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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.
Gov. Whitmer signed a law barring institutional investors owning more than 100 Michigan homes from buying single-family houses, part of a package adding housing tax credits and zoning reforms.
Trademark Property Company and Harrison Street Asset Management will break ground Aug. 3 on Anthem, a $135 million-plus redevelopment of Arlington, Texas’s former Lincoln Square shopping center.
MassDOT is seeking developers for a 20-acre Fall River, Mass., waterfront site that officials say could draw close to $1 billion in private investment and 1,000-plus homes.
A Leon County judge heard arguments over the ballot wording of Florida’s proposed homestead property tax amendment, which would raise the exemption to $250,000 by 2028 if approved in November.
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S&P Cotality Case-Shiller data for May show a 1.1% annual gain nationally, with Chicago and New York leading and several Western and Sunbelt metros declining as inflation outpaces price growth.
Cotality’s Q1 2026 Homeowner Equity Insights Report shows mortgaged U.S. homeowners hold a record $17.9 trillion in equity, with HELOC borrowing rising 10% year over year even as mortgage rates climb.
Redfin reports vacation-home mortgages rose 4.1% in 2025, the first increase since the pandemic peak, with 85.2% of loans going to high earners and West Palm Beach, Fla., leading the nation.
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.
U.S. nonresidential construction starts jumped to a one-month record of $100.3 billion in June, powered by a surge in office and data center projects, according to ConstructConnect.
A federal judge dismissed a class action alleging Zillow steered homebuyers to its own mortgage unit, ruling plaintiffs lacked standing, but gave them until Aug. 17 to refile.
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.
New York City halted construction at GFP Real Estate’s 222 Broadway office-to-residential conversion for unreported structural cracks, the second such stop-work order in a month.
MIAMI REALTORS merged with Martin County REALTORS, its second merger in two months, creating a single association and MLS covering five Southeast Florida counties.
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.
Atlanta-based MDH Partners bought a Sunrise, Florida industrial property for $40.1 million from a Clarion Partners affiliate that had held it for more than a decade.
Strada Investment Group paid $103 million, about $814 per square foot, for a 126,537-square-foot office building in San Francisco’s Design District.
Pacific Urban Investors bought the 387-unit A’Cappella Apartment Homes in Lynnwood, Washington, from Weidner Apartment Homes for $112 million in a CBRE-brokered deal.
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.
California brokerage FirstTeam Real Estate is deploying Purlin’s AI operating platform to unify contracts, negotiations, and client communications for its agents.
Reuters: Switch has engaged banks for a possible IPO valuing it up to $80 billion — the public market’s biggest AI-infrastructure test yet.
Buyers and sellers are bringing AI-generated home values into negotiations — confident numbers missing comps, condition and concessions. How agents answer.
Galaxy Digital sold $3.507 billion in senior secured notes to fund new construction at its Helios data center campus in Dickens County, Texas, where CoreWeave has committed to lease the entire 800-megawatt site.
ABC’s Construction Backlog Indicator fell to 8.8 months in June, down from May but still above last year’s level, as data center work continues to outpace the rest of the commercial construction market.
New RGB income data show stabilized tenants earn far less than market-rate renters on average, but board member Arpit Gupta says a meaningful share earn six figures, reviving a debate over how well the program targets lower-income households.
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.
San Francisco’s apartment vacancy rate has dropped to roughly 2.9%, its lowest level in about 25 years, according to CBRE data, as AI-driven tech hiring collides with one of the tightest new-construction pipelines in the country.
Bayview Asset Management and Springmont Capital, the Morgan family’s investment office, are acquiring a majority stake in commercial mortgage bank BWE, with CEO DJ Effler staying on and the deal expected to close this fall.
The NNSA has selected Amentum and DC BLOX to negotiate a phased lease for a 1-gigawatt AI data center backed by 2 gigawatts of on-site power at the Savannah River Site in Aiken County, South Carolina. No lease is final and construction has not started.
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