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California voters will decide in November whether the state should borrow $11.25 billion to attack its affordable housing shortage, after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation putting the measure on the ballot as Proposition 1. The bond, created through Senate Bill 417 and formally titled the Veterans and Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2026, would be … Read more
Amazon Web Services said Tuesday it is increasing its planned investment in Northwest Louisiana to $18 billion, adding a third data center campus in Shreveport and pushing the total commitment $6 billion above the $12 billion figure the company announced in February, according to Amazon’s newsroom. The new campus will rise at Resilient Technology Park … Read more
Toll Brothers shares climbed after the luxury homebuilder posted fiscal third-quarter results that topped Wall Street estimates on both the top and bottom lines, even as profit and deliveries fell from a year earlier in what the company’s new chief executive called “a challenging market.” The Horsham, Pennsylvania-based builder reported diluted earnings per share of … Read more
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners on Aug. 5 released its first nationwide analysis of homeowners insurance market trends, and the numbers confirm what agents and buyers in wildfire- and storm-prone states have been reporting for years: coverage is getting more expensive and harder to keep, at a pace that is now reshaping the cost … Read more
Eagle Point Credit Management LLC has led a new holding-company loan for Nexus Data Centers’ sprawling Hubbard, Texas, campus — the AI data center project being built for anchor tenant Anthropic — pushing the development past a key milestone known as Final Investment Decision, the companies announced August 19. Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the … Read more
RE/MAX Holdings CEO Erik Carlson plans to step down from the top job once The Real Brokerage’s acquisition of RE/MAX closes, with Real Chief Operating Officer Jenna Rozenblat set to become president of the combined Real REMAX Group, the companies indicated this week as the all-stock merger heads toward completion. The leadership plan comes days … Read more
WHITESTOWN, Ind. β JLL Income Property Trust has paid roughly $137 million for a 1.1 million-square-foot industrial distribution facility here that is fully leased to Subaru of America Inc., marking one of the largest single-property commercial real estate sales in the Indianapolis area this year. The Chicago-based, non-traded real estate investment trust acquired the property, … Read more
ATLANTA β Comcast is putting a significant chunk of its regional office footprint in metro Atlanta up for sublease, offering roughly seven floors at One Ballpark Center, the tower it anchors inside The Battery Atlanta mixed-use district next to Truist Park, home of the Atlanta Braves, according to CoStar News. The listing covers a large … Read more
Newly released minutes of the Fed’s July meeting show a committee divided over raising rates, with officials noting home-purchase mortgage activity ‘remained depressed.’
Skanska will build four data centers in the U.S. Southeast under a $1.2 billion contract, one of its largest American data-center orders as the AI buildout accelerates.
Most sellers see perhaps a tenth of what their listing agent does. The yard sign, the open house, the offer paperwork β that is the visible slice. Having spent more than 30 years on the other side of the transaction, let me show you the rest of it, because understanding the full job is how … Read more
San Francisco home prices have hit a median of $1.7 million as AI industry wealth drives bidding wars, with one in three Bay Area sales now all-cash, per a new CNN report.
Housing starts fell 12.4% from June as single-family construction dropped to a 15-month low, even as building permits rose, new Census Bureau data shows.
NAR’s Pending Home Sales Index fell 2.3% in July to its lowest level since January, as the summer’s mortgage-rate spike pulled back contract signings in every U.S. region.
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 β 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.
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