The market continues to be abuzz about the potential Simon/General Growth transaction. It's been rumored for a while that Simon might want to bring private equity firm the Blackstone Group into its bid to help finance the deal. Now Bloomberg...

Multiple newspaper reports, including this one from The Daily News, claim Walmart is once again trying to bring a store to New York City. The proposed store would likely go into the Gateway II shopping center in Brooklyn, a development that has...

This comes via Deal Junkie. It's a video of an interesting panel discussion on reviving the commercial real estate market. ...

Hard times call for innovation. In an effort to unload its excess real estate, Sears Holdings Corp. has reportedly launched a Web site dedicated to selling its closed stores. For this and other stories about retail and retail real estate, follow...

Simon and General Growth are talking and Simon sent a letter earlier today. Now Bruce Berkowitz has chimed in again. ...

Simon Property Group put out a release last night and another this morning. As we know, Simon execs are meeting with General Growth's decision makers today. ...

Activity is heating up again on the Simon/General Growth Properties front, as the industry looks into Simon's revised plan for General Growth's reorganization. Meanwhile, the reporters at The Boston Globe do an inspired bit of freakonomics in...

Last week, John Reeder, a Senior Advisor at Sperry Van Ness, launched a new blog, Marketwi.se. It includes insights from Reeder as well as Chris Rodriguez, founder and president of Pacific Commercial Investments Inc. ...

After months of will they/won't they speculation on whether luxury department store chain Barneys New York will be forced to file for bankruptcy protection, it appears the retailer may be turning a corner. This week, The New York Post ran a story...

Industry insiders have known about it for a while, but this week the Royal Bank of Scotland revealed the exact details of its multi-borrower CMBS deal, the first of its kind since 2007. Meanwhile, in the wake of strong same-store sales growth in...