The latest real estate news, market data, and expert insight from RealtyWire.
Saronic Technologies will build a $3 billion-plus autonomous vessel shipyard at the Port of Brownsville, Texas, with the company projecting up to 10,000 jobs over the next decade.
Seniors housing and care M&A activity totaled nearly $3.9 billion in the second quarter of 2026, with assisted living properties accounting for the largest share of deals, according to LevinPro LTC data.
Public Storage has closed its all-stock acquisition of National Storage Affiliates, a deal valued at roughly $10.5 billion when announced in March, creating a combined company of more than 4,500 self-storage properties.
A historic 1936 mansion in Glencoe, Ill., built for a Pabst Brewing executive, sold for $17.5 million, the highest price paid for a Chicago-area home so far in 2026.
Florida recorded the nation’s highest foreclosure rate in the first half of 2026, with one in every 373 homes filed on, as U.S. foreclosure activity climbed 21% year over year, ATTOM reported.
Gov. Gavin Newsom announced $109.6 million in Proposition 1 funding for 278 permanent supportive homes statewide, including 103 units reserved for veterans, through California’s Homekey+ program.
Bridge Logistics Properties acquired a 782,775-square-foot Class A distribution facility in Frederickson, Wash., fully leased to Harbor Freight Tools, marking its largest Seattle-Tacoma area purchase to date.
Hut 8 Corp. says it has fully leased its 1-gigawatt Beacon Point campus in Nueces County, Texas, after a second $9.8 billion lease brought total contracted value to $19.6 billion.
Colliers’ Q2 2026 Phoenix industrial market report shows vacancy falling to 8.7% as net absorption outpaces new supply, though the Southeast Valley submarket remains the metro’s weak spot.
Voice cloning lets fraudsters confirm fake wire instructions in your agent’s exact voice. Why callbacks no longer protect closings β and what does.
Google has recommitted to roughly 2.1 million square feet of office space in Sunnyvale, renewing leases at Moffett Place and Moffett Gateway in a reversal of its recent space-cutting strategy.
LandBridge and PowerBridge have signed a lease development agreement for a 2-gigawatt data center campus on roughly 3,400 acres in Reeves County, Texas, near the Waha natural gas hub.
OpenAI said it will invest $20 billion in a 3.2-gigawatt data center campus in Effingham County, Georgia, its first self-designed, self-built data center project.
PNC, Bank of America, U.S. Bancorp and Truist all reported commercial real estate loan growth in the second quarter of 2026, extending a rebound from a multi-year pullback, according to bank earnings disclosures and Fed lending survey data.
Only 3,400 multifamily units are expected to be added to the Las Vegas Valley’s apartment stock in 2026, the lowest annual total since 2021, as tighter lending cools a pandemic-era building boom.
NMHC’s July Quarterly Survey of Apartment Market Conditions shows debt and equity financing worsening and sales volume pulling back, even as market tightness improves nationally.
National Equity Fund has acquired 32 affordable housing properties from St. Louis Equity Fund in a transaction with an equity value of more than $200 million, preserving nearly 2,000 homes in the St. Louis region.
Chicago’s industrial vacancy rate climbed to 5.06% in the second quarter, according to Colliers, as absorption slowed and previously leased warehouse space returned to the market.
Columbia County, Georgia officials announced Thursday that Google will be the sole end user and operator of an 8 million-square-foot, 23-building data center campus in Appling, part of a deal tied to a Ratepayer Protection Pledge and local tax relief plans.
Howard Hanna Real Estate Services is entering Northern New England, announcing a partnership to acquire Portside Real Estate Group, the brokerage it calls Maine’s top independent firm, extending its footprint to 18 states.
Manhattan’s median rent hit a record $5,295 in June 2026, up 8% year-over-year, according to The Corcoran Group’s June market report, as listings fell to a three-year low.
Coldwell Banker Warburg, Coldwell Banker’s largest New York City franchise, is folding into Compass and will operate as “Warburg at Compass,” The Real Deal reports, following Compass’s completed acquisition of parent company Anywhere Real Estate.
Fourteen Greenwich sales above $10 million by mid-June β plus six pending and a private $27.8M deal β put the trophy market on a near-record pace.
New FHA-backed mortgage defaults fell 15% year over year in June, the largest annual decline in more than four years, even as overall delinquencies and foreclosure activity ticked higher, ICE Mortgage Technology reports.
ING Capital provided a fully underwritten $268 million acquisition facility to EQT Real Estate’s Core Plus Fund IV for an 11-property, 2.8 million-square-foot logistics portfolio across six U.S. markets.
Digital Realty Trust topped Wall Street estimates in the second quarter of 2026 and raised its full-year guidance, citing strong leasing tied to AI-driven data center demand, according to its SEC-filed earnings release.
Opus has broken ground on Canal Crossing Commerce Center, an 898,500-square-foot, three-building speculative industrial park near Columbus, Ohio, targeting a June 2027 completion with no tenants yet signed.
Berkshire Hathaway has closed its $8.5 billion acquisition of Taylor Morrison, merging the homebuilder with Berkshire’s Clayton Properties Group to form the nation’s fourth-largest homebuilding operation.
Keller Williams named five leaders, including a new head of divisions and co-heads of U.S. growth and attraction, in a leadership reshuffle aimed at accelerating agent growth and commercial expansion.
Miami-Dade recorded 24 home sales above $30 million in the first half of 2026, nearly double last year’s pace, overtaking New York and the Bay Area in ultra-luxury deal volume as wealthy buyers migrate to Florida, according to data from Analytics Miami cited by Bloomberg.
Get expert insights, market updates, and new opportunities delivered to your inbox.