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First-half home sales in the Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos area rose 4.8% to 15,698 while the median price fell 2.4% to $425,000, according to Unlock MLS. June pending sales climbed 13.2%, and active listings within the city of Austin fell 22.1% to 4,665. Sales up, prices down, inventory sharply lower — that combination describes a market … Read more
Redfin data shows pending home sales dropped 3.7% in a week, the steepest decline since 2022, as mortgage rates hit nearly a year-high and sellers offer more concessions.
CoStar Group forecasts a turning point for U.S. industrial real estate, with net absorption overtaking new supply by late 2027 as construction slows and rent growth firms.
Healthpeak Properties raised full-year guidance after senior housing same-store NOI grew 19.2% in the second quarter, even as its life science lab segment continued to lag.
Once the repairs are done, the clutter is gone, and the home is clean, styling is what turns an average listing into a memorable one. This is the part of staging most people picture — furniture, art, accessories — and it is where a property either comes alive in photos or disappears into the scroll. … Read more
Virginia’s State Corporation Commission will require data centers to pay for transmission infrastructure built for their facilities, following Gov. Spanberger’s push to shield ratepayers from rising costs.
Zillow Group is expanding CFO Jeremy Hofmann’s role to also cover operations and naming Cassandra Knight as its first chief legal and policy officer, a day after cutting 500 jobs.
Marcus & Millichap posted 17.8% revenue growth and a return to profitability in the second quarter as commercial real estate sales and financing activity picked up.
Centric Development and Sage Equities sold a 611-unit, five-property Class A senior housing portfolio in the Atlanta suburbs for $147 million in an all-cash deal arranged by JLL.
Realtors Property Resource, NAR’s data and technology subsidiary, elevated two longtime executives to newly created chief strategy officer and chief product officer roles.
The Ardent Companies launched a continuation vehicle backed by StepStone Group to recapitalize an eight-property, 742,855-square-foot Class A self-storage portfolio across seven states.
Apollo Global Management is investing $1.02 billion in a joint venture with Starwood Real Estate Income Trust covering roughly 120 affordable housing properties, easing SREIT’s liquidity pressure.
Realtor.com identifies Milwaukee, Detroit and other older industrial cities as best positioned to benefit from a new law tying CDBG grants to local homebuilding.
U-Haul Holding Company grew self-storage revenue 6.8% and expanded its owned storage footprint to 1,642 locations, even as occupancy softened and overall profit declined.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren sent a nine-page letter to Compass CEO Robert Reffkin and MRED CEO Rebecca Jensen warning their private-listings partnership risks a ‘two-tiered housing market’ and civil rights violations, adding Senate scrutiny to an already bipartisan congressional probe.
A federal judge in Chicago granted final approval to $28.5 million in combined settlements from RE/MAX and Keller Williams in the Batton 1 homebuyer commission lawsuit, with no class objections or opt-outs and claims due Aug. 25.
National apartment rents rose for a fifth straight month in July, with Sun Belt markets that were hit hardest by new supply showing early signs of recovery, according to Yardi Matrix’s latest national multifamily report.
New analysis from BloombergNEF puts a dollar figure on Texas’s data center interconnection freeze: up to $15 billion in at-risk revenue and a possible three-month delay for nearly 50 gigawatts of capacity, with the state’s Batch Zero fast-track process the likely real target.
The U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, and the prior two months were revised sharply lower, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Aug. 7. The unemployment rate held at 4.1%, but the combination of a payroll decline and steep downward revisions points to a labor market that is cooling faster than headline numbers first … Read more
Dream Finders Homes has agreed to acquire Beazer Homes in an all-cash deal worth about $2.2 billion, the companies announced Aug. 6, ending a monthslong pursuit that started as a hostile bid and closes as a unanimously approved merger creating the nation’s sixth-largest listed homebuilder. Under the agreement, Beazer shareholders will receive $33.50 in cash … Read more
Rocket Companies posted its most profitable quarter in four years even as its chief executive described the spring housing market as one of the toughest in years, the Detroit-based mortgage lender announced Aug. 6. The company reported second-quarter net revenue of $2.78 billion and adjusted revenue of $2.76 billion for the period ended June 30, … Read more
CareTrust REIT closed roughly $291 million in new healthcare property deals over the past week, pushing its 2026 investment total to approximately $1.5 billion, the real estate investment trust announced Aug. 6. The pace underscores how aggressively the skilled-nursing and senior-housing REIT has been deploying capital across both the U.S. and U.K. this year. The … Read more
Zillow Group’s revenue climbed 18% to $772 million in the second quarter, topping the high end of its own guidance, even as the company posted a small net loss and saw site traffic decline for a second straight quarter, the company reported Aug. 5. The results land one day after Zillow disclosed cutting more than … Read more
Altus Group has acquired Valos, a UK-based platform that automates the property valuation and lending workflow for commercial real estate, the Toronto-listed real estate intelligence firm announced Aug. 6. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Valos, founded in 2020 by CEO Alex Kountourides, connects valuation firms and mortgage lenders on a single platform … Read more
Barry Gosin, who has run Newmark Group for nearly 47 years, will step down as chief executive at the end of this year, the commercial real estate advisory firm announced Aug. 7. Gosin, who became CEO in 1979, will leave the role effective Dec. 31, 2026, but will remain with the company as Chairman of … Read more
TPG AG U.S. Real Estate and Redfearn Capital have acquired a 53-building industrial portfolio for $628 million, the companies announced, adding 5.4 million square feet of shallow-bay logistics and manufacturing space concentrated in fast-growing Southeast markets. The portfolio, purchased from seller DRA Advisors, is roughly 87% occupied and spans seven states: Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, … Read more
Starwood Property Trust’s GAAP net income fell 95% in the second quarter, dropping to $6.6 million from $129.8 million a year earlier, even as the commercial mortgage REIT’s preferred profitability measure held essentially flat, the company reported for the quarter ended June 30. GAAP earnings per diluted share came in at 1 cent, down from … Read more
RE/MAX Holdings swung to a $4.3 million net loss in the second quarter as U.S. agent count kept shrinking, the franchisor reported Aug. 6, just over a week before shareholders vote on the company’s pending merger with The Real Brokerage. The loss compares with net income of $4.7 million in the same quarter last year, … Read more
American Healthcare REIT raised its full-year guidance after posting its tenth consecutive quarter of double-digit same-store net operating income growth, the healthcare and senior housing REIT disclosed Aug. 6 in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Total portfolio same-store NOI grew 13.2% in the second quarter compared with a year earlier, extending a … Read more
Proptech startups raised a reported $650.4 million across 30 financing events in June, according to CRETI. The analysis emphasizes investor preference for specialized software and operational use cases over broad, all-purpose platforms. Funding totals depend on CRETI’s inclusion criteria and disclosed deal values; large individual rounds should be verified against company or investor announcements. Key … Read more
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