James Clark is a staff reporter for RealtyWire, where he covers residential real estate, home sales, brokerage trends, seller strategy, marketing, home preparation, new construction, renovations, and the practical issues that affect buyers, sellers, agents, brokers, and property owners.
Before joining RealtyWire, James spent 15 years as a residential real estate agent in the Denver, Colorado metro area. During his real estate career, he worked with three different brokerage firms and focused heavily on representing home sellers, giving him firsthand experience with pricing strategy, listing preparation, negotiations, marketing, buyer behavior, and the challenges sellers face in changing market conditions.
James brings a practical, agent-level understanding of the real estate business to his reporting. His background gives him insight into real estate regulation, mortgage issues, sales trends, listing strategy, home staging, new construction, renovations, interior design, and the updates that can help improve a property's marketability and resale value.
His reporting focuses on making real estate news, trends, and market analysis useful for readers who want to better understand how the industry works at the ground level.
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Koch Inc. is reportedly weighing a sale of data center developer Edged that could exceed $15 billion, according to a Bloomberg report, as Goldman Sachs gauges buyer interest amid an AI infrastructure investment boom.
NAREIM, the trade association for institutional real estate investment managers, named 25-year industry veteran Andy Walburger as its next CEO, succeeding Reesa Fischer effective Aug. 17.
AMD will secure more than 500 megawatts of U.S. data center capacity from Core Scientific starting in 2027, in a warrant-based infrastructure deal that could expand to 2.5 gigawatts across the company’s seven-state footprint.
Florida’s homebuilding permit activity fell 7% through the first half of 2026, extending a slowdown that began last year, though several counties bucked the statewide trend with double-digit gains.
Newmark Group posted record second-quarter revenue of $888.4 million, with double-digit growth across leasing, capital markets and servicing, and investment sales up more than 54% year over year.
Data center operator CyrusOne has named John Hatem, a nearly 15-year company veteran, as its new chief executive, succeeding Eric Schwartz as the company positions itself for continued AI-driven infrastructure growth.
Invitation Homes raised its full-year guidance after second-quarter results showed new-lease rent growth accelerating each month through June, even as the single-family rental giant continued trimming its portfolio through targeted home sales.
Meta and BlackRock announced a joint venture to develop and operate a roughly $14 billion, 1-gigawatt AI data center campus in El Paso, Texas, with BlackRock-managed funds taking an 80% ownership stake and Meta as sole tenant.
Brookfield and NextEra Energy will develop a $100 billion AI data center campus with 4.6 gigawatts of dedicated power at DOE’s former Paducah, Ky., uranium enrichment site.
Woodfield Development has opened Tides at Palm Bay, a $100 million, 318-unit mixed-use apartment and retail project on Florida’s Space Coast.
Buildings with 50 or more units accounted for 57% of the 484,000 multifamily units completed nationally in 2025, according to a National Association of Home Builders analysis of Census Bureau construction data, extending a shift toward high-density development that began in 2017.
Nvidia is the previously unnamed tenant behind Hut 8’s $19.6 billion Beacon Point data center lease in Nueces County, Texas, the Financial Times reported, a deal that could grow to $50.2 billion if renewal options are exercised.
Nvidia is discussing a financing guarantee of up to $250 billion to help OpenAI lease a 10-gigawatt Ohio data center campus valued at $500 billion, according to people familiar with the talks.
A bankruptcy court approved the $90 million sale of Hawthorne Race Course to a Delaware redevelopment firm, ending horse racing at the 135-year-old Chicago-area track and killing a long-planned casino.
Naples closed home sales rose 16.5% year over year in June, part of a broader Florida rebound in sales, prices, and pending activity, according to state and local Realtor data.
Ascent Housing bought the 140-unit Reserve at Waterford Lakes in Charlotte for $27.8 million, aiming to preserve it as naturally occurring affordable housing, Newmark says.
Buyers and sellers are bringing AI-generated home values into negotiations — confident numbers missing comps, condition and concessions. How agents answer.
Phoenix office vacancy fell to 23.4% in the second quarter, a third straight quarterly decline, but Newmark’s research says the improvement is driven mostly by shrinking inventory, not a leasing rebound.
The Beverly Hills estate built on the site of the 1969 Manson Family murders is back on the market at $44.99 million, the latest turn in owner Jeff Franklin’s four-year attempt to sell the 21,000-square-foot property.
The 30-year mortgage rate hit its highest level since August 2025 this week, just as the Fed meets under Chair Kevin Warsh. Here’s what’s verified, and what’s still just a theory about rates going up now and down later.
Universal Insurance Holdings posted a 68.7% jump in Q2 net income, crediting Florida’s litigation reforms. State regulators point to falling lawsuits and rate cuts as evidence the reforms are working.
Prologis has offered roughly £14 billion ($18.7 billion) in stock and cash for UK industrial REIT Segro, and Segro’s board says it is minded to recommend the terms. A binding deal is not yet signed; Prologis has until August 12 to make a firm offer.
The Williams Companies purchased Williams Tower, the 64-story Houston office tower bearing its name, for $300 million, a deal that leaves seller Invesco Real Estate with a loss of more than $100 million on its 2013 purchase.
Public Storage has closed its all-stock acquisition of National Storage Affiliates, a deal valued at roughly $10.5 billion when announced in March, creating a combined company of more than 4,500 self-storage properties.
PNC, Bank of America, U.S. Bancorp and Truist all reported commercial real estate loan growth in the second quarter of 2026, extending a rebound from a multi-year pullback, according to bank earnings disclosures and Fed lending survey data.
Fourteen Greenwich sales above $10 million by mid-June — plus six pending and a private $27.8M deal — put the trophy market on a near-record pace.
New FHA-backed mortgage defaults fell 15% year over year in June, the largest annual decline in more than four years, even as overall delinquencies and foreclosure activity ticked higher, ICE Mortgage Technology reports.
ING Capital provided a fully underwritten $268 million acquisition facility to EQT Real Estate’s Core Plus Fund IV for an 11-property, 2.8 million-square-foot logistics portfolio across six U.S. markets.
Digital Realty Trust topped Wall Street estimates in the second quarter of 2026 and raised its full-year guidance, citing strong leasing tied to AI-driven data center demand, according to its SEC-filed earnings release.
Opus has broken ground on Canal Crossing Commerce Center, an 898,500-square-foot, three-building speculative industrial park near Columbus, Ohio, targeting a June 2027 completion with no tenants yet signed.
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