The fastest-growing metro areas in the United States year-over-year in 2014—including both employment growth and GDP per capita growth combined—were (in order beginning with the strongest): Austin, Houston, Raleigh, Fresno and Dallas.

All good times do come to an end, but in the case of the running boom for U.S. apartment properties, demographic data (demand) and development data (supply) are still on the landlords’ side and likely will be for at least another decade, if not longer.

During the worst of the recession, the confidence of homebuilders nationwide was absolutely crushed. But homebuilders finally reached a more optimistic frame of mind.

This year is going to be another good year for the U.S. hotel industry, even better than the strong 2014, according to recent predictions from various sources, including the most recent TravelClick North American Hospitality Review (NAHR) and PKF Hospitality Research (a CBRE company).

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the CPI was down 0.4 percent in December. That’s the steepest drop in that particular metric since 2008.

For-rent multifamily is long past being the darling property type of the year for any particular year since the recession hit.

Retail sales dropped a bit in December, the Census Bureau reports, adjusting for the holiday season–down 0.9 percent compared with November–which sounds like bad news for retailers and the landlords that lease space to them.