traded real estate investment trust announced November 7 that it has closed on the largest financing facility in KBS’ history.

The Federal Reserve declined to raise interest rates at its policy meeting this week and said the late-summer hurricanes likely will not have much longer-term impact on overall economic activity.

On November 8, 2017, Brian Block, former CFO of American Realty Capital Partners, received a sentence of 18 months in federal prison for overstating the company’s financial results.

Pathway Energy Infrastructure Fund, Inc. announced on November 7, 2017 that it has converted to a continuously offered, closed-end interval fun structure and expanded its investment focus.

The board of directors of Phillips Edison Grocery Center REIT I, Inc. have determined the estimated value per share of its common stock to be $11.00, as of October 5, 2017, representing an 8% increase from the previous estimated value per share of $10.20, as of March 31, 2017.

Commercial property prices have risen steadily since the beginning of the recovery from the Great Financial Crisis (GFC). Prices through September were nearly 25 percent above the level at the end of 2007, according to the value-weighted CoStar Commercial Repeat Sales Index, while prices of multifamily properties were nearly 50 percent above their end-2007 value.

Over Thanksgiving weekend, Black Friday remains the most popular day for shopping.

InvenTrust Properties, Inc. (“InvenTrust” or the “Company”) has received notice on October 30 that Liquidity Partners Trust I, a Delaware statutory trust, filed a Tender Offer Statement on Schedule TO with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) regarding an unsolicited mini-tender offer (the “Offer”) to purchase shares of common stock of the Company.

According to an article by Bruce Kelly in InvestmentNews on November 7, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc. (“FINRA”) on Monday, November 6, barred two former Realty Capital Securities salesmen involved in the 2015 proxy fraud that led to the eventual closing of that firm, and last week suspended a third former Realty Capital salesman for two years.