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Michael Rodriguez is the leader of market research and insights at CBRE Mid-Atlantic and visiting research director at Smart Growth America.

Following rumors about a venture capital round that would put Uber’s valuation at more than $10 billion, ULI senior visiting fellow Gabe Klein was on Bloomberg TV’s Street Smart to talk about Uber, car-free households, and other startups.

With interest rates up over 100 basis points since May 1, it may be time for a stress test aimed at assessing the sensitivity of your portfolio to recent and expected future rate increases. You can be sure your lender is already doing one.

During the past month, spreads reported by Trepp LLC remained “range-bound” at an average spread of 207 basis points over 10-year Treasuries.

While the Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) region has been highly successful in drawing corporate relocations to the area, city leaders, speaking at a ULI North Texas event, said that the main weakness in Amazon’s eye for the e-commerce giant’s second headquarters (HQ2) was an insufficient amount of existing and available talent.

Michael Spotts, a senior visiting research fellow at ULI’s Terwiliger Center for Housing and head of Neighborhood Fundamentals, recently appeared on the Talking Headways podcast. Spotts chats with us about takeaways from the Shaw Symposium on Urban Community Issues, the definition of infrastructure, and the importance of taking a systems approach to important interconnected topics like transportation, education, and health care.

Following rumors about a venture capital round that would put Uber’s valuation at more than $10 billion, ULI senior visiting fellow Gabe Klein was on Bloomberg TV’s Street Smart to talk about Uber, car-free households, and other startups.

Michael A. Spotts is a visiting research fellow with the ULI Terwilliger Center for Housing. He has over a decade of experience conducting applied policy research activities focused on housing affordability and community development.

Encouraging economic news released in August heightened the potential that the Fed will increase interest rates. But this good news proved to be a bit too positive, as it may have contributed to a withdrawal in the real estate investment trust sector. Plus, interest rate survey data from Trepp.

Despite the current volatility and concerns about financing, real estate will continue to be a good investment in the long term, says Richard A. Kessler, chief operating officer of Benenson Capital Partners LLC. Kessler, also chairman of ULI New York, offers readers advice about property type, tenants, geography and the proper approach for investing, developing and managing.