Bank lending increased across the board for multifamily properties, income-producing commercial real estate, and owner-occupied commercial real estate, according to Chandan Economics. And the recovery in large and mid-tier banks’ commercial property balance sheets continued into the third quarter, stated Sam Chandan, chief economist.

The apartment market posted positive results in May 2013. Annual effective rent growth was 3.34% while the occupancy rate increased 35 basis points (bps) from a year ago. Despite the recent, consistent slowing trend in effective rent growth at the national level, results did bump up slightly from April 2013 to May 2013, even though 73,629 units have already delivered across the country this year.

It’s a tale as old as time: Boy meets girl. They fall in love, or at least fall in like enough that they’re together all the time and finish each other’s sentences and have their own language and are really irritating their friends. So they decide to move in together, because rent is expensive, their roommates are annoying and they spend all their time together anyway, and really, how different could living together be. Then it’s all cool for awhile until boy discovers that he can’t stand girl’s laugh anymore and girl is sick and tired of picking up boy’s laundry from the floor every day. And they break up.

Stocks continued to rally and recorded new highs in April, following a period of modest economic growth and unexpectedly good earnings reported by many companies. Some of the most surprising results came from Nevada-based companies, with positive tourism and general economic growth in the state providing a boost.

Last month we reported to you how Colorado became the ninth state to prohibit employers from using credit information for employment purposes. Nevada has just become the tenth state.