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.