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The Sectors Desk 29 stories this week · 254 total

A fading Houston mall prices industrial land at $125 a foot

Lincoln and New York Life will spend $150 million to turn 80 acres of failed retail into 1.2 million square feet of warehouse, a conversion whose two-year gap between teardown and first delivery rests on a city tax district.
September 23

Harrison Street staffs the exit side of its senior housing book

A three-person liftout from PGIM gives the $110 billion manager the asset management depth that matters when a portfolio has decisions pending rather than acquisitions to make.
September 22

Suntec's $815m Australian office sale puts its appraisals to the test

Two wholly owned Sydney buildings and a half-stake in Melbourne's Olderfleet go to market to cut borrowing costs, handing Australian office its first real pricing test since the Dec. 31 appraisals.
September 22

Franchisees are building Flex's recovery, and carrying its risk

The location count keeps compounding at the sub-scale end of coworking, where the risk is quietly landing.
September 21

Two AI tenants fill a Flatiron building, and the bid stays narrow

Full-floor leases at 61 W. 23rd St. bring the repositioned Manhattan building to occupancy without making AI tenants a broad recovery story.
September 21

AI leasing arrives one Flatiron floor at a time

Two 8,367-square-foot leases at 61 West 23rd Street show what AI demand looks like at the small end of Midtown South, where a 2016 basis does the work a rent roll cannot.
September 21

Hanover's Lehigh Valley debut is its second new market in a month

The 358,234-square-foot Savage Road build is the firm's second ground-up entry into a new market in 27 days, and the payoff rests on the first lease signed.
September 21

New York's New Hurdle for Data Center Capital Is Disclosure

The moratorium has an expiry date; the reporting regime announced Monday does not, and that is the half a sponsor has to underwrite.
September 21

The office freeze is a financing verdict

A stalled pipeline will set the terms of every large lease expiring after 2028, and the effect will hit renewals before it hits rents.
September 21

Industrial's construction freeze is thawing at the small end

Cushman & Wakefield's cost guide shows small industrial projects inflating fastest at $144 per square foot, putting the infill scarcity premium under the one pressure owners cannot underwrite away.
September 21

Hawley's bill reprices the marginal opportunity zone data center

The Opportunity Zone tax break mattered to data centers mostly at the margin; Hawley's bill makes that margin a political variable.
September 21

Multifamily's coming shortage is a financing problem, not a demand one

A 475,000-unit pipeline and 95.5% occupancy set up the 2028-29 supply gap; the sponsors who capture it are the ones whose capital can wait.
September 21

Data center power bill stalls; the states already had the rule

Congress's retreat leaves the cost-allocation fight to the statehouses, where data center underwriting now prices regulatory risk project by project.
September 18

A $116 million Sedona resort breaks ground at $1.66 million a key

Seventy keys against $116 million is a rate bet, which is why the villa layout and the amenity buildings matter more than the shovel.
September 18

Boerne's 324 units test the operator-and-location thesis

Endura's Hill Country groundbreaking carries the standard garden amenity list and a HUD 221(d)(4) loan, leaving the absorption question to the property manager and the site.
September 18

A foundation is setting a floor under downtown San Diego offices

Civic capital can hold a landmark at a basis no leveraged sponsor will touch, but patience is not absorption.
September 18

Vacant for a decade, now 362 fully leased apartments

BTI and Bridge bought the dirt cheap and let a bank loan carry the build, a template that only works while cheap infill sites exist.
September 18

Disney's return-to-office mandate won't move office leasing yet

The mandate names days, not buildings, and the tenants enforcing it are cutting payroll; the leasing mark comes at expiration, and it likely lands lower.
September 18

June's construction drop was a data center print, not a slowdown

Nine sub-50 readings in ten months from the design pipeline mean the supply freeze holding up non-data-center assets has another year to run.
September 18

August's job growth is a property-type read

The month's hiring concentrated in food services, government and health care, the payrolls behind Class C rent rather than the young-professional household formation that underwrites new supply.
September 18

Boston office gets duration; it still needs a trade

Thirty-two leases with a weighted average term above ten years give International Place the cash-flow case a lender can underwrite; the market still has no mark on the asset.
September 17

Elecor bets a lobby and two amenity floors can move 1633 Broadway up-market

The spend puts Elecor on the capex side of Midtown's trophy-versus-commodity split, where the rent spread, not the amenity count, settles the wager.
September 17

Seefried clears 35 acres by O'Hare for industrial

Demolition is done and delivery is set for the second quarter of 2027, with the land's next use worth more than the offices it replaced.
September 17

AI's power problem just leased a 204,000-square-foot warehouse

Aalo Atomics' $25 million Georgetown conversion puts the power buildout in the industrial tenant mix, on a schedule that trails the load it is meant to supply.
September 17

Macerich adds a hotel to FlatIron Crossing's mixed-use bet

A 160,000-square-foot Dick's will be nearly twice the size of the mall's entire remaining retail offering—which is where this program's economics actually sit.
September 17

Asia Pacific office demand is real, and it is premium

Half of APAC occupiers plan to grow, but the survey prices buildings rather than the office index.
September 17

Industrial tenants are buying freight position, not warehouse term

Transportation eats 45 to 70 percent of logistics cost while rent runs 3 to 6, and that gap is turning the short-term industrial lease into the sector's most underpriced product.
September 17

Amazon's next warehouses will be small, close in, and hard to build

Project Mercury would take the retailer from about 85 same-day facilities to more than 1,000 by 2031, moving the marginal dollar of Amazon demand onto a format the industrial pipeline serves least well.
September 16

Grid access is now the gate for data center capital

At a record 37.7 gigawatts under construction across the Americas, the siting decision has become a power decision, and the largest proposed developments are going where the grid is.
September 16

Border freight stalls, and industrial's trade leg wobbles

Truck activity on the northern border has flattened to early-2021 levels and is dragging on logistics demand in both countries; corridor warehouses are underwritten on throughput as much as on consumption.
September 16

IMG renews at 304 Park, keeping 69% of its peak space

The five-year deal covers 90,202 square feet of a 130,655-square-foot footprint, leaving SL Green to test what Midtown South pays for the rest.
September 16

Dermody's Chicago infill project has to out-earn its own demolition

The 357,619-square-foot Berkeley redevelopment is a recycled site in one of the metro's best trucking positions, and the first lease rate will tell Chicago whether teardown-and-rebuild is a trade or a toll.
September 16

Embrey trades height for 296 units in Alamo Heights

A land lease and an entitlement waiver do the work in a submarket that normally caps apartment buildings at three stories.
September 16

A one-dollar rent decline hides a two-speed apartment market

Thirty-one of the top 50 markets cut rents in August while San Francisco grew at 11.9 percent; the national average flattens both.
September 16

The data center bottleneck moves to the substation

A pipeline nearly six times the installed base is being underwritten as a leasing story while the real constraint is a wire and a date.
September 16

NOI execution is a sponsor's edge; it can't fix the entry price

Lubeck's blocking-and-tackling case tells allocators what to screen for, and quietly concedes the part of the return no operator controls.
September 16

Related starts leasing 336 rentals that will price the rest of Tuxedo Reserve

The first rent roll is the comp set for the phases Related has yet to build on the 1,200-acre site.
September 15
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