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A group of competing real estate companies and trade groups launched Let America Build on Sept. 15, a national awareness campaign aimed at local zoning, permitting and land-use rules. No budget was disclosed.
Bilt bought Livly’s property operations platform and signed a separate deal to run resident experience across Collective Residential’s communities. Terms were not disclosed.
Associated Builders and Contractors said its Construction Backlog Indicator rose half a month to 8.5 months in August. Chief economist Anirban Basu said roughly one in six members is now under contract on a data center, the highest share on record.
The Federal Open Market Committee opened a two-day meeting Sept. 15 with markets pricing a rate increase at better than 90% odds. The 10-year Treasury has already closed at 4.97%, its highest of 2026, and the 30-year mortgage rate is at 6.76%.
NAHB’s analysis of federal survey data shows 1.37 million women worked in construction in 2025, the highest share since at least 2004 – concentrated in office roles, not the crafts where builders have 326,000 openings.
Redfin’s analysis of Census microdata shows San Antonio led Gen Z net migration in 2024 and Houston led millennials, while New York and Los Angeles lost the most from both generations.
Scaffold raised $15 million led by Navitas Capital, with D.R. Horton, Pulte Homes and Builders FirstSource investing in an AI layer that connects the systems 29 of the top 30 builders already run.
A Mortenson-McCownGordon joint venture will build the ballpark and JE Dunn will develop the surrounding 85 acres, moving the Royals’ $3 billion Crown Center project toward a 2027 groundbreaking.
Households’ real estate assets reached $49.8 trillion in the second quarter and owners’ equity $35.8 trillion, according to the Federal Reserve’s Z.1 accounts. Mortgage and home-equity debt grew 3.0% year over year against a 2.5% gain in asset values.
Fifty-nine percent of title firms reported at least one seller impersonation fraud attempt in 2025, more than double the 28% in ALTA’s 2024 study. Vacant land is still the top target, deepfaked voices are spreading, and a quarter of affected firms paid claims.
SL Green said Sept. 14 that a new eight-year lease brought 245 Park Avenue to 100% leased and that its 2026 Manhattan office leasing has reached 1,760,649 square feet across 129 leases, signed 15.8% above prior escalated rents.
Airbnb committed an initial $250 million in last-dollar financing to rental projects that are permitted but short of the capital needed to break ground, saying it expects to unlock more than $5 billion over ten years. The first investment is $6.4 million for 201 affordable units in Austin, Texas.
A Zillow analysis published Sept. 14 finds 1.42 million residential permits issued in the year through July 2026, down 1.7%, with detached single-family completions falling to about 817,000 and the steepest pullbacks in Austin and San Antonio.
Realty Income and KKR said Sept. 14 they will form a euro-denominated joint venture holding net lease assets in Spain, Ireland, Poland and the Netherlands, with KKR taking 49% for β¬528 million and Realty Income keeping control and the management fee.
The construction intelligence firm said Sept. 14 it raised $130 million led by O.G. Venture Partners, bringing total funding to $297 million, as owners including Intel and Digital Realty push schedule-critical data center projects.
D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb announced separate settlements Sept. 14 with JBG Smith and Mid-America Apartments, which will pay $8.1 million and $1.2 million and stop using revenue management software built on competitors’ confidential data.
The Fed decides Wednesday with fresh projections, and builder sentiment, housing starts and pending home sales all land within 48 hours of it.
Shelter inflation cooled while mortgage rates climbed to 6.76%, existing-home sales slipped below 4 million and an $8.1 billion apartment merger landed. The week that set up the Fed’s Sept. 16 decision.
The commercial mortgage trade association has hired BMO Capital Markets’ head of CMBS to lead it from Sept. 30, ending an interim stretch after Lisa Pendergast’s decade in the job.
The Nasdaq-listed REIT sold 30 outpatient medical buildings for about $198 million, repaid $119 million of secured term loans and moved a step closer to a senior housing portfolio.
Ordinance 127491 lets Seattle homeowners bar brokers, agents and investors from approaching them about selling, with penalties that compound daily once a name is on the list.
A fast-growing northeast Florida county has paused about $100 million in capital projects and banked $30 million in extra reserves while voters decide whether to cut property taxes on Nov. 3.
A 24-story Downtown Brooklyn tower finished in 2023 and never leased will become 239 rental apartments, financed by a $208 million first mortgage construction loan from Northwind Group.
Mayor Daniel Lurie declared a rent emergency on Sept. 10, backing six proposed ordinances and more than $30 million in spending, including a 10 percent annual ceiling on banked rent increases and capital improvement pass-throughs.
The Consumer Price Index rose 0.4 percent in August and 3.4 percent over the year, but shelter costs eased to a 3.0 percent annual pace days before the Federal Reserve meets.
Redfin counted 1.53 million sellers against 972,300 buyers in August, a 57.9% gap and the largest in records back to 2013. All ten most buyer-friendly metros are in the Sun Belt.
CrossCountry Mortgage raised its agency conforming limit to $845,000 on Sept. 10, up 1.47% from $832,750, more than two months before FHFA sets the official 2027 figure.
The Fifth Circuit affirmed dismissal Sept. 9 of a Texas broker’s antitrust suit challenging the three-way Realtor membership requirement for MLS access, holding the complaint failed to allege antitrust injury.
Freddie Mac’s Sept. 10 survey put the 30-year fixed rate at 6.76%, the highest since June 2025, as crude oil prices and producer inflation pushed bond yields up days before the Fed meets.
Mayor Daniel Lurie broke ground Sept. 9 on FivePoint’s 270-acre Candlestick Point redevelopment, which is planned for 7,200 homes and a 2.8-million-square-foot innovation district in the Bayview.
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