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A new Zillow survey of 366 real estate agents finds most agree independent representation and full listing access serve buyers, even as fewer say the practices help agents themselves.
Oregon Housing and Community Services is offering fixed-rate permanent mortgages to affordable housing developers for the first time in nearly two decades, filling a financing gap between construction and long-term debt.
Manhattan tenants leased 3.87 million square feet of office space in July, up 28 percent year over year, with Midtown South driving nearly half the activity as availability hit a six-year low, Colliers reports.
PulteGroup is standing up a new Florida Panhandle Division and naming Taylor Larza to lead it, formalizing its push into the Bay County, Florida, market where it has rights to more than 1,300 homesites.
Snapchat’s parent company has taken over the eighth through 10th floors at Vornado’s Penn 2 tower that Verizon leased just over a year ago for a headquarters it never occupied.
Kairoi Residential, PGIM Real Estate and Germany’s Helaba Bank broke ground on a 420-unit ultra-luxury apartment development in Denver’s LoHi neighborhood, pairing a San Antonio developer with international institutional capital.
KBRA assigned a preliminary rating to a $1.036 billion single-borrower CMBS loan backed by 15 apartment complexes with 6,041 units across seven states, with KBRA valuing the portfolio 37% below the appraiser’s estimate.
Greystone arranged a $105.8 million Freddie Mac refinancing for 476 apartments in El Cajon, California, on behalf of Apollo-owned Bridge Investment Group, as agency lenders keep backing stabilized multifamily assets.
A $91.8 million CMBS loan backed by Pittsburgh’s Gateway Center office complex was liquidated for $37.7 million, booking a $64.8 million realized loss, according to the trust’s SEC distribution filing.
A record 242 U.S. cities now have typical starter homes worth at least $1 million, up from 226 in 2025 and just 80 in February 2020, according to Zillow. California accounts for 105 of them. The national typical starter home is worth $198,649 — a figure that, placed beside the $1 million threshold, describes two … Read more
Kelley Blue Book Homes, backed by True Footage’s TrueTracts appraisal technology, launched a free nationwide home valuation platform in 11 states Monday, targeting accuracy within 3% of final sale price.
The share of U.S. listings with a price cut rose to 20% in July from 18.8% in June, Realtor.com reports, as mortgage rates near a one-year high stalled the summer selling season.
Adwerx launched a Canva integration letting real estate agents import designs directly into ad campaigns without downloading or re-uploading files, available now at no additional cost.
Census Bureau data show U.S. construction spending fell 3.2% year over year in June to a $2,166.5 billion annual rate, as residential building cooled while nonresidential construction, led by data centers, held up.
JPMorganChase will deploy $750 billion through 2035 under its American Dream Initiative, aiming to finance 1 million affordable housing units and help 500,000 people buy homes, including 200,000 first-time buyers.
Two Harbors Investment Corp.’s $11.30-a-share cash sale to CrossCountry Mortgage, which beat out a rival UWM bid, was delayed past its planned Aug. 3 closing pending one final state regulatory approval.
Security Properties, partnering with RGA ReCap on behalf of Reinsurance Group of America, acquired the 134-unit Langara apartment community in Issaquah, Wash., for $55.1 million.
CMBS distress climbed to 10.91% in July, its highest level of 2026, led by 16.65% distress among office loans, according to CRED iQ, as special servicing transfers outpaced actual delinquencies.
Zions Bancorporation completed its acquisition of Basis Investment Group’s agency lending platform, gaining Fannie Mae DUS and Freddie Mac Optigo multifamily lending licenses and the team behind them.
Easterly Government Properties raised its 2026 core FFO guidance to $3.07-$3.13 per share after posting second-quarter core FFO of $0.78 per share, up from $0.74 a year earlier, on 98% portfolio occupancy.
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.
Agree Realty deployed a company-record $502 million into 102 retail net lease properties in the second quarter and raised its full-year AFFO and investment guidance as a result.
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.
LPT Aperture Holdings, parent of LPT Realty and Aperture Global Real Estate, confidentially filed for an IPO with the SEC, with founder Robert Palmer confirming the move at Inman Connect San Diego.
Piedmont Office Realty Trust raised its 2026 Core FFO and same-store NOI guidance for the second straight quarter, citing strong leasing across its Sunbelt Class A office portfolio.
Compass, Midwest Real Estate Data and Zillow have filed competing post-hearing briefs in the Chicagoland MLS dispute, sharpening the disagreement over private listings, MLS access and whether the challenged rules protect cooperation or suppress competing brokerage models, according to HousingWire. The filings followed arguments over preliminary relief. Zillow alleges an unlawful group boycott; Compass and … Read more
Design trends shift roughly every ten years, so if your kitchen or baths are more than a decade old, buyers will notice — and price their offers accordingly. The good news: you do not need a renovation to close that gap. In my experience preparing hundreds of homes for market, a handful of inexpensive updates … Read more
Extra Space Storage’s second-quarter core FFO rose 4.9% to $2.15 per share as same-store NOI grew 3.5% and the REIT raised full-year guidance, even as self-storage transaction volume stays muted.
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