With a growing number of high-profile Web sites such as those belonging to Sony, Citibank and even the CIA becoming victims to hacker attacks, there has never been a better time to re-evaluate the passwords you use for your online accounts. Peter Boritz vlogs on CPE’s From the Inside.

Closely mirroring trends in the economy at large, median compensation for C-level executives at the country’s largest REITs saw a gradual push upward during 2010.

Phoenix Packaging Operations L.L.C. took the entire manufacturing and distribution facility at 464 E. Chilton Drive in the Arizona city of Chandler.

Private equity real estate group Tryko Partners has purchased Loch Raven Village, a 495-unit rental community in the city’s Towson neighborhood. Loch Raven is one of Maryland’s largest residential developments.

NorthMarq Capital CEO Eduardo Padilla mulls the GSEs’ performance and future.

The acquisition of Countrywide Financial Corp. has been giving banking giant Bank of America Corp. painful indigestion for some time now–arguably since the ink on the 2008 deal was barely dry–and now BofA has said it will pay $8.5 billion to aggrieved mortgage-backed bondholders who have demanded refunds.

While regulators and politicians debate the future of the GSEs, they are losing key talent, warns Eduardo Padilla on CPE’s From the Inside experts blog.

Just three weeks after closing its $43.1 million acquisition of the former Nortel Networks Inc. Campus in Richardson, Texas, Pillar Commercial has orchestrated two lease agreements that increase the telecommunication company’s occupancy from 200,000 square feet to 460,000 square feet.

In a partnership with affiliates of AEW Capital Management L.P., Quadrangle Development Corp. has purchased the storied 420,000-square-foot property in the East End submarket of Washington, D.C.

Lockton Insurance Brokers L.L.C. has inked a lease renewal for office space at Ernst & Young Plaza, a 41-story, 915,316-square-foot Class A office building in Los Angeles.