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Cash buyers made up just 3.5% of new-home purchases in the second quarter, the smallest share since the 2007 housing bust, as FHA-backed sales hit a five-year high, NAHB finds.
National home prices were nearly flat month over month in July even as annual growth hit a one-year high, with San Francisco and West Palm Beach leading gains and Texas metros leading declines, Redfin’s home price index shows.
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.
SoftBank is investing $200 million in Gravis Robotics, valuing the excavator-autonomy startup at $1 billion in the largest Series A on record for construction robotics.
HUD spent more than $460 billion on 18 housing programs from 2015 to 2024, but the gap between home prices and incomes narrowed by a statistically insignificant 2.75%, a new Open The Books analysis finds.
Los Angeles County built a record 10,230 accessory dwelling units in 2025, more than six times 2018’s total, as new state laws stripped away local zoning barriers, a USC Lusk Center report finds.
California home sales fell 6% in July as the statewide median price dropped below $900,000 for the first time in four months, with Southern California and San Francisco Bay Area prices moving in opposite directions, C.A.R. reports.
NVIDIA, OpenAI and SoftBank have moved from exploratory talks to a formal agreement on an 8-gigawatt AI data center campus in Pike County, Ohio, with NVIDIA committing $1.5 billion directly to the project’s developer and backstopping $4.2 billion in new regional grid infrastructure.
Property data giant ATTOM has introduced three specialized AI agents that let users query its nationwide property database, analyze markets and generate client-ready reports using plain-language questions instead of code or dashboards.
Study after study ranks moving among life’s most stressful events — many put it above divorce. Having helped hundreds of families through the sale-and-move sequence, I can tell you the difference between a miserable move and a manageable one is never luck. It is a countdown. Here is the eight-week schedule I give my own … Read more
Securityholders of The Real Brokerage and RE/MAX Holdings approved their combination, clearing the way for a roughly $2.3 billion-revenue global brokerage platform spanning more than 180,000 agents.
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.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier released rewritten ballot language for the state’s contested property tax amendment after a judge found the original wording misleading, with plaintiffs now given 10 days to object before the November vote.
New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers listed his Malibu, Calif., beachfront estate for $40 million, up from the $28 million he paid for it in 2019, as he also lists homes in New Jersey and Wisconsin.
The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act could expand Florida’s manufactured-housing production, free up CDBG funding for new construction, and create a standing disaster-recovery program, according to a Florida Realtors analysis.
The NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index rose one point to 35 in August, but builder sentiment has now held below the neutral 40 mark for 16 straight months as price cuts and elevated rates persist.
New Redfin research finds the typical family spends 52% of income on housing and childcare combined, ranging from under 40% in Little Rock to nearly 97% in Los Angeles. Redfin is also adding childcare data to its home listings.
Buying a starter home still costs $858 more per month than renting nationally, but Realtor.com’s July report finds seven metros — including Orlando, Miami and Seattle — shifting toward buyers as prices fall faster than rents.
A Brooklyn appellate justice lifted a restraining order and let New York City resume its pied-a-terre tax rollout, days after a lower court halted it — but the underlying lawsuit over the rollout’s execution continues.
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.
American Housing Corp., founded by a former SpaceX engineer, says its factory-built, Lego-style rowhome system can cut construction costs 30% to 50% versus conventional homebuilding, and is raising a Series A to scale production.
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.
Birmingham, Ala., had the highest net share of investor homebuyers of any major U.S. metro in 2025, according to Realtor.com, as cash-flow-focused investors favor affordable Midwest and Rust Belt cities over coastal markets.
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.
A new SEC filing shows Berkshire Hathaway raised its Lennar stake to about $1.157 billion and opened a small D.R. Horton position in the second quarter, deepening its homebuilder bets after the $8.5 billion Taylor Morrison deal.
NAHB’s analysis of Federal Reserve data shows total consumer credit growth slowed in Q2 2026, but revolving credit card balances grew nearly twice as fast as auto and student loan debt.
Florida single-family and condo sales both rose year over year in July for an 11th consecutive month, even as mortgage rates stayed elevated and statewide inventory kept shrinking, Florida Realtors reports.
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.
Negotiation is where a home sale is won or lost — and it starts long before the first offer arrives. After three decades of negotiating real estate transactions, I can tell you the sellers who come out ahead are not the toughest talkers. They are the best prepared. Whether your REALTOR handles the bargaining or … Read more
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