According to Jones Lang LaSalle’s 2012 National Commercial Real Estate Outlook, the U.S. commercial real estate market will see slow growth in 2012 with a projected increase in transaction volume of 15 percent to 20 percent. Distribution and ports are expected to lead the recovery in the industrial sector while growth in the hotel sector, though slow, is expected to be driven by buy-side demand from private equity funds.

There are many paths to earning a university degree in real estate development, and a wide variety of disciplines and subjects provide grist for that education mill.

Despite some downward-trending market indicators, the forecast for the commercial real estate sector is decidedly more mixed for the coming year, depending on the market sector, according to Deloitte.

With hotel performance wavering nationwide and new FDIC regulations setting strict capital requirements for lenders, developers are having trouble locating funding for proposed projects.

Bridges are often cited as the poster child for America’s crumbling infrastructure—but bridge conditions are actually improving nationwide, thanks to a federal and state commitment to the problem.

In Utah, business leaders have helped propel the region’s full-speed-ahead investment in transit and connecting infrastructure.

Top-tier owners are actively developing well-vetted strategies designed to take advantage of dislocation in the market. Read about seven crucial, but often overlooked, components of such strategies.

Strategy is your organization’s guide to long-term success. If the recession and uncertainty have clouded your current strategy, consider recasting it both for short-term survival and for long-term sustainment.

Postwar master-planned communities enabled Americans to build their lives around great neighborhoods, schools, and suburban amenities. In the coming years, communities will continue to be comprehensively planned, but implementation will be in smaller increments, experts predict.

Trepp LLC survey showed spreads narrowing a few basis points across all property types in what was a lackluster week in the debt markets. The Cushman & Wakefield Sonnenblick-Goldman Survey for the period ending December 1, 2011, showed spreads for 10-year mortgages unchanged.