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INDUS Realty Trust acquires five-building Houston industrial portfolio

Park 845 Crossing spans 757,325 square feet at I-45/Beltway 8. It was 99 percent leased when INDUS took ownership.

Related Group starts 494-home remake of Boca Raton's Office Depot campus

Broken Sound Residences is the first step in a 28-acre redo of the former Office Depot campus.

Asia Pacific office leasing narrows to a three-market core

Colliers' first-half data shows occupier demand concentrating in India, China and Japan as new supply drops 37 percent.

Data center costs jump 21% per megawatt

Cushman & Wakefield's 2026 cost guide shows the increase squeezing developers, lenders, and allocators.

REDICO and One Orchard launch InfraMed Properties, a medical outpatient platform

The platform targets more than $1 billion in medical outpatient properties. It starts with a 25-property portfolio.

Peachtree passes $525 million in DSTs with hotel and industrial deals

Its 14th and 15th DST offerings put a Port Canaveral hotel beside a Cummins-leased St. Louis warehouse.

I Squared backs edge data center platform with up to $1B

Saragon launches with 10 former Cogent facilities and a nine-market footprint to chase colocation and AI inference demand.

Lincoln, Saber-Hightower and Waterfall close on $450M tri-state portfolio

The mixed-asset deal covers 4 million square feet of existing properties and prime development sites.

Thor Equities to Buy ESRT's 1359 Broadway for $218M

The Midtown tower, 95 percent occupied, goes for $7 million under its asking price in Joe Sitt's latest office purchase.

Zar Properties closes on NoHo mixed-use buildings for $21M

A five-decade family hold in NoHo sells to Zar Properties after three competing bids and a 30-day close.

Kennedy Wilson hires Jamison CEO Jaime Lee for capital markets

Jaime Lee, who ran Los Angeles-based Jamison, will lead capital formation as Kennedy Wilson expands its investment management platform.

Vivmark must sell Boston towers under AG antitrust deal

The AG's buyer-approval power makes the forced sale a test of how regulators police the combined landlord.

Cottonwood provides $50M mezzanine to finish Oasis tower

Private credit keeps financing Florida condo construction, even with a $70 million lender lawsuit in the same corridor.

Commercial property sales jump 30% in first half

Green Street's mid-year broker rankings show $25M-and-up trades climbing 29.9% despite macro risks, with brokered volume up even more.

NAA: ROAD Act steers institutional capital to build-to-rent

The apartment trade group's research chief says the new federal housing law points institutions toward new supply.

Ohio race turns data center politics into capital risk

The NRSC warns that a Husted loss would halt the next project. For private real estate investors, that is a change in the price of approval risk.

Jadian Capital pays $167M for Staten Island IOS site

The $167 million Staten Island sale gives industrial outdoor storage its second public benchmark in a week, after the sector's record debt refinancing.

A Corona del Mar retail strip sells $700,000 above asking

The $700,000 over-ask on a small Corona del Mar strip reflects what private local investors will pay for scarce retail with parking.

Apollo funds $74.5M Stamford office-to-condo conversion

Walker & Dunlop arranged the acquisition-and-redevelopment loan for 63 waterfront residences, pricing the deal at roughly $1.18 million per residence.

Lincoln venture pays $450M for Tri-State portfolio anchored by IBM-era campus

The $450 million deal combines income-producing properties with a 270-acre IBM-era campus whose unused power capacity is the point.

Stockbridge pays $767,000 a unit for Potrero Hill apartments

The $132 million purchase gives San Francisco apartment investors a fresh price benchmark at the top of an AI-driven cycle.

TJX lifts long-term store target to 7,500

The new ceiling and a faster 2027 opening pace give owners and lenders a forward occupancy number to underwrite against.

Starwood and Realterm set a record for industrial outdoor storage debt

The $672 million refinancing gives industrial outdoor storage a benchmark of its own.

Acquisition debt yields barely moved as CMBS refinancing repriced sharply

Trepp's loan-level review of the 2021-22 vintages finds acquisition debt yields held steady even as refinance yields jumped and cap rates compressed.

Finmarc pays $77.5M for Tysons towers in a Northern Virginia office bet

The Bethesda firm is funding the deal with dispositions and says another $250M-$300M of buying is coming.

Nicola Wealth offloads fully leased Chandler business park

Cushman & Wakefield arranged the sale of the two Class A buildings; buyer and price were not disclosed.

Apartment Concessions Ease as Supply Pipeline Shrinks

For the second straight month, fewer apartments are carrying concessions. First-half construction starts hit their lowest level since 2012, and landlords are beginning to reclaim pricing power.

AI job growth is redrawing office demand in just seven cities

The 45 percent growth in AI jobs is concentrating office demand in four U.S. metros and three Canadian ones.

Creation, Crow Holdings Break Ground on 700K-SF Avondale Campus

The 38-acre industrial project pairs 36-foot clear heights with pickleball courts in a bet on advanced manufacturing tenants.

Credit Agricole lends $125M for Miami Design District project

A bank-led syndicate is funding the eight-story office-and-retail building, and the developers broke ground right after closing.

Triple net lease acquisition widens buyer's reach in North America and Europe

An acquirer is adding a net-lease platform on both sides of the Atlantic in a deal reported without price terms.

Trammell Crow, Daiwa House break ground on Houston spec Phase II

Phase I's owner-occupant sales justify a speculative second phase, pushing the Fort Bend County venture past 2 million square feet.

Urban Standard lends $26.5M against Vail Valley land for 440 units

A four-year land loan closes for 440 units of mountain-town workforce housing.

Cove Capital raises $7.1M for Shreveport retail DST

Cove Capital is raising $7.1 million through a debt-free DST for a fully leased Shreveport retail center priced below replacement cost.

Knightvest buys Round Rock portfolio, plans a rebrand

The three Silicon Hills communities get renovations and new names.

PCCP and RPM Living buy a 358-unit Arlington apartment community

A 2021-built North Arlington property near the sports and entertainment district changes hands from its developer to an institutional joint venture.

Office conviction climbs in SitusAMC survey

Investor preference for office hit 11 percent in the second quarter, up from 4 percent in early 2025, as cap-rate tightening backs the shift.

H&R REIT breakup splits assets among five buyers

GO Residential leads a $4.8B five-way deal that sends apartments, industrial and noncore assets to separate owners.

For rent-stabilized New York, Article XI is Tylenol, not the cure

A 40-year property-tax break can put losing rent-stabilized buildings back in the black, while the rent rules that drove the losses remain untouched.

Community banks' multifamily retreat gives private credit an opening

Trepp's Q2 review shows six of ten community banks running off multifamily loans while Merchants and Columbia buy — an opening for private lenders.

Federal subpoena lands on Fermi's 17-GW data center project

The Matador campus now carries legal, financial, and delivery risk at once.

Vivmark begins trading as largest U.S. apartment REIT

The $70 billion combined company launches Tuesday with a $125 million synergy target over 18 months.

Bally's going-concern warning pressures casino construction lenders

The operator's SEC filing lays out the covenant and cash hurdles behind its Chicago and Bronx casino projects.

United Hampshire REIT sells Quincy BJ's for $34M

The sale trims leverage to 35.9% and frees cash for debt paydowns and reinvestment.

Swiss landlord Varia hands Brookfield 90% of a $694M portfolio

The deal trims Varia's exposure to older assets and gives Brookfield scale at a 9.5% discount to appraisal.

Judge clears Centre Square sale to PMC, Dean Adler

The $70 million deal prices the 1.8 million-square-foot Philadelphia complex at less than a fifth of its remaining CMBS debt.

Avison Young returns to creditors for second recapitalization in two years

The Toronto brokerage cuts debt and preferred equity by nearly 70%, brings lenders into common equity and adds an acquisitions credit line.

Invesco writes bigger floating-rate loans as $3 trillion maturity cycle begins

Originations jumped 112% to $3.2 billion. The loan count barely moved.

S3 Capital lends $35M for Casa Princeton's final phase

Private capital is underwriting the final phase of a 374-unit Florida multifamily community.

Capital One sues S2 Capital's Everett for $11.5M guaranty

The claim against S2 Capital's Scott Everett shows how capped personal guarantees are becoming lenders' last recovery in multifamily defaults.

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