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The Wrap Desk 10 stories this week · 55 total

Brixmor and Everview agree to take Slate Grocery REIT private at $13 a unit

The all-cash offer values the grocery-anchored landlord at $2.3 billion, with Brixmor taking 23 centers and a joint venture taking the other 92.
September 29

Crescent Heights files 1,030-unit Live Local plan for Miami's Edgewater

The proposal reserves 412 apartments at up to 120 percent of area median income and seeks a 50 percent parking reduction after multifamily starts fell nearly 22 percent in August.
September 28

Oracle's rent notice and PJM's curtailment plan test who carries grid risk

A mutual-consent force majeure clause turns an $18 billion data-center debt stack into a negotiation over when the rent stops.
September 28

Retail's clearing price is now an anchor commitment

A half-fund anchor, $72.3 million of mezzanine and an undisclosed all-cash sale are the week's retail marks; whole-asset comps have stopped printing.
September 25

The easiest office conversion never had a tenant to move

Two Northwind construction loans totaling $427 million test partial conversion as a debt-stack trade before it is a design one.
September 25

Data-center capital now prices a Senate vote

Blue Owl's $25 billion income bid and the build-out ask now trade on a Senate calendar.
September 25

Industrial capital is buying deal access, not warehouses

A partnership, a forward purchase, a bridge and a shovel showed up in the same week's industrial coverage — four ways of paying for sourcing while the bid for stabilized product sat where it was.
September 24

Office prices move to occupied square feet

San Francisco's 65%-leased print, Dallas's 63% trade, and Houston's 70.6% offering are pricing occupied rent rolls, not building area, and taking vacancy as a free option.
September 24

Harrison Street hires the bench that makes a senior housing platform work

Four PGIM hires in two weeks give Harrison Street an operating bench that an operator acquisition would have cost a control premium to obtain.
September 22

A Forced Sale Sets the Price of Gated NAV

DWS's wind-down will turn appraisal marks into observable trades, and the liquidation comps become the reference the industry has avoided.
September 22

The data-center trade now runs on volts

A week of announced pairings puts grid and energy assets at the center of digital infrastructure capital, leaving traditional real estate waiting behind the queue.
September 21

The debt stack now reports what property prices won't

Assumable coupons and advance rates are producing the marks that a market of undisclosed sales has stopped publishing.
September 21

Warsh's quarter point sorts CRE owners faster than it reprices them

With a second hike signaled before year-end, the equity check decides who keeps a maturing deal and who cannot.
September 20

Industrial's 5.5% print, and the mark it dodges

Rexford's rent-reset portfolio gives industrial its first public yield, and the $6.90 billion hard wall shows how many owners would rather extend than print.
September 18

Three-year loans for earned income, equity for the forecast

A policy rate held at 4.1% through next year leaves the 2027 refinancing wall to short bank paper and whoever can write an equity check.
September 17

At 5%, the 10-year decides who gets to wait

The real yield, at 2.6%, is what reprices property — and it favors capital with a clock long enough to wait out a refinancing.
September 16

Private credit now underwrites the lease-up itself

HPS, Dwight and Mesa West are financing the window before income arrives, and the first real price surfaces only at the extension.
September 16

The bond market's 72-basis-point data-center warning

Debt has begun pricing construction and concentration risk in data centers; equity has not, and the next issuance wave will force the two to converge.
September 15

Data center IPOs are selling the construction curve

Three same-day filings from DayOne, SB Energy and Switch test whether public equity will pay infrastructure-style multiples for pipelines still clearing permits, power and financing—and hand private data center marks a daily comp.
September 14

The block is multifamily's clearing price now

Embrey's $5 billion, Trepp's migration inversion and 1.2 million lease-ups have pushed apartment pricing below the metro.
September 14

The refinancing wall is being rolled, not repriced

A $70 million Florida loan retired construction debt and funded phase II in one closing, Oregon banks stretched five-year notes across thirty-year schedules, and a Seattle lease-up got its first mark by debt. Nobody in the stack had to agree on a price.
September 11

CREFC hands its agenda to a CMBS desk head

The council's next chief executive comes from the new-issue side just as the work moves to extensions and modifications.
September 11

CREFC hands the gavel to a CMBS desk head

The trade group's next leader comes from the origination side of the business, a bet that the next two years are an execution problem rather than a policy one.
September 11

National gives its investment chief the corner office

Kevin Verdi has been running the firm's money; in January 2027 the title catches up, with Jeffrey Kanne staying within reach.
September 10

Data center capital follows the power calendar, county by county

Massachusetts just made town consent a precondition for state action, and I Squared and Blue Owl priced existing urban megawatts instead of greenfield gigawatts.
September 10

The refinancing wall splits into clean and dirty collateral

Gantry's Freddie Mac takeout and Dwight's Culver City bridge show agency capital and private credit repricing the $3 trillion maturity queue at different speeds.
September 10

Harrison Street fills out a global capital-raising bench

The $110 billion manager rebuilds its fundraising bench across three regions, and the PGIM departure leaves a gap in Southern U.S. coverage.
September 9

Office capital prices buildings as optionality, not income

From Coconut Grove to Fort Worth, the best office trades are bets on what a site can become, not what it currently earns.
September 9

Covenant bets on capital markets with new CIO

The hire puts a 30-year capital-markets career atop Covenant's investment team and points the next cycle toward financing.
September 8

Data-center supply chain takes 10M SF in DFW

The data-center buildout is moving Dallas-Fort Worth industrial absorption, and warehouse landlords hold the second-order trade without the land or power risk.
September 7

Data center capital splits: cheap shells, pricier ground

Hutto's $280 million shell, Bitdeer's $500,000-an-acre land, and GLP's RMB4 billion Foshan campus all trace value as it leaves the building for the ground.
September 4

Senior housing's $800,000 unit price meets a six-agency stack

Stabilized senior housing trades at going-concern prices while new supply still leans on public credit, and the gap between them is the underwriting engine.
September 4

Union Investment folds the property lifecycle into one department

Karim Esch's new unit carries the asset from acquisition to disposition.
August 31

Commonwealth loses six teams and four advisors in one day

The same-day exits to a new RIA and Cetera reveal a platform squeeze between breakaway equity and scaled independence.
August 31

Power, not land, decides data-center winners

A new state audit has turned grid access into the binding constraint for a $73 billion construction pipeline.
August 31

Income visibility clears the refinancing wall

Lenders are funding proven cash flow as apartment prices slide for a ninth month.
August 28
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