Don Baker is a full-time staff reporter for RealtyWire, where he covers residential real estate, commercial real estate, multifamily housing, market trends, finance, construction, rental data, and regulatory issues affecting the real estate industry.
Before joining RealtyWire, Don worked as an investor relations director for a multifamily private equity fund, where he wrote investor updates and reporting materials on the performance, operations, and outlook of investment properties. That role gave him hands-on experience analyzing real estate trends, rental statistics, construction activity, financing issues, multifamily operations, compliance matters, and the legal and regulatory factors that shape property ownership and investment.
Don brings a broad understanding of both residential and commercial real estate to his reporting, with a particular focus on helping readers understand how market data, policy changes, capital markets, and local property trends affect buyers, sellers, investors, brokers, developers, and property owners.
He earned a Bachelor of Science in Business from Southern Illinois University and currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
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A beachfront home in the Sunset Cove neighborhood of Holmes Beach sold for $14.25 million, the highest reported sale in the North Port metro area for the week ending September 27, 2026.
A $5.40 million sale on Ponte Vedra Boulevard led five reported home sales in the Jacksonville metro area for the week ending September 27, 2026.
A Six Mile waterfront house on a Lake Keowee point lot sold for $5,650,000, the highest reported home sale in the Greenville metro area for the week ending September 27, 2026.
A house completed in 2025 in the Lupin Beach community at Inlet Beach sold for $7.50 million, the highest reported home sale in the Crestview, Florida metro area for the week ending September 27, 2026.
A house built in 2021 in Mountain Brook sold for $2,563,000 to lead the five highest-priced home sales reported in the Birmingham, Alabama metro area for the week ending September 27, 2026.
Investcorp paid more than $225 million for 22 infill industrial buildings in Philadelphia and Nashville while closing out a 5.8 million-square-foot portfolio in Chicago, Dallas and Charlotte for more than $550 million.
A contemporary waterfront residence on Murray Boulevard in South of Broad sold for $7.20 million, the highest of five reported home sales in the Charleston metro area for the week ending September 27, 2026.
A Tuscany Isle estate in Estero sold for $2.75 million, the highest of five reported home sales in the Cape Coral metro area for the week ending September 27, 2026.
A five-bedroom Virginia Highland house went under contract 6 days after the current listing date and sold for $3,322,500, the highest reported home sale in the Atlanta metro area for the week ending September 27, 2026.
The wholesale lender created the role less than two months after a $2.05 billion preferred-equity deal with Oaktree and the Ishbia family, and days before a $400 million rights offering record date.
The Nasdaq-listed REIT signed a definitive agreement to sell 40 outpatient medical facilities for about $531 million and a letter of intent on its final four, leaving it a pure-play senior housing owner with roughly $244 million of acquisitions lined up.
A gated 2.5-acre property in Wyoming sold for $1 million, the highest of five reported home sales in the Scranton metro area for the week ending September 20, 2026.
A newly built Wynncrest house in Dunlap sold for $594,900, first among the Peoria metro area’s five highest-priced reported home sales for the week ending September 20, 2026.
A Dunleith Court house sold for $875,000, the highest of five reported home sales in the Mobile, Alabama metro area for the week ending September 20, 2026.
Two July home price indexes land Tuesday and the September jobs report closes the week Friday, with construction spending and the weekly rate surveys in between. No FOMC meeting, and no NAR or Census housing releases until Oct. 20.
Neighborhood Intelligence, the Nasdaq company formerly known as Bed Bath & Beyond, would contribute its 38.8% tZERO stake and other digital assets to Fathom Holdings in exchange for newly issued shares and control of the national brokerage, replacing a June merger agreement that ran the other direction.
A Sept. 24 SEC filing shows Starbucks will shut roughly 1% of its more than 18,000 North America coffeehouses, with about $200 million in cash charges tied primarily to lease exit costs and severance, and net new openings guidance cut to about 440 from 600 to 650.
A $1.14 million Bentonville closing at full asking price led five reported Fayetteville-area home sales for the week ending September 20, 2026.
A Del Rey house sold for $1.88 million, first among the home sales reported across the Fresno, California metro area in the week ending September 20, 2026.
A house completed this year on Haywood Court sold for $1.83 million, the highest reported home sale in the Little Rock metro area for the week ending September 20, 2026.
A Longmeadow Colonial sold for $922,500, the highest reported home sale in the Springfield, Massachusetts metro area for the week ending September 20, 2026.
A 2024 home on a one-acre homesite in Coopersburg’s Traditions of Locust Valley sold for $1.27 million, the highest of five reported home sales in the Allentown, Pennsylvania metro area for the week ending September 20, 2026.
A gulf-front house in Gulf Shores with 75 feet of private beach sold for $2.46 million, topping five reported home sales in the Daphne, Alabama metro area for the week ending September 20, 2026.
A 1955 house on Barfield Road in East Memphis sold for $1.33 million, the top reported sale in the Memphis, Tennessee metro area for the week ending September 20, 2026.
A midcentury modern in Spokane’s Rockwood neighborhood sold for $1.57 million, the highest reported sale in the Spokane metro area for the week ending September 20, 2026.
An Acampo estate set along a 180-acre lake sold for $3.10 million, the highest of five reported home sales in the Stockton metro area for the week ending September 20.
The Indianapolis developer is asking accredited investors for as much as $230 million to build Class A apartments at six sites in Colorado, Kentucky, Montana, Arizona and Nevada, on the argument that four years of correction in the multifamily market have run their course.
A bayou-front house with a covered boat slip sold for $7.72 million on Boca Grande, the highest of five reported home sales in the Cape Coral, Florida metro area for the week ending September 20, 2026.
A riverfront property on 1.65 acres in Merritt Island sold for $1.95 million, the highest reported home sale in the Palm Bay, Florida metro area for the week ending September 20, 2026.
A five-bedroom house on Spyglass Lane in New Smyrna Beach, with a dock and covered boat lift on the Intracoastal, sold for $3.83 million, the top reported sale in the Deltona, Florida metro area for the week ending September 20, 2026.
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