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Capital Impact Partners today announced the launch of Age Strong™, an innovative social investment initiative that will lend a total of $70 million to enterprises that provide critical services and programs for struggling adults who are 50-plus. This initiative, in partnership with AARP Foundation and Calvert Foundation, aims to support enterprises and projects that create affordable homes, increase access to healthy foods, improve financial security, and offer more community-oriented models of care

A vast majority of Americans believe that buying a home is a solid financial decision, and most believe they could sell their home for at least its initial purchase price, according to a new survey from the National Association of Realtors®. The 2015 National Housing Pulse Survey also found that a preponderance of Americans think that now is a good time to buy a home.

A Georgia real estate investor pleaded guilty today for his role in conspiracies to rig bids and commit mail fraud at public real estate foreclosure auctions in Fulton and DeKalb counties, Georgia. Morris Podber admitted that he conspired with others not to bid against one another at public real estate foreclosure auctions on selected properties.

In today’s complicated real estate market, rarely can one party bring all the resources needed to complete an ambitious real estate project. Whether it be capital, know-how or a below-market purchase option on a buildable lot in the East End, developers need partners! While partnerships present a great opportunity, they also have unique legal, tax and operating attributes that can ruin your longest friendship if not handled properly.

A Georgia real estate investor pleaded guilty today for his role in conspiracies to rig bids and commit mail fraud at public real estate foreclosure auctions in Fulton and DeKalb counties, Georgia.

As climate change poses greater financial risks to real estate in the form of near-term extreme weather events and longer-term impacts like sea-level rise, developers and owners are increasingly investing in new infrastructure and technologies, innovative design and construction methods as well as other resiliency strategies to not only protect their properties, but to create value for their developments, according to Returns on Resilience: The Business Case, released today by the Urban Land Institute (ULI)

As climate change poses greater financial risks to real estate in the form of near-term extreme weather events and longer-term impacts like sea-level rise, developers and owners are increasingly investing in new infrastructure and technologies, innovative design and construction methods as well as other resiliency strategies to not only protect their properties, but to create value for their developments, according to Returns on Resilience: The Business Case, released today by the Urban Land Institute (ULI)

“The Alliance to Save Energy is proud to announce that its innovative CarbonCount™ methodology is now fully operational, having been used to certify the carbon reductions of a $118.6 million “green” bonds offering completed today by Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital, Inc. (NYSE: HASI). With this step, CarbonCount™ transitions from a heralded concept to a real-world tool that provides investors with a quantitative measure of projected carbon impacts for each investment dollar.

The Boulder Group’s Research Department has released a new research report providing comprehensive numbers and analysis of the 3rd quarter activity in the National Net Lease Market.

Hanley Investment Group, a nationally-recognized boutique real estate brokerage and advisory firm specializing in retail property sales, has completed the $15.2 million sale of a newly-built 45,000-square-foot, single-tenant, fee simple retail investment occupied by LA Fitness in Riverside, California.

CBRE Executive Vice Presidents Philip D. Voorhees and Todd Goodman announced today their National Retail Investment Group – West (NRIG-West) team, together with Mike Moser of Retail Insite, completed the sale of Scripps Ranch Marketplace Phase II, a 28,700-square-foot shopping center in San Diego, Calif. The property is shadow anchored by a Vons and CVS/pharmacy (both were not part of the sale), along with Chase, Verizon, Which Wich and a synergistic line-up of local retail favorites. The sale price was $20.45 million, representing a 5.0% cap rate

If you are planning on selling your home it's important that you do what you can to increase its value. Not only will it make your home sell faster, and look better, but it will also help you to get more money in your pocket. Who doesn't want to get more money out of their home? Your home was an investment from the start, and you should be taking great care of your investments.

The Urban Land Institute (ULI) Greenprint Center for Building Performance, a worldwide alliance of leading real estate owners, investors and financial institutions committed to improving energy efficiency and reducing carbon emissions across the global property industry, has announced the addition of Solaria Corporation and Stem, Inc. as its newest innovation partners.

The Boulder Group, a net leased investment brokerage firm, has completed the sale of a newly constructed single tenant net leased O’Reilly Auto Parts store located at 5618 Treaschwig Road in Spring, Texas for $1,383,964.

As part of the program for the 2015 NMHC Board of Directors and Advisory Committee meeting, six young multifamily investment sales professionals discussed the best investment opportunities in their respective geographic markets, which buyers and sources of capital are succeeding in allocating capital and what innovation their industry may bring to the market.

Homeowners continue to prioritize investing in outdoor living spaces and there has been a significant surge in popularity in adding technology and systems that can help automate energy consumption .These findings are from the American Institute of Architects’ (AIA) Home Design Trends Survey covering activity during the second quarter of 2015 that focused on emerging home features: systems, technologies and special function rooms in the home.

MG Properties Group, a private San Diego-based real estate investor and operator, has announced the acquisition of two multifamily properties encompassing 722 units in the largest multihousing bulk transaction in the history of Reno, Nevada.

Hanley Investment Group, a nationally-recognized real estate brokerage and advisory firm specializing in retail property sales, announced today that in separate transactions the company negotiated the sale of two shopping centers owned by Cincinnati, Ohio-based institutional investment firm Phillips Edison & Company.

In an effort to open investment and financial innovation – and to focus that capability on historically underserved sectors of the solar economy – the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) today launched the SEIA Finance Initiative

Global real estate investment and services firm Kennedy Wilson (NYSE: KW) today announced that the company will pay a dividend of $0.12 per share to common shareholders of record as of September 30, 2015 with a payment date of October 8, 2015. The quarterly payment equates to an annual dividend of $0.48 per common share.