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Only 41% of apartments completed in the first quarter of 2026 were leased within three months, the seventh straight quarter below 50%, as the record delivery wave keeps pressure on lease-up.
NIC MAP’s updated Senior Housing Market Outlook says the industry needs more than $1 trillion in cumulative investment through 2050, with construction starts down about 67% since 2021 as the 80-plus population enters its steepest growth in U.S. history.
EQT Real Estate’s Industrial Value Fund V sold a 46-building warehouse portfolio across 10 Southeast markets to an LBA Realty affiliate, days after national industrial vacancy fell for the first time since 2022.
Nuveen closed on more than $1 billion for the fourth vintage of its C-PACE lending fund series, bringing total commitments to $3 billion as insurers treat the asset class as a standing allocation.
Morgan Stanley Investment Management raised its 2026 U.S. commercial real estate transaction volume forecast 12% to $635 billion, citing constrained supply and repriced assets as an attractive entry point.
Access Point Financial and TMGOC Ventures co-originated $120 million in bridge financing and preferred equity for Kailas Companies’ office-to-hotel conversion in downtown New Orleans.
The Bluffs, a two-building Class A campus in Playa Vista, Los Angeles, has completed a full repositioning with more than 57,000 square feet leased, including The Honest Company’s headquarters relocation.
Greystone Capital Advisors completed a $369.6 million cross-collateralized bridge facility from PGIM covering five newly built New Jersey multifamily properties totaling 1,340 units for Capodagli Property Company.
Deere & Company reported fiscal third-quarter net income of $1.379 billion, with Construction & Forestry sales up 18% and segment operating profit up 84% β a read on where U.S. building activity is actually concentrated.
U.S. construction starts rose 25.6% in July to a $1.79 trillion annual rate, Dodge Construction Network reported, but nearly $29 billion of the increase came from three data center and semiconductor projects. Residential starts remain down for the year.
Construction payrolls grew by 22,000 in July while total U.S. employment fell 23,000, according to NAHB’s state-level breakdown of Bureau of Labor Statistics data. Illinois led monthly gains; Texas posted the largest decline.
Amazon will build a multibillion-dollar robotics manufacturing facility on about 300 acres in East Austin, anchoring the newly annexed Dog’s Head development with 300 to 500 jobs.
Oxford Properties bought the 99%-leased One Marina Park Drive in Boston’s Seaport District from Clarion Partners for $435 million, about 10% less than Clarion paid in 2019.
The New York metro area counted 394,300 tech talent workers in 2025 against the San Francisco Bay Area’s 375,730, the first time New York has led in the 13 years CBRE has tracked the measure.
Knightvest Capital has acquired three apartment communities totaling 1,027 units in Round Rock, Texas, in the Austin metro, saying it bought the value-add portfolio at a steep discount to recent trades and replacement cost.
The National Association of Realtors has launched a quarterly Commercial Real Estate Demand Index measuring the economic forces driving demand across 306 U.S. metro areas, with St. George, Utah, ranking first nationally.
REDICO and newly formed real assets firm One Orchard have launched InfraMed Properties, a medical outpatient real estate platform starting with a 25-asset portfolio across 16 states and targeting more than $1 billion in investments.
Starwood Property Trust and Realterm co-originated a $672 million loan against a 78-property, 830-acre industrial outdoor storage portfolio owned by Stonemont Financial Group and Cerberus Capital Management — the largest financing yet in the fast-growing IOS niche.
WHITESTOWN, Ind. β JLL Income Property Trust has paid roughly $137 million for a 1.1 million-square-foot industrial distribution facility here that is fully leased to Subaru of America Inc., marking one of the largest single-property commercial real estate sales in the Indianapolis area this year. The Chicago-based, non-traded real estate investment trust acquired the property, … Read more
ATLANTA β Comcast is putting a significant chunk of its regional office footprint in metro Atlanta up for sublease, offering roughly seven floors at One Ballpark Center, the tower it anchors inside The Battery Atlanta mixed-use district next to Truist Park, home of the Atlanta Braves, according to CoStar News. The listing covers a large … Read more
Skanska will build four data centers in the U.S. Southeast under a $1.2 billion contract, one of its largest American data-center orders as the AI buildout accelerates.
Rexford Industrial Realty has agreed to sell a $1.2 billion Southern California industrial portfolio to EQT Real Estate, pushing the REIT’s 2026 dispositions to $1.5 billion as it recycles capital into its core holdings.
Goldman Sachs has agreed to acquire net-lease investment firm LCN Capital Partners for up to $410 million, expanding the bank’s asset management platform into sale-leaseback deals.
Trepp data shows domestic CMBS issuance reached $76.2 billion through July 2026, with office leading all sectors and data centers now large enough to track as a distinct securitized asset class.
Unifi, the REPREVE fiber maker, has agreed to sell two Yadkin County, N.C. real estate assets for about $60 million in gross proceeds, aiming to reduce debt and optimize its operating footprint.
The U.S. Lumber Coalition praised the Trump administration’s Section 232 tariffs on Canadian softwood lumber, arguing they protect domestic forestry jobs, as separate data shows softwood lumber prices jumped 7.4% in July.
Broad Creek Capital acquired The Crossing at Palm Aire in Sarasota, Florida, the first deployment from its Multifamily Advantage Fund’s second close, which drew European family-office capital.
AvalonBay Communities and Equity Residential completed their merger Aug. 17, forming Vivmark Residential, a roughly $51 billion apartment REIT that begins trading Aug. 18 with a newly named executive team.
Vantage Data Centers is exploring a stock listing at a roughly $100 billion valuation or a sale, Reuters and Bloomberg report, citing people familiar with the matter — a deal that would be the largest data center IPO on record.
Bank of America pledged $250 billion over 18 months for U.S. infrastructure financing, including data centers, energy generation and transportation, addressing power bottlenecks that have slowed data center construction.
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