The Lede

Bloomberg, Jan. 22, 2016--Clark, Patrick After a three-year period of rapid growth, rents are likely to flatten in 2016, according to a new report.

Wall Street Journal, Jan. 22, 2016--Fletcher, Laurence A record amount of money flowed into U.K. commercial property in 2015. For the year, investment totaled £64.3 billion ($91.1 billion), up 4% on the previous year, according to data from property consultancy Lambert Smith Hampton.

Bloomberg, Jan. 21, 2016--Perlberg, Heather Mortgage-REIT executives are uniquely positioned when their firms fall on hard times. Unlike at hedge funds and other firms where managers' pay is tied to performance, most mortgage-REIT executives are compensated based on the size of their publicly traded companies, and receive a percentage of total shareholder equity whether they win or lose.

New York Law Journal, Jan. 20, 2016--Reilly Jr., Richard; Steiner, Jeffrey Beginning in 2014, collateralized loan obligation transactions consisting of underlying pools of commercial real estate mortgage loans re-emerged as a financing alternative for sponsors of platforms that originate CRE loans.

National Real Estate Investor, Jan. 25, 2016--Mellen, Chris These are good times, redefined, brought into high-definition, so to speak, in three areas directly impacting commercial real estate: the nature of opportunity, the oddity of our economy and the growing threat of terrorism.

Reuters, Jan. 25, 2016--Lampert, Allison; Mouallem, Omar Foreign investors are snapping up ski chalets and commercial properties in Canada as a drop in the nation's sagging currency in the past two years means their money buys much more.

National Real Estate Investor, Jan. 21, 2016--Steinberg, Michael; Byrne Denham, Barbara  With some modest improvement in the outlook for wage growth starting to materialize, the outlook for discretionary spending and thus demand for retail space should be brighter in 2016 than at any point in time since before the recession.

The Real Deal (New York), Jan. 26, 2016--Mashayekhi, Rey  Barclays has predicted "turbulence ahead" for U.S. real estate investment trusts in 2016, downgrading the likes of Vornado Realty Trust, General Growth Properties and Rouse Properties and citing headwinds like "rising interest rates" and "geopolitical uncertainty."

Apartment rent appreciation should level off over the next 12 months, slowing to an annual rate of 1.1 percent by December, said Zillow, Seattle.

Commercial loan originations under $5 million grew by 5 percent in third-quarter 2015 and a sizable 8.7 percent year over year, reported Boxwood Means, Stamford, Conn.

It might be a pleasant problem to have, but it's a problem nonetheless.

The flood of capital into multifamily real estate shows no signs of lessening--especially given large private equity funds' recent multi-billion dollar acquisitions--reported Yardi Matrix, Englewood, Colo.

Falling delinquencies and slowing special servicing loan transfers year-over-year contributed to improved performance metrics for commercial mortgage-backed securities, but leverage now approaches the pre-crisis peak, analysts said.