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A Staten Island judge temporarily blocked New York City’s enforcement of its new pied-a-terre tax on luxury second homes, but the city’s automatic appeal kept the rollout in force pending an Aug. 31 hearing, as brokers report owners shifting high-value units into the rental market.
Douglas Elliman’s second-quarter net loss narrowed to $2.7 million as the luxury brokerage launched an AI transformation, including a new intelligence platform called Elius built with Google Cloud.
All seven residential mortgage categories saw weaker demand in Q2 2026 even as lending standards mostly held steady, new Federal Reserve survey data analyzed by NAHB shows, with subprime the lone category still tightening.
The mall and outlet REIT lifted its full-year 2026 Real Estate FFO outlook to $13.20-$13.30 per share after occupancy held at 96% and retailer sales per square foot jumped nearly 14%.
New Realtor.com research finds data centers have spread into more rural, lower-income communities and now sit near 1.5% of home sales nationwide, but the company’s economists found no statistically significant hit to nearby home prices in the two years after a center opens.
WS Development and PSP Investments have secured a $660 million refinancing loan for One Boston Wharf, a fully leased, 708,590-square-foot office tower in Boston, Mass.’s Seaport District, retiring the project’s 2021 construction debt.
H&R REIT has agreed to sell 27 Sunbelt and New York properties to GO Residential REIT and split its remaining assets among Blackstone Real Estate and other partners in a $6.7 billion transaction expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2026.
Real Capital Solutions has launched the RCS Contrarian Office Fund, targeting $350 million to buy distressed Class A and B office buildings, with CEO Marcel Arsenault anchoring the vehicle with a $50 million personal commitment.
CrossCountry Intermediate HoldCo priced $750 million of 7.750% senior notes due 2031, the third such offering in under a year aimed at paying down CCM’s mortgage servicing rights credit line.
A staff-level permit, not a City Council vote, cleared Amazon’s $2 billion data center campus in Gilroy, California. Decades-old industrial zoning meant no public hearing was legally required.
Meta is committing $1 billion to a new fund supporting teachers, first responders and infrastructure in the U.S. communities that host its data centers, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Monday.
U.S. mortgage holders held a record $18 trillion in home equity as of the second quarter, even as delinquencies and active foreclosures climbed to their highest levels in years, according to ICE’s August Mortgage Monitor report.
Mortgage rates could swing this week depending on Wednesday’s Consumer Price Index report, which Redfin economists say could decisively shift the odds ahead of the Federal Reserve’s Sept. 16 meeting.
Shores, a 544-unit waterfront apartment community in Marina del Rey, California, has sold for $170 million to affiliates of Jackson Square Properties, one of the largest multifamily transactions in Los Angeles County this year.
Wage growth for residential building workers slowed to 1.0% in June, with inflation-adjusted pay down 2.4% year over year, as softer construction activity weighs on labor demand, NAHB finds.
TPG Mortgage Investment Trust will acquire Cherry Hill Mortgage Investment Corp. in a stock-and-cash deal valued at $117.5 million, creating a combined residential mortgage REIT with about $9 billion in assets.
Canyon Partners Real Estate closed its latest opportunistic fund at about $570 million, above its $500 million target, aiming at distressed, value-add and mid-construction real estate deals.
JBG SMITH reported a $59.2 million second-quarter net loss and disclosed it has not booked a liability for a $356.1 million court judgment tied to the Wardman Tower condominium case, which it plans to appeal.
Sonida Senior Living closed a $372.5 million term loan with Ally Bank, retiring the remaining bridge debt from its CNL Healthcare Properties acquisition, as Q2 revenue more than doubled to $207.6 million.
Wentworth Institute of Technology is building a $200 million, 18-story residence hall in Boston to house its entire first-year class, developed by Balfour Beatty Campus Solutions and financed through MassDevelopment.
HD Hyundai Heavy Industries signed a $675.6 million contract with Corban Energy Group to supply 1,000 megawatts of generator capacity for a U.S. data center, its largest power-generation order to date.
Medical Properties Trust narrowed its second-quarter net loss to $2.6 million and announced a $2.4 billion note offering to repay 2026 and 2027 debt as the hospital REIT continues rebuilding its balance sheet.
Peabody, Mass., a Boston-area suburb, ranked No. 1 on Realtor.com’s 2026 Hottest ZIP Codes report, with listings drawing four times the national average traffic and selling in just 20 days.
Ryman Hospitality Properties agreed to buy the 1,592-room Grande Lakes Orlando resort, including a JW Marriott and its first Ritz-Carlton, for $1.38 billion from Trinity Investments.
Ferguson Enterprises raised its full-year guidance after Q2 net sales rose 4.6% to $8.8 billion, with non-residential building-product sales up 8% and residential sales returning to growth.
California, Texas and Florida account for more than a fifth of U.S. remodeling spending, NAHB’s latest state-level data shows, even as national remodeling activity declined for a third straight quarter.
U.S. office net absorption reached a positive 16.9 million square feet in the second quarter, extending occupancy gains to seven consecutive quarters, according to Colliers. Cumulative positive absorption over the prior two years totaled 44.0 million square feet. Comparing those two figures reveals something the headline does not. Key facts The recovery is accelerating, not … Read more
Buyers tour every inch of a home — including the laundry room, the closets, and the garage — so every space needs a plan. Here is my room-by-room staging guide, starting where buyers start: the curb. Curb appeal and the front entrance The exterior sets expectations for everything inside. Trim the hedges, refresh the mulch, … Read more
The typical U.S. home seller realized a 44.1% return in the first quarter of 2026, down from 47.2% in the fourth quarter of 2025 and 50.2% a year earlier, according to ATTOM. The national median sale price held at $360,000, unchanged from the prior quarter. Sellers are still making substantial money. They are simply making … Read more
A Bel Air estate at 11005 Bellagio Place has listed for $88 million, according to The Real Deal. The property spans more than 18,000 square feet on 1.7 acres. Luxford Group purchased the vacant site for $14.5 million in 2015 and completed the house in 2023. The home previously hosted a Louis Vuitton exhibit, per … Read more
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