Adam Hooper, CEO of RealCrowd.com, talks with National Real Estate Investor Group Publisher Rich Santos at ICSC RECon 2014 about the benefits of crowdfunding for both operators and investors. Since its launch in September 2013, RealCrowd has done ...

Mike Muir, vice president of North American Development and Best Western International, talks with National Real Estate Investor Group Publisher Rich Santos at ICSC RECon 2014 about Best Western Plus. The newly launched brand is building new...

The retail industry has endured five hard years or recovery since the Financial Crisis, but a retail resurgence is well underway with consumer spending expected to rise by 4 percent this year. Investment capital is now seeking ways back into the...

Designer goods have always held a prominent place on the richest streets in America. On the Las Vegas strip at the ICSC conference, thousands of high street retailers are gathering to determine the best strategies to serve the shopping elite...

In spite of the fact that values on multifamily assets have gotten “competitive” in recent years, Phoenix Realty Group has set the goal of completing $300 million in new acquisitions in 2014. According to the firm’s co-founder...

The commercial real estate market’s momentum shows no signs of slowing and the forecast for the lending environment is optimistic. Industry experts at the Mortgage Banker’s Associations’ (MBA) Commercial Real Estate Finance (CREF...

‎KBA Lease Services Inc.'s Visual Lease helps companies of all sizes "keep their arms around their leases," says Marc Betesh, the company's president and founder. Betesh, who is also the entrepreneur who invented the lease...

Retail owners and tenants have lagged behind other property sectors in sustainability because benchmarking comparisons with competitors have been nonexistant. But ICSC's new Property Efficiency Scorecard is changing all that by allowing "...

Benchmarking in retail is more complicated than for other property types, but just as worthwhile, says Rudy Milian, senior staff vice president, director of best practices and publisher with ICSC. Milian helped launch ICSC's new Property...

For retail owners and tenants, sustainability has changed from a "razzle dazzle" idea to a "practical decision," says Karla Zens, director of business development for Capital Pacific Real Estate Brokerage Co. in San Francisco...