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Office debt returns to Silicon Valley, C-PACE in tow

A fully leased, newly built Mountain View office refinances ahead of maturity with a $147.5 million package pairing C-PACE with senior debt. Trophy-office capital is back, and it arrives in layers.

Nuveen’s $1B C-PACE close is the bank retreat’s replacement capital

The fund’s fourth round pushes cumulative commitments past $3 billion and gives construction borrowers a new permanent layer of assessment-backed financing.

Quincy new-build draws $450,000 a unit

A fully leased 2025-vintage apartment building south of Boston gives small-balance buyers a fresh per-unit comp.

Stotan's Itasca buy shows relationships win O'Hare

The 32,937-sf infill buy in the supply-constrained O'Hare submarket was sourced through Chicago relationships — the kind of deal that never reaches a listing.

Biopharma capital surge builds case for lab leasing rebound

Massachusetts biopharma employment declined in 2025 for the first time in two decades, but the state's VC, IPO, and M&A numbers all ran ahead in the first half of 2026 — a gap that sets up a life-science leasing recovery.

Matterhorn and TPG AG land 16 Chicago buildings in a $628 million shallow-bay test

The 16-building slice joins a 53-property portfolio that is the largest deal yet for each of the three regional operators.

Nebius's $5.75B convertible puts construction risk on bondholders

The Nvidia-backed neocloud's $5.75 billion offering funds construction and GPUs, lifts total convertible debt to $12 billion against $529.8 million of revenue, and asks bondholders to take construction risk.

Hawkins Way's Loeb Hall buy prices dorms at $192,000 a bed

The New School's sale of a 268-bed dormitory gives private capital a new comp for a niche that barely trades.

Aberdeen's £700M hybrid is a lifeline for open-ended property

The proposed merger creates a £700M global hybrid from a £522M UK retail fund and a £229M global portfolio, with a listed-share sleeve to absorb redemptions before direct property has to be sold.

Hotel sales jump 28% as capex-burdened owners hand off

The first-half transaction spike is less a revival in travel demand than a handoff of assets from owners who cannot fund renovations to buyers who can.

Multifamily NOI growth weakens even as expenses cool

Expense growth cooled in Trepp's 2025 medians; revenue slowed by the same amount, so NOI growth weakened and the cost-revenue gap persisted.

Genius Sports lease pushes Vornado tower to 95 percent occupied

A 53,000-square-foot relocation gives Vornado another trophy trade in a Midtown market split between renovated towers and the rest.

Bay Area construction loan carries a bank-and-preferred stack

SummerHill's $123.5 million San Carlos project pairs senior banks with TruAmerica's first preferred equity deal, a structure that may define coastal apartment construction lending.

SJC Ventures sells Doral Marketplace for $83 million

A Dallas senior-living operator assumes the $50 million mortgage, now at Bank of Texas.

Soluna's 397-acre AI campus buy is a wind-power play

The point of the Briscoe County purchase is control of the power supply.

KeyBank signs 15-year renewal and expansion at Elecor Tower

The 15-year lease adds 15,292 square feet and turns an existing Plaza District presence into a true New York headquarters.

Developer breaks ground on $78M mixed-use League City business park

The 290,000-square-foot Lilac Field project starts on spec, betting League City's absorption catches up before the first buildings deliver in early 2027.

Workspace foreclosure sets the clearing price for suburban office

The receiver-run sale of Workspace's $1.23 billion CMBS portfolio will give lenders the comp that three years of appraisals have not produced.

Retail recovery is broad; office is stuck

IRR's 2026 mid-year report finds more than 90% of retail markets in recovery or expansion while office stays evenly split, rewarding block-level underwriting over sector labels.

A Prosper developer plans a $240M mixed-use project without apartments

Bella Prosper wraps a manmade lake, a 139-key hotel, offices, and retail around a bet on business travel in a Texas suburb.

A 1928 Phoenix office tower becomes a $135 million hotel

Maricopa County's 20-year lease gives CivicGroup and Sunflower Development the tenure to underwrite a hotel, not an office.

E.Sun Bank closes a 7MW data center credit in Taipei

The closed credit for Empyrion Digital's TW1 suggests regional lenders are underwriting the building itself as well as hyperscale corporate credits.

DLA Piper and Ascot expand at $140–$150 a foot as Midtown splits

Two full-floor commitments at 1251 Avenue of the Americas show credit tenants still paying trophy pricing while the broader market works through vacancy.

Trammell Crow wraps Sprouts-anchored Phoenix development

A 145,000-square-foot build-to-suit for Sprouts shows which office product is actually trading.

MAA pays nearly $500K per unit for rebuilt Charlotte asset

The fire-damaged Liberty Row rebuild traded as a core asset, and Southeast multifamily pricing has reached replacement cost.

Houston's Eldridge Place sells as a cash-flow trade

Cross Ocean and Fuller's Eldridge Place buy is another sign that office clearing prices are set by occupancy and anchor leases, not replacement cost.

Benderson pays $92 a square foot for three Gulf Coast retail centers

The 400,000-square-foot package prices at $92 a foot, a conventional trade from a buyer that can afford to wait.

Baptist Health pays $65M for flagship-adjacent medical tower

The Jacksonville system's purchase of the 493,000-square-foot Southbank Medical Pavilion values control of the space next door more than the rent roll.

Noble's Noland hire is a bet on the refi wall

The capital markets appointment suggests hospitality owners are preparing for a wave of maturities by staffing up on the debt side, not the deal side.

Urban Story's $350M Chattanooga district hinges on early leases

The 2027 riverfront project tests whether a mid-sized city can support the experiential retail model Chattanooga has never had.

Aberdeen's £700M merger bets on hybrid real estate

A proposed three-fund combination would mix direct property and listed REITs in a single vehicle—a structure that could become a template.

Newmark prices Jersey City construction risk at $370,000 a key

Truist's $277 million construction loan for Urby and Rockpoint's 748-unit waterfront tower returns construction debt to Jersey City at a price that assumes the recovery is already here.

Alterra IOS buys five Atlanta sites in land-assembly push

The 32-acre buy brings its portfolio to 28 properties, but the real trade is scarce industrial ground, not rent growth.

Harrison Street Sells Dublin Student Housing to Commerz Real

A 142-bed new-build changes hands in a rotation that suggests student housing has become a priced, cross-border institutional market.

Seaport's $879-a-foot sale marks a narrow trophy comp

The largest pure-play office sale in Boston in five years resets the benchmark for fully leased towers and leaves the commodity market's clearing price unresolved.

Office debt reopens only after a trade sets the price

Wells Fargo's Workspace foreclosure and Doral refinance show lenders are writing office loans behind equity events, not recovery bets.

KCERA adds $160 million to the credit side of real estate

Across office credit, housing debt, and opportunistic metro debt, the pension's latest commitments extend the pattern of plans underwriting the repricing through yield.

SJCERA puts $75M into high-quality office debt

The pension's check is a measured bet that office credit clears first at the trophy end of the market.

Tariffs Split Construction Into Two Pricing Regimes

The 50% Canadian duties on cement, plywood, and machinery will hit build-to-rent pro formas as contingency while data-center sponsors pass the cost through; lenders will price the gap.

Tavaco pays $28.5M to reset Falls Church office basis

The Los Angeles firm's third Greater Washington office buy runs roughly 35% below the seller's 2016 price.

Landmark delivers 1,261-bed USC community, built in-house

The private developer’s second Los Angeles ground-up opening leaves it holding three student properties around one campus — a bet on owning a USC sub-market rather than spreading across the city.

Defense tech rewrites the South Bay industrial underwrite

Record Pentagon contracts and defense-tech tenants are turning South Bay warehouses into military infrastructure, and the region's industrial market is starting to underwrite accordingly.

SENTRE pays $26.6M for Carlsbad industrial leased to Glanbia

A Glanbia hub since 2001, the 104,298-square-foot building sold at roughly $255 a foot.

Newmark places $277M construction loan on Urby's 748-unit Jersey City tower

The Truist-backed financing prices waterfront multifamily at $370,000 a unit, a comp that will shape the next Jersey City underwriting.

Kennedy Wilson hires Jamison's Jaime Lee to lead global capital push

The former Jamison CEO will raise capital for a $37 billion platform built on the bet that Los Angeles housing lessons travel.

Office debt returns only after the trade prices

A $72.6 million Barings loan on a Needham office campus shows how lenders are re-entering office behind equity, after the trade has priced.

Waterford breaks ground on 75-unit Milpitas affordable project

The project uses 4% low-income housing tax credits and private activity bonds, with Pacific Housing Inc. providing on-site services.

Capitol Hill SEDU sale prices 57 units at $316,000 a key

A 57-unit building of 297-square-foot efficiencies near Amazon and Google sold for roughly $316,000 a unit, a cash-flow wager on small units in a supply-constrained submarket.

Bonaventure buys Chevy Chase stake, Landmark stays partner

The non-traded REIT takes asset management at the 111-unit Crescent while the original developer keeps an ownership stake.

Revolution Medicines nears 700K-sf lease at former Google hub

A pre-launch drug bet would more than double the biotech's Redwood City footprint and reset the comp for vacant Peninsula tech campuses.

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