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The article states that several large Chinese development companies including Greenland Holding Group, Dalian Wanda Group, and Oceanwide Holdings were planning billions of dollars worth of U.S. real estate development in cities including Chicago, Illinois, New York City, and Los Angeles, California, as of the end of 2015.

The article reports on the split between the real-estate industry and the EB-5 program, which offers green cards to aspiring immigrants, and also allows the developers for getting benefit from cheap financing and the real estate firm Related Cos. urged from legislators for the job creation.

The article reports on challenges facing Chinese real estate firms across the world as of March 2015 as they look to diversify away from the Chinese property market to places such as Detroit, Michigan where a developer has gone to court with former tenants of David Stott Building which it acquired in 2013.

This section offers news briefs on the real estate industry in the U.S. as of December 31, 2014, including the construction by developer Rob Maguire of an office building in Los Angeles, California after signing a deal with property investor DivcoWest, the resignation of Nicholas Schorsch as chairman of brokerage firm RCS Capital Corp., and a report by property and construction consulting firm Rider Levett Bucknall which shows rising construction costs in the country.

The article focuses on the potential impact of mansion taxes on the property market.

U.S. real-estate industry news briefs are presented, including the real-estate investment trust New York REIT Inc.'s consideration of bids from potential buyers for its acquisition, the U.S. Postal Service's attempts at selling Berkeley, California's post office, and funding received by real-estate developer Ian Bruce Eichner to build a condominium skyscraper in New York City's Madison Square Park.

Real-estate news briefs are presented, including California legislation promoting transparency in commercial-property leases and sales, lawsuits by the developer Forest City Ratner Cos. and the contractor Skanska AB regarding costs and construction delays of an apartment tower in New York City, and the arts-and-crafts retailer Hobby Lobby Stores Inc.'s construction of a warehouse in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

The article presents real estate industry news briefs as of July 16, 2014, including the insurance company MetLife Inc.'s plans to develop warehouses and distribution space in the U.S., the bids of the investment firms Blackstone Group LP and Oaktree Capital Group for a portfolio of Spanish home mortgages, and real estate firm CBRE Group Inc.'s acquisition of the consulting firm PKF Consulting USA.

The article discusses the expansions and relocation of technology companies in Silicon Valley, California to San Francisco, California as of May 2014, with topics including the market for office space real estate in San Francisco, and the price per square foot of an office leased by venture capital firm Norwest Venture Partners.

The article presents news briefs for the U.S. real estate industry as of May 28, 2014, with topics including the transformation of a Miami Beach, Florida apartment complex to a luxury resort by hotel investor John Pritzker; the development of rail yards near the Amtrak train 30th Street Station in Philadephia, Pennsylvania; and the purchase of Elysian Parc apartments in Las Vegas, Nevada by Hamilton Zanze Real Estate Investments.

The article focuses on real estate-related news briefs as of May 21, 2014, commenting that investment analyst director Tad Philipp is designing one of the 10 miniature golf holes that will be installed on New York's Governor's Island, Vornado Realty Trust is in talks with sovereign wealth fund Qatar Investment Authority to finance a planned condominium tower in Manhattan, New York, and work has started on the Downtown East development project in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The article presents real estate news briefs as of January 2014. Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. sold the St. Regis Bal Harbour Resort in Miami, Florida to Al Rayyan Tourism Investment. Investment company Princeton Holdings LLC reached a deal for a portfolio buildings, including the U.S. General Services Administration. Corporations Sunset Development Co. and MetLife Inc. will purchase an office complex in San Ramon, California.

The article offers real estate news briefs as of September 19, 2012, on topics including development firm Millennium Partners, private-equity firm Starwood Capital Group, and the market in commercial mortgage-backed securities.

The article presents U.S. real estate news briefs as of August 29, 2012 such as plans from financial services provider Citigroup Inc. to find a new skyscraper office, increased bookings at hotels in Tampa, Florida and Charlotte, North Carolina for the political national conventions, and a parking lot garage design from Spectrum Properties in Tennessee.

The article reports that due to debt and low tenant rates, Los Angeles, California-based office landlord company MPG Office Trust Inc. has hired real-estate adviser Eastdil Secured to assist in finding potential buyers or investors for the company and its Los Angeles properties.

This section offers news briefs on the real estate sector in the U.S. as of December 28, 2011, including the volume of commercial real estate deals in December, the acquisition of a stake in apartment company Archstone by Equity Residential and a mortgage deal entered by Kushner Cos. on 666 Fifth Avenue in New York City.

This article looks back trends in the commercial real-estate market in the U.S. in 2011.

This section offers news briefs on the real estate sector in the U.S. as of November 9, 2011, including the decision of the University of Michigan Board of Regents to invest in a real-estate fund run by Related Cos., the plan of Palace Resorts LLC to add memorabilia to its Mexican resorts and a forecast for vacancy in the U.S. office space market in 2012.

The article reports that U.S. apartment operator and developer Archstone has received bids from some major names in real estate as its owners debate over whether to sell the firm or to bring it public.

This section offers news briefs on the U.S. real estate industry as of August 17, 2011, including the competition for the 9.5 billion U.S. dollar real estate loan portfolio of Anglo Irish Corp., the benefits of the decision of Borders Group to close for shoppers, and the participation of Florida developer Michael Swerdlow in a competition for a real estate development project in North Miami.

This section offers news briefs related to the real estate sector of the U.S. as of August 2011 including one on the name of the 30 quality malls to be constructed by General Growth Properties Inc., one on a lease signed by Tishman Speyer with the French Ministry of the Interior in Paris, France, and one on the sale of an engine plant by the U.S. Army in Stratford, Connecticut.

The article reports on the performance of the U.S. real estate industry as of July 13, 2011, which is characterized by a strong recovery of values of office buildings in several cities and the flat vacancy rates in the suburban office market.

This section offers news briefs on the U.S. real estate market including a listing assignment secured by Eastdil Secured LLC for the sale of Anglo Irish Bank Corporation's portfolio of commercial-real-estate loans, the impending U.S. debut of KidZania and the acquisition by a group of investors of a foreclased land near the Walt Disney World site in Florida.

The article reports that special servicers, or real estate firms managing distressed commercial mortgages, are employing creative methods to dispose commercial real estate.

The article offers real estate news briefs as of July 24, 2013, on topics including movements in property values in Detroit, Michigan, the Crystals mall in Las Vegas, Nevada, owned by MGM Resorts International and investment company Dubai World, and the selection of Jeffrey Fastov as a senior executive at Square Mile Capital Management.

The article offers real estate industry news briefs as of May 8, 2013, on topics including the planned redevelopment of the Foothills Mall in Fort Collins, Colorado, the U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corp.'s financing of investment firm Paladin Realty Partners, and the leadership of Vornado Realty Trust.