Landlords filled up 17 million square feet of additional real-estate space in open-air shopping centers last quarter, up 49% from 2019. The surge is propelled by increased foot traffic to grocery stores, curbside pickup and population shifts that favor suburban shopping.

More than half of U.S. industrial leasing in the third quarter involved users looking for space of less than 100,000 square feet, often a mark of a last-mile facility.

Amazon blanketed the country with more than 450 new facilities used to store, sort and ship items, doubling down on a logistics empire. Many of the new buildings are concentrated near big cities, putting more items for sale on the website closer to large population centers. The facilities also include more than two dozen smaller outposts stocked with bestselling items.

Investors had a record quarter, buying 90,215 homes worth a combined $63.6 billion. Investors made up 18.2% of all housing sales in Q3.

A venture between Hackman Capital Partners and Square Mile Capital Management has agreed to pay more than $1.8 billion for the historic CBS Studio Center in Los Angeles, the latest deal in the red-hot studio sector.

CyrusOne, a real-estate investment trust that designs, builds and operates data centers, is selling itself to investment company KKR & Co. and Global Infrastructure Partners LLC in an all-cash transaction valued at about $15 billion.

The first three quarters of 2021 set a record for commercial property sales activity while prices also reached new highs. A lot of uncertainty still hangs over the office and retail markets, while a full recovery in the hotel business could be years away. But purchases of apartment buildings, life-science labs and industrial properties helped propel commercial sales for the first nine months of this year to $462.1 billion, up 10% from the same nine-month period in 2019.

Home-price growth held at a record high in August, as demand from home buyers remained robust despite skyrocketing prices. The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller National Home Price Index, which measures average home prices in major metropolitan areas across the nation, rose 19.8% in the year that ended in August.

Modern Land (China), Co. a 21-year-old developer that focuses on green projects, failed to repay a $250 million dollar bond that matured Monday, adding to a string of missed payments by Chinese real-estate companies.

China Evergrande Group made an overdue interest payment of $83.5 million to international bondholders in an unexpected move that allows the property company to stave off a default on about $2.03 billion of dollar bonds.