MIT Real Estate Professor David Geltner--one of the developers of the Moodys/REAL Commercial Property Price Index--earlier this week talked with Fox Business on the state of the commercial real estate market.

Here are some news and notes on retail and retail real estate from around the Web today. ...

Sam Zell was on CNBC for a lengthy interview yesterday afternoon. CNBC posted a recap of the discussion. Here is a key quote and you can watch the entire clip below. ...

For the back-to-school shopping season, regional mall REIT PREIT has created a Web site, BacktoSchoolValu.com, that includes a cute little video of kids using last year's back-to-school purchases in some unconventional ways. ...