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The former chief executive of a Nebraska bank has been convicted by a federal jury for lying to investors and regulators about considerable losses tied to risky commercial real estate investments.

Banks have added so much capital in the past several years that they're better protected from declines in real estate values than they were before the financial crisis.

Commercial real estate executives expect asset values and capital availability to stabilize next year, according to The Real Estate Roundtable's fourth-quarter Sentiment Index survey.

New York City officials announced plans for what may be Brooklyn's tallest building, a 600-foot office tower in the borough's downtown.

RCS Capital Corp. plunged after Apollo Global Management scaled back plans to invest in the company and another entity associated with Nicholas Schorsch.

Clayton Homes reported a higher third-quarter profit on increased sales of its manufactured homes.

Shares of real estate investment trusts fell the most since August after an upbeat reading on U.S. jobs increased the odds the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates this year.

The commercial mortgage-backed securities delinquency rate continued its year-long improvement in October, with another big improvement predicted for November, according to Trepp.

New rules proposed by international banking regulators would severely reduce, and possibly eliminate, banks' profitability in trading bonds that finance everything from home loans and apartment mortgages to auto loans and student debt, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Greystone has secured $88.6 million in financing to rehabilitate 20 multifamily properties for low-income residents in Tennessee.

Loan demand and conditions remained largely unchanged in the third quarter, with some easing of credit standards for consumer and auto loans, according to a survey of senior loan officers conducted by the Federal Reserve.

Defaults on commercial mortgage-backed securities declined from the end of the third quarter, compared to the previous quarter, according to Fitch Ratings.

The Mortgage Bankers Association said Thursday that it expects commercial and multifamily mortgage originations will increase year-over-year in 2016 by 6% to $485 billion.

BOK Financial reported a small drop in third-quarter profit, as a decline in the value of mortgage servicing rights offset loan and fee income growth.

New York Community Bancorp has agreed to buy Astoria Financial for about $2 billion in cash and stock, combining two of the largest New York-area banks to create an institution with about $64 billion in total assets.

The commercial real estate loans that underlie commercial mortgage-backed securities posted a modest increase in price from August to September, according to DebtX.

Consumer demand for apartments continued to rise in the third quarter, according to the National Multifamily Housing Council.

Astoria Financial, a New York City-area thrift under pressure from activist investor Basswood Capital Management to boost the share price, is exploring a sale, according to people familiar with the matter. The stock climbed as much as 6.2%.

The inclusion of a loan secured by Chicago's Prudential Plaza in a recent CMBS is causing a stir.

American Finance Trust, a commercial mortgage real estate investment trust, plans to securitize a $649.5 million loan that is secured by 268 single-tenant properties, according to Standard & Poor's.