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Treasury’s proposed rules for the ROAD to Housing Act’s ban on large institutional investor home purchases define build-to-rent, renovate-to-rent and rent-to-own exceptions ahead of the Jan. 7, 2027 start.
Northpointe Bancshares signed a non-binding letter of intent to sell its distributed retail and consumer direct mortgage channels to CMG and expects $6 million to $7 million in restructuring costs.
Equity LifeStyle’s core manufactured home rents rose 5.7% in the third quarter and it expects about 5.1% growth in 2027, while seasonal and transient RV revenue fell 5.6%.
Total U.S. construction starts fell 1.5% in September to a $1.33 trillion annual rate, Dodge said, as gains in schools and highways offset an 18.4% commercial pullback.
Vornado, Ken Griffin and Rudin closed their 350 Park Avenue joint venture, Citadel’s 1.05 million-square-foot lease and a $3.3 billion construction loan from seven banks on Oct. 21.
NFIP policies can now be bought entirely on Floodsmart.gov in nearly 22,700 participating communities, 18 months after FEMA launched a quote-only tool that sent buyers to carriers.
The Columbus, Ohio-based builder cited higher mortgage rates and weaker demand as third-quarter gross margin slipped to 20.9% and the average price in its Southern backlog fell to $501,000.
The Canadian pension investor and Nuveen Real Estate have closed on 19 open-air shopping centers totaling 3 million square feet, anchored by grocers like Giant and Sprouts, and plan to keep buying.
Apollo will invest $1.34 billion for about two-thirds of a venture owning 19 UDR communities with 7,059 homes, at an implied 6.0% cap rate. UDR also lifted its 2026 FFOA outlook.
Real REMAX Group’s Real brokerage unveiled Leo Pro at its RISE conference, an AI platform that takes plain-language requests, runs more than three dozen task agents billed by token, and checks with agents before important actions.
The Supreme Court of Ohio unanimously denied a developer’s bid to force Lordstown to review a four-building data center plan under pre-moratorium rules, holding that a preliminary site-plan submission creates no vested right.
CBRE will pay Β£460 million (about $610 million) in cash plus an earnout of up to Β£300 million for Onnec, a London-based data center infrastructure services firm, expanding its push into hyperscaler work in Europe and Asia Pacific.
OneKey MLS, which covers New York City, Long Island and the Hudson Valley, refused Compass’s demand to let brokerages publicly market homes without sharing them through the MLS, joining Unlock MLS and CRMLS.
Dream Finders completed its all-cash purchase of Beazer Homes at $33.50 a share, adding California, Nevada, Indiana and Delaware and promising $100 million-plus in synergies as housing demand weakens.
Gilbert’s roughly $1 billion gift will not be repaid and funds nearly half of the $2.2 billion Renaissance Center and east riverfront plan, with a 501(c)(4) owning the district and surplus going to the community.
NAR’s pending home sales index fell 7.3% in September to 66.0, the lowest since 2001, while Census data showed single-family starts and permits dropping as 30-year rates sat at 7.40%.
Newmark formed a North American IOS practice, citing its research showing outdoor storage rents up 123% from 2020 to 2025 and vacancy at 5.8%.
California’s sales pace dropped to 260,410 in September, down 6.5% from a year ago, while the $899,720 statewide median barely moved, C.A.R. reported.
A new Zillow connector puts for-sale and rental listings, home values and affordability tools inside Claude, with tours, agent connections and financing a click away.
Realtor.com’s Market Clock moved to 4 o’clock as seller’s markets fell to 27 of 99 metros, with Florida leading the buyer’s side and the Midwest still favoring sellers.
SL Green and Mori Trust replaced $1.768 billion of debt on the fully leased Midtown tower with a five-year, fixed-rate $2.0 billion CMBS loan led by JPMorgan.
The NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index fell three points to 29 in October, its lowest since June 2012. NAHB blamed mortgage rates above 7%, and 43% of builders cut prices, the most since at least 2020.
September housing starts and NAR’s pending home sales index land Oct. 20, followed by PulteGroup’s third-quarter results and Freddie Mac’s rate survey on Oct. 22.
Inflation rose to 3.7%, mortgage rates held at 7.40%, September home sales ticked up while contracts fell everywhere, and Washington moved on FHA, HUD staffing and portal practices.
September producer price data show construction input costs up 11.2% to 11.9% from a year earlier, led by fuel and tariffed metals, with contractors reporting steel shortages into 2027.
Miami-Dade logged 24 home sales of $30 million or more through September, topping 2025’s full-year total of 21, even as overall sales fell 2% on higher mortgage rates.
The Memphis-based bank swung to a third-quarter loss on the sale, which it says will add about 4% to 2027 earnings and free its balance sheet for higher-yielding loans.
Founded by former Starwood and Morgan Stanley lenders, CarbonAI says its agents underwrite, draft memos and monitor CRE loans after closing. Greystone is a named customer.
Fifteen cities, from Albuquerque to Providence, will get $450,000 to $750,000 each to adopt faster permitting, expanded ADUs or housing strike teams, with up to 30 cities planned.
In an Oct. 15 letter to FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson, Sens. Cory Booker and Elizabeth Warren asked the agency to extend its Zillow-Redfin rental scrutiny to the home-buying market.
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