Regardless of your investment or operating quadrant—public or private real estate equity or debt—or property sector (multifamily, office, industrial, retail, or hospitality), 4Q 2010 turned out to be pretty okay. Read what Stephen R. Blank, ULI’s Senior Resident Fellow, Finance, writes about REITs, CMBS, private real estate equity capital markets, and private debt real estate capital markets.

It is now 2011 and social media no longer remains on the fringes of the professional world. Help ULI develop and share feedback on your strategies for use of social media by letting us know how you are using, and will be using social media in our industry or how your employer is using, and will be using it. Take our brief 5-question survey. We will publish the results here on Urban Land.

A land-based approach to solving America’s economic crisis would enable municipalities to acquire vacant properties to develop into parks and green space.