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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.
San Jose median asking rent hits $3,565 as national median falls
San Francisco climbed 4.8% to $3,057, $48 below its summer 2022 peak; Connect CRE, citing Realtor.com data, attributed Bay Area gains to AI hiring.
EverWind plans C$8 billion Point Tupper data-center campus in Nova Scotia
The first 95 megawatts are targeted for late 2027, with a 325-megawatt expansion in 2028; Reuters reports Anthropic is the tenant for the initial phase.
Boston office vacancy forecast to fall 10 bps to 19.1%, Marcus & Millichap says
The brokerage attributes the drop mainly to Suffolk County, where 1.3 million square feet of first-half absorption cut vacancy to 20.4%.
Southern California warehouse users outbid investors to own space
Occupiers competed actively with institutions early this year and paid a premium to buy rather than lease, according to Smith Industrial Partners data cited by Commercial Observer.
Dermody to start 1.2M SF of Phoenix industrial as first phase leases up
Buildings 3 and 4 at LogistiCenter at Copperwing are designed to combine into a single 1,319,962-square-foot building, with delivery estimated for the third quarter of 2027.
Seoul class A face rents rise 4.9% as CBD vacancy climbs to 7.0%
Newmark's Q3 report credits tenant relocations; two of the three named tenants are public bodies.
New Mountain net lease arm targets mission-critical manufacturing
Kaplan said about half the industries the unit focuses on depend on real estate-centric operations, citing consumer packaged goods, food and beverage, and pharmaceuticals.
KG Growth Partners explores AI data center conversion at shuttered San Francisco mall
The Maryland-based firm is weighing the former Bloomingdale's space; no formal development application has been submitted.
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Moinian set to add 1.9 million square feet of Hudson Yards office
Commercial Observer's summary of its sit-down with him names no start date, address or anchor tenant; Manhattan is described as desperate for new stock.
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NYC multifamily dollar volume falls 23.3% in Q3 as large deals halve
Nine-month sales still rose 7.9% to $6.99 billion across 1,044 transactions, and buildings with at least 75% free-market units took 63.1% of third-quarter dollar volume.
L.A. industrial vacancy falls to 5% on fourth straight quarter of absorption
Tenants absorbed 1.9 million square feet in the third quarter, but asking rents stayed at $1.19 per square foot per month and buildings under 50,000 square feet kept shedding space.
ULI and Heitman report says power access is reshaping real estate investment
The study says markets with abundant energy, transmission capacity, fiber and fast power delivery could gain an advantage, and it flags powered land, battery storage and workforce housing.
Keppel consortium seeks $448m for Shanghai complex, 35% below 2019 price
Savills is sole agent on the 800,835-square-foot International Bund Gateway in Hongkou, which pairs two 18-story office towers with a retail podium.
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Aviator House opens as D.C.'s first completed Housing in Downtown conversion
National Real Estate Development converted the 1972-vintage Air Line Pilots Association headquarters, which the project lead said was about half leased after the pandemic.
Prologis raises 2026 acquisition and development guidance after 60 million-square-foot leasing quarter
The REIT lifted its 2026 acquisition range to $2.1 billion–$2.3 billion and its development outlook to $5 billion–$5.75 billion, while flagging higher rates as a risk to values.
Marcus & Millichap: fewer than 50,000 new jobs a month can hold unemployment steady
The brokerage links weaker hiring to slower apartment absorption in the Sun Belt and flags retail net absorption below 2 million square feet a quarter since the start of 2025.
CBRE flags hybrid-work compliance risk for state and local incentives
Attendance requirements now range from 0% to nearly 60% of a work week.
Hillpointe to build 358-home rental community in South Reno
The project combines 268 apartments with 90 build-to-rent townhomes, and first deliveries are set for January 2028.
Urban Land Institute and Heitman report ties commercial property siting to power access
The study projects $7.6 trillion in global data center investment by 2030, with $3 trillion directly connected to real estate.
Manhattan office leasing rises 2.3% through third quarter of 2026
Vacancy fell to 12.6% and direct asking rents rose to $84.56 per square foot, JLL data cited by IREI show.
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Trepp: Apartment prices fell 2.56% year over year in Q2
The equal-weighted index slipped 0.1% from the first quarter; the value-weighted index is down 17.8% since June 2022.
U.S. office posts fifth straight quarter of absorption gains, JLL says
Third-quarter net absorption of 6 million square feet brings the year-to-date total to 21 million as completions stay near a record low.
JLL completes Nuveen's sale of 8270 Greensboro Drive to Onward Investors
The 10-story building is 96% leased to 13 tenants, and the sale price was not disclosed.
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Power tops US site-selection factors in consultants' survey as data center demand strains utilities
79% of surveyed consultants cite electric power as a top factor, ahead of labor availability and geopolitics at 50%.
Big Watt Digital and PowerHouse Data Centers win Taylor approval for up to 1GW campus
The co-development partners propose the 664-acre Taylor Technology Campus in Austin's technology corridor, according to Connect CRE.
Yardi Matrix moves Sun Belt rent recovery target to 2027 as metro vacancies diverge
The data firm now expects positive rent growth across every major high-supply market by year-end 2027, a year later than its earlier call, Commercial Observer reported.
Trammell Crow Residential files Scottsdale office-to-apartment conversion plans
The 319-unit filing targets a Kierland Boulevard office site The Related Group bought for $32 million in 2023 after city conversion approvals.
SC Capital Partners completes investment in 40MW Pohang AI data center
The liquid-cooled project has power approval, building permits and a secured anchor tenant; completion is targeted for the end of 2027.
Moinian details 1.9M-square-foot Hudson Yards office tower and land buys
The Commercial Observer interview, conducted Sept. 25, traces Moinian's path from Midtown South loft purchases and 1994 office-to-apartment conversions to a 1.9 million-square-foot Hudson Yards office project.
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Boston trophy office rents hit $105.02 per square foot, a two-year high
Marketwide asking rents averaged $66.49 and Class A space outside the top tier fell to $74.84, per JLL data reported by Bisnow.
Data centers become a target of $86.5M in midterm campaign ads
AdImpact data shared with Bisnow shows spots mentioning the sector reached viewers in 38 states, almost always in a negative context.
Portman breaks ground on 714,233-square-foot Houston industrial park
The three-building Gateway 1960 is slated to deliver in the third quarter of 2027 near George Bush Intercontinental Airport.
Barings names Germany a top pick as office prices sit 46% below peak
BauMont has entered the German market with a €70 million Munich residential buy, and Oxford Economics expects industrial to lead German returns.
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Avison Young tracks $3.4T U.S. manufacturing pipeline with two dozen projects under construction
The brokerage counts 124 proposed or announced U.S. projects worth $3.4 trillion in potential investment; roughly two dozen are under construction with about $500 billion committed.
San Francisco office cap meets record run of 100,000-square-foot leases
Twenty leases over 100,000 square feet have closed in 2026 and nine are pending, while a 1985 program limits how much new office space the city can approve.
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Taco Bell's 254,162-square-foot lease is Orange County's largest in five years
JLL data show countywide vacancy down to 15.4 percent and average asking rents up to $3.02 per square foot per month.
Northern Virginia office vacancy falls for sixth straight quarter to 21.7%
JLL recorded 672,378 square feet of positive net absorption while leasing slipped to 1.3 million square feet with no deal above 100,000 square feet.