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San Francisco reclaims VTS office demand lead with 21-point gain
New York City placed second at 84 and the national index fell 11% from the second quarter, Connect CRE reported.
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Seven Equity reported as possible buyer of San Francisco Centre
Reports point to the New York retail repositioning firm for the 1.2 million-square-foot property, now believed to be valued at $130 million.
Welltower buys 43 senior housing properties for $2.7 billion
Occupancy reached 88% and about $8 billion of U.S. senior housing debt matures in 2026.
Alexandria's $638.5M net loss widens as lab leasing picks up
Funds from operations fell to $264.4 million from $377.8 million a year earlier.
ROAD housing law's 12 new programs have no appropriation yet
House appropriators passed the fiscal 2027 bill before enactment, so many programs may not get funding until fiscal 2028 at the earliest.
DC industrial vacancy falls to 7.6% as data-center demand grows
Marcus & Millichap's report shows 3.3 million square feet absorbed in a year and asking rents up 5.1%, with Northern Virginia leading the improvement.
Orange County apartment sales climb 15.6% as unit prices fall
Yardi Matrix puts the average sale at $376,551 a unit, down 14.8% from year-end 2025, while asking rent rose 1.4% to $2,897 a month.
NYC rent freeze covers 1 million households; court fight continues
The Rent Guidelines Board's 7-1 vote replaced 3% and 4.5% increases with zero, while owner costs rose 5.3% in 2026.
Amazon's preliminary plan calls for over 1,000 same-day delivery sites
Draft documents would put facilities within 10 miles of 80% of U.S. Prime members, Business Insider reported.
CloudHQ CEO flags water and power limits on data center growth
Hossein Fateh said local opposition and government rules could slow construction after CloudHQ closed a $1.4 billion ABS facility in May.
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Querétaro holds 72% of Mexico's operating data center capacity
First U.S. hyperscale data center came around 2006; Mexico's first data center came in 2019.
Seattle-Tacoma office vacancy falls to 18.6% as construction stalls
Marcus & Millichap sees vacancy falling to 18.4% in 2026 and asking rent rising to $29.30 a square foot, with downtown rents still under pressure.
Europe data center costs rise; 19% call contractor capacity manageable
Turner & Townsend's 10th index puts Zurich and Nordic capitals among the world's priciest build locations.
Loudoun County collects $1.3B from 253 data centers
Its data centers are a quarter of U.S. development, while the newest delegate campaigned to limit the next batch.
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Interstate Equities closes $215 million multifamily fund
Fund VI targets 40- to 400-unit multifamily properties in supply-constrained West Coast markets.
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Parmenter markets more than 800,000 sf Las Colinas towers
The three Mandalay Towers buildings are 82% leased and Cushman & Wakefield is advising.
Thramann's LT350 plans data centers above parking lots
The startup plans one canopy build carrying solar, EV charging and GPU compute.
NYC Council passes COPA 38-9, giving nonprofits 70-day window
Sellers must notify HPD before listing a covered rent-stabilized building; the mayor is likely to sign, Commercial Observer reports.
Manhattan trophy office vacancy falls to 4.9% cycle low
JLL finds $300-per-square-foot leases arrived three times faster than the $200 benchmark, with new supply projected to fall to 1.5 million square feet a year.
U.S. large industrial new leases hit 92% of peak as renewals fall
Leasing volume still does not equal absorption; relocations and weaker renewals can leave space behind, CoStar says.
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Lubert-Adler looks to sell 595,000 sq ft Philadelphia office
The Center City building is 99% leased with eight years of weighted average lease term; the report gives no asking price or loan terms.
Senior housing occupancy in 31 primary markets hits 90.4% as building pace lags need
NIC logged a 21st straight quarterly gain in those markets; just over 16,000 units were under construction in the second quarter.
Marcus & Millichap expects limited new commercial construction to extend rent growth
The October 2026 Construction Outlook brief also flags water and power as constraints and says the next building cycle could slip by several years.
Carr Properties buys Ballston office for $12.25M apartment conversion
The 186,000-square-foot building at 4040 N. Fairfax Drive is planned for 392 units, with work beginning in summer 2028.
Yardi's StorageCafe: 42 of top 100 US metros put at least half of past decade's self-storage development in city limits
StorageCafe says construction has concentrated in suburbs of fast-growing metros, but the balance is tilting toward urban sites in mid-sized markets.
IPA: $700B apartment-backed debt matures through 2028 as single-asset sales volume drops 6%
The report puts apartment appraisal values up 9 percent cumulatively since early 2020 and points to net operating income, not cheaper debt, to support valuations.
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Walker & Dunlop's Mikkelsen: 65% of 120 deals since May need no repricing
Seven or eight deals expected to close in the week before the Oct. 21 webcast were delayed, and an executive said Treasury yields above 5% have affected lender and buyer valuations.
L.A. County apartment sales climb 44% to $3.3 billion as per-unit price falls
Colliers puts year-to-date volume for 50-plus-unit properties at $3.3 billion; occupancy held at 94.1% and effective rent rose $6 to $2,428 a month.
Distressed commercial property sales rise 26.4% while nondistressed trades rise 50.3%
MSCI data cited by The Real Deal on Oct. 21 show $13.2 billion in distressed trades in the first nine months, up from $10.5 billion; overall volume rose nearly 50% to $560 billion.
HIC Land names Victor Padilla co-CEO as it shifts to master-planned communities
Padilla, the founder's first hire and previously director of operations, takes the role as the South Carolina firm shifts to larger master-planned communities with multifamily and commercial pieces.
Brooklyn edges Manhattan below 96th Street as submarket volume drops 43.6%
Ariel Property Advisors counted $693.8 million of Brooklyn apartment sales against $685.2 million in Manhattan below 96th Street.
Omnes Capital backs Heim Datacenter platform through CEP2 fund
Heim plans its first data centers in Finland and aims to expand across Europe; financial terms were not disclosed.
JLL says electricity costs are pulling energy efficiency into CRE underwriting
Electricity in major markets is 11% to 91% more expensive in real terms than in 2020, JLL says, widening the operating gap between efficient and inefficient buildings.
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September multifamily starts fall 25.9% year over year; permits top starts by 154,000 annualized units
Permits ran at a 503,000 annualized rate against 349,000 in starts, a gap Leaselock economist Greg Willett links to financing costs.
Boston life-sciences vacancy reaches 28.1% and venture funding declines across three largest U.S. hubs
Savills reports put Bay Area vacancy at 23.8%, down 20 basis points from a year earlier.
Elmington buys 260-unit Lawrenceville apartments for $55M from FCP
American South Capital Partners supplied $18 million of equity, roughly a third of the purchase price.
Manhattan office tenant-improvement allowances rise 7.9% to $120.80 a square foot
Free rent was 8.6% below 2025, and trophy build-out allowances reached $130.40 a square foot, Avison Young data show.
New York comptroller's AI scenarios put 25% odds on an investment bust
Savills data show AI tenants signed 8.2 percent of Manhattan's new office leasing in the first half of 2026, up from 0.7 percent in all of 2020.
Institutions are 26% of retail investment volume, JLL's Snedden says
Grocery-anchored and power centers now trade within about 50 basis points of each other, he told IREI.
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Amazon leases 90,970-sf Everett warehouse for Leo satellite unit
The building at 6611 Associated Blvd. had not been physically occupied since at least 2022, and Colliers began marketing it for lease in March 2024.