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Amazon will build a multibillion-dollar robotics manufacturing facility on about 300 acres in East Austin, anchoring the newly annexed Dog’s Head development with 300 to 500 jobs.
Single-family attached starts totaled 42,000 in the second quarter, down 9% year over year, pulling townhouse market share off its 2025 record high while staying well above historical norms.
Google confirmed it is the end user of a 506-acre data center campus under construction near Owasso in Tulsa County, Okla., developed under the code name Project Clydesdale.
Home discounts peak in late August across much of California, Austin and New York suburbs, and in September across Texas, Houston, Las Vegas and Washington, D.C., a Redfin analysis found.
NVIDIA has made a minority investment in Cloverleaf Infrastructure, a developer of powered, shovel-ready data center sites, targeting the power and land bottleneck constraining AI buildout.
Michigan Republican Senate nominee Mike Rogers now supports a one-year statewide moratorium on new data centers, reversing his July position as opposition to AI infrastructure crosses party lines.
The Southern Environmental Law Center asked a South Carolina court to stop construction of a $2.8 billion, 457-megawatt data center in Spartanburg County, saying the project improperly skipped planning commission review.
About 15,000 single-family built-for-rent units started construction in the second quarter, down from 18,000 a year earlier, with the four-quarter average off 16% as financing costs bite.
Oxford Properties bought the 99%-leased One Marina Park Drive in Boston’s Seaport District from Clarion Partners for $435 million, about 10% less than Clarion paid in 2019.
Fourteen percent of U.S. home-purchase agreements fell through in July, the highest share since November 2023, as a record-low buyer count and 51% more sellers than buyers shifted negotiating power.
The New York metro area counted 394,300 tech talent workers in 2025 against the San Francisco Bay Area’s 375,730, the first time New York has led in the 13 years CBRE has tracked the measure.
Indianapolis has finalized a moratorium halting new data center development through the end of 2027, adding Indiana’s largest city to a fast-growing list of communities restricting the industry.
reAlpha Tech Corp. has closed its roughly $8.5 million acquisition of InstaMortgage, bringing in-house mortgage origination, underwriting and funding to the AI-powered brokerage platform across 38 states and Washington, D.C.
CoStar Group has closed its $800 million all-cash purchase of homebuilding data provider Zonda, pushing the commercial real estate data giant deeper into the $400 billion new-home construction market.
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Bedrock Robotics said it has begun running fully autonomous, operator-less excavators on live U.S. construction sites β a first for the machines β as the AI startup pushes to ease a persistent shortage of skilled equipment operators.
The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 6.65% for the week ending Aug. 20, 2026, down from 6.67% a week earlier and the second consecutive weekly decline, according to Freddie Mac’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey.
A typical family needed 34% of its income to cover the mortgage on a median-priced new home in the second quarter, up from 32% in the first, as higher mortgage rates and rising costs reversed three straight quarters of improving affordability, according to the NAHB/Wells Fargo Cost of Housing Index.
New listings of U.S. homes rose 5.8% from a year earlier to their highest level in more than three months in the four weeks ending Aug. 16, even as pending sales slid to their lowest level since March, according to Redfin.
New American Funding, one of the largest U.S. mortgage lenders, said it is deploying Kastle’s Voice AI to handle customer phone interactions across both its origination and servicing operations.
Mortgage applications for new home purchases fell 5.7% from a year earlier and 1% from June, and the MBA estimated new single-family home sales ran at a 647,000 annual pace in July, down 3% from June.
Hovnanian Enterprises reported fiscal third-quarter revenue of $705.7 million, down 12% from a year earlier, and a net loss of $4.5 million, as thinner margins and a cooler market weighed on the national homebuilder.
The share of mortgaged U.S. homes considered equity-rich fell to 41.1% in the second quarter, down from 43.3% in the first quarter and 47.4% a year earlier β the fourth straight quarterly decline, according to ATTOM.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac completed 15,855 foreclosure prevention actions in May, down from the prior month, while the serious delinquency rate held at a low 0.58%, according to the FHFA.
Knightvest Capital has acquired three apartment communities totaling 1,027 units in Round Rock, Texas, in the Austin metro, saying it bought the value-add portfolio at a steep discount to recent trades and replacement cost.
The National Association of Realtors has launched a quarterly Commercial Real Estate Demand Index measuring the economic forces driving demand across 306 U.S. metro areas, with St. George, Utah, ranking first nationally.
A storied Bel Air estate known as Casa Encantada sold for $130 million in July, the most expensive U.S. home sale of the month and the second-priciest of the year so far, according to Redfin.
REDICO and newly formed real assets firm One Orchard have launched InfraMed Properties, a medical outpatient real estate platform starting with a 25-asset portfolio across 16 states and targeting more than $1 billion in investments.
The Eighth Circuit upheld the Sitzer/Burnett settlements, rejecting objectors and cementing the practice changes that transformed how U.S. agents are paid.
Starwood Property Trust and Realterm co-originated a $672 million loan against a 78-property, 830-acre industrial outdoor storage portfolio owned by Stonemont Financial Group and Cerberus Capital Management — the largest financing yet in the fast-growing IOS niche.
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