Blackstone and DDR Corp.’s recent acquisition of the 46-property shopping center portfolio from the EPN Group signals institutional investors’ continued interest in class-A and B-plus portfolio deals...

Rouse Properties Inc. became an independent regional mall company effective Jan. 13. The company now trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol RSE...

Federal Realty Investment Trust has executed a 60,000-sq.-ft. lease with AMC Theatres for a 12-screen theatre at Assembly Row, a mixed-use development in Somerville, Mass...

Just months after the fruits of a previous joint venture debuted, CBL & Associates Properties Inc. has formed a 75/25 joint venture with Horizon Group Properties Inc. to develop the 370,000-sq.-ft. Outlet Shoppes at Atlanta. Construction is...

Affiliates of Blackstone and DDR Corp. formed a joint venture to acquire a portfolio of 46 shopping centers currently owned by EPN Group...

Taubman Centers Inc. has turned over the keys to Regency Square in Richmond, Va., transferring title of the 1970s-era regional mall to a mortgage lender on behalf of LNR Partners LLC as the asset’s special servicer...

TIAA-CREF, the financial services organization, has purchased the retail condominium at 2300 Broadway in a sales transaction brokered by international commercial real estate services firm Studley...

CBL & Associates Properties Inc. closed four separate loans totaling $383 million in December. After repayment of existing loan balances, the new financing activity resulted in proceeds of more than $160 million...

On Dec. 27, Sears Holding announced it would close 120 underperforming Sears and Kmart stores. It has now posted a partial list and identified 79 stores that it will shutter...