Dividend Capital

Group Pays $275 Million for GTA Waterfront Site - Courtesy: JLL.A consortium of developers is paying approximately $275 million to the province of Ontario for a track of land on the Greater Toronto Area's waterfront that is expected to generate up to ... ow.ly/oTLh50gWVrN

Institutional Capital, New Development Driving MOB Investment - The St. Vincent Carmel Women's Center in Indiana is part of a $2.7 billion portfolio acquired by Heitman from Duke Realty last year. Heitman's recent purchase of 17 medical office buildin... ow.ly/qKWd50gV3ff

End of the Line for Toys R Us as Retailer Plans to Close Remaining Stores Totaling About 38M-SF - Beloved by kids and landlords but largely shunned by consumers this past holiday shopping season, Toys R Us officially announced this morning that it was... ow.ly/WXHB50gS15M

Grocery-Anchored Centers Remain Choice of Retail Investors, Despite Growing Competition, Investment Risk - Sales of U.S. grocery anchored shopping centers rose more than 5% in 2017, bucking the trend of declining trading volume across most major types... ow.ly/fBso50gR7cZ

Brookfield Sells 50% Stake in Bay Adelaide - A buyer from the United Kingdom has paid $850 million to acquire a 50 percent stake in the Bay Adelaide Centre in what is the largest commercial real estate deal year to date in 2018, CoStar News can confir... ow.ly/229u50gQcaB

REITs, Construction Industry React to Tariffs, Warn Rising Construction Costs Could Cancel Projects - Higher steel and aluminum prices resulting from proposed tariffs will likely result in higher costs for new projects such as this new office building... ow.ly/W1k750gOqi8

The Amazon Effect: What Would Happen to Apartment Rents if Your City is Picked for HQ2? - If Amazon picks your city for its new co-headquarters, what impact would it have on your local apartment market? CoStar’s quantitative research team applied a ne... ow.ly/Zn5b50gMkHP

Senior Housing Sector Suffering Effects from Recent Supply Glut - Brookdale Guadalupe River Plaza in Kerryville, TX. Credit: Brookdale Senior Living With apologies to The Rolling Stones, the senior housing sector knows that 'Time is on its Side,' but ... ow.ly/RbBc50gLqBZ

Ivanhoé Cambridge Appoints 25-Year Veteran President - Pictured: Nathalie Palladitcheff, the new president of Ivanhoé Cambridge.Ivanhoé Cambridge has a new president, appointing 25-year finance and real estate industry veteran Nathalie Palladitcheff t... ow.ly/CobP50gKu3S

Oxford Ready to Build On Spec - His company has 1.4 million square feet of office space to fill, but the chief executive of Oxford Properties, which just announced plans to proceed with a 60-storey tower in downtown Toronto, doesn't seem too concerned... ow.ly/Qo7M50gJBIY

Prologis Sees More Opportunities Amid Disruption in Global Logisitics Market - Barbara Cambon of the Burnham-Moores Center for Real Estate interviews Prologis CEO Hamid Moghadam during a recent conference in San Diego.Credit: Burnham-Moores... ow.ly/sxPE50gILYo

Quality Care REIT Taking Over HCR ManorCare and its 500 Facilities - Quality Care Properties Inc. (NYSE: QCP) and HCR ManorCare Inc. have reached an agreement for Quality Care to take control over HCR ManorCare, including its skilled nursing, assisted... ow.ly/NFCY50gHAOg

BMO Moving Some Staff to Eaton Centre - Bank of Montreal is opening what it calls an "urban campus" at the Toronto Eaton Centre, leasing 350,000 square feet of space that will feature a four-storey atrium. As first reported by CoStar News, the bank is... ow.ly/hZRO50gGIps

CBRE Predicts Record Investment in 2018 - The end of cap rate compression may be coming, but the executive managing director of CBRE Ltd. in Canada says there are mitigating factors that may slow the trend. "Firstly, there is a limit to how high and h... ow.ly/w5sg50gFP3n

CBRE Snags 48 Transwestern Staffers in Boston - Pictured: John Barry, the last of the three RBJ founding partners to leave Transwestern. Transwestern’s Boston office suffered a big blow today, as CBRE announced it had hired 48 members of the Transwest... ow.ly/QRFf50gEVhG

KBS Launches $1 Billion Online Real Estate Fund Offering - The Offices at Greenhouse in Houston is one of four office properties owned by the new KBS fund Nontraded REIT KBS Growth & Income REIT, which closed its public offering in June 2017 after rai... ow.ly/hClq50gE3ba

Chinese Govt. Takes Control Over U.S. Hotel Investor Anbang Insurance - Waldorf-Astoria, New York China's Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC) issued a statement saying it had taken control over Anbang Insurance Group Co. this morning possibly putti... ow.ly/rTkk50gC38Q

Declining Occupancy, Rent Growth Spreading to Top Tier of Best-Located US Retail Properties - The largest investment sale transactions of the fourth quarter included Albertsons' $721 million sale-leaseback of 71 properties across 12 states, including ... ow.ly/Dg2850gBaqm

Slate Ready to Flip Cominar Assets - Pictured: 55 University Ave. in downtown Toronto.The ink hasn't dried on one of 2017's largest real estate deals, but sources indicate Slate Acquisitions Inc. is in the process of flipping some of the $1.14 billion... ow.ly/rupH50gAi3L

Albertsons Buying Rite Aid in Latest Deal Remaking U.S. Retail and Healthcare Industries - Albertsons Cos., one of the nation's largest grocery retailers, and drugstore chain Rite Aid Corp. (NYSE:RAD) announced a definitive merger agreement under whic... ow.ly/d1Wi50gzq5M