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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Spirit Investment Partners and Strategic Value Partners, financed by Oaktree Capital, acquired 895 units across two newly built Houston and Denton, Texas apartment communities from Resia.
Blackstone will pay roughly A$36 billion for HSBC’s Australian home loan book, the largest residential mortgage portfolio transaction on record, as HSBC retreats from Australian retail banking.
71% of Americans oppose data centers in their local area, Gallup finds, as New York enacts a statewide moratorium and county votes diverge from Georgia to Arkansas ahead of key primary elections.
Regency Centers lifted its 2026 FFO and same-property NOI guidance after a strong second quarter, with leasing spreads above 10% on renewals across its grocery-anchored shopping center portfolio.
CubeSmart’s second-quarter net income rose to $89.6 million even as same-store NOI dipped 0.7%. The self-storage REIT also unveiled a new joint venture with Heitman covering 15 stores valued at $197 million.
Granite Construction’s second-quarter revenue rose 29% to $1.455 billion and adjusted EBITDA climbed 22%, even as a debt-settlement charge produced a reported net loss. Data-center-related backlog tripled to $223 million.
Mayor Brandon Johnson joined developers to break ground on converting a 25-story office tower at 500 N. Michigan Ave. into 320 apartments, including 64 affordable units, in a $162 million project.
The Clarksville City Council approved industrial revenue bonds backing Serverfarm’s $6.6 billion data center campus, capping a financing process that drew community pushback over transparency.
A penthouse atop Manhattan’s landmarked Sohmer Piano Building sold for $10.147 million at Sotheby’s New York, headlining a two-day Concierge Auctions sale that drew more than $520 million in aggregate bids across eight properties.
Goldman Sachs’ Urban Investment Group is providing a $116 million construction loan toward a $269 million redevelopment of Parkside Commons, a 393-unit affordable housing complex on Syracuse’s East Side.
Amazon now expects to spend about $220 billion on capex in 2026 as AWS backlog hits $496 billion, underscoring how much of the AI boom is landing as physical data center construction in states like Indiana, Louisiana and Oregon.
Camden Property Trust sold 11 Southern California apartment communities totaling 3,620 units for about $1.625 billion, redeploying proceeds into debt paydown, share buybacks and Sunbelt acquisitions.
The Bureau of Reclamation’s final Environmental Impact Statement sets a new Colorado River operating framework through 2036, requiring Arizona, California and Nevada to share cuts of up to 3 million acre-feet as the river’s supply falls short of historical assumptions.
American Healthcare REIT (NYSE: AHR) has acquired a 200-unit senior living community in San Jose, Calif., for $102.75 million, according to The Registry Northern California Real Estate, adding a Silicon Valley asset to its growing senior housing portfolio.
About 5.8% of U.S. home listings were withdrawn from the market in April, tying December 2025 for the highest delisting rate since March 2020, according to Redfin. Atlanta’s reported rate reached 10.7%. Sellers are increasingly choosing to pull a listing rather than accept a weaker offer — a decision that quietly distorts the inventory figures … Read more
Lincoln Property Company says it has raised more than $2 billion in equity capital in 2026, led by a new $400 million discretionary program backed by family offices HF Capital and SGF Capital.
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.
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