Hotel firm Lodgian Inc. has a new lease on life after a $270M cash infusion from Lone Star Funds.

Cassidy Turley was launched by former member firms with Colliers International who chose to go a separate path once Colliers merged with FirstService.

On Thursday, the U.S. Senate re-upped Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke — but it wasn’t a hugely wholesale endorsement.

Though Pres. Obama did not dwell on CRE in his State of the Union address, he did speak a great deal about credit and jobs — the industry’s lifeblood.

The contract expands RiverRock’s presence in the industrial sector as well as its dealings with institutional clients.

Morgan Stanley has given a $110M boost to Chicago-based Low Income Tax Credit syndicator National Equity Funds Inc. in order to inject necessary funding into low-income multifamily projects across the nation.

Consumers less pessimistic, but Case-Shiller indices show home prices down in 16 of the 20 major markets covered. Also, consolidation may be a wave of the CRE future.

The firm’s January Global Market Perspective contends that we have reached or are near the bottom — but that a slow recovery is at hand.

The combined companies hope to offer a unique turnkey solution for owners and developers of data centers.

Some badly shaken markets are going from very bad to less bad, bolstering the idea that residential real estate has hit bottom. However, banks are still being shut down — perhaps even at last year’s pace.