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U.S. apartment rents slip 0.08% in September, ending nine-month streak of positive-to-flat increases
Annual rent growth accelerated to 1.5% from 1.3% in August, while Apartments.com flagged elevated supply as a continuing constraint on pricing.
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BKM report defines mid-bay industrial as the segment between small-bay and big-box
The study sets it at buildings of 100,000 to 200,000 square feet and suites of 15,000 to 75,000 square feet.
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infinitSpace picks downtown Los Angeles for first U.S. flex location
The Europe-based operator will manage roughly 32,000 square feet at 612 S. Broadway for an owner that keeps the building, and is targeting 30 new U.S. locations over the next 24 months.
Marcus & Millichap: D.C. retail transaction activity up 30% as Northern Virginia vacancy holds
More retail space was leased than vacated across the metro in 2025, while District and Maryland suburban vacancy rose, according to the brokerage's report.
Bain report sizes the $4.2 trillion AI revenue gap behind data center capex
Bain & Co. estimates existing consumer and enterprise AI can cover up to $1.8 trillion of the $6 trillion in annual revenue it says the industry must generate by 2031.
Westlight Capital reports $750 million in multifamily AUM ten months after founding
The West Palm Beach firm's founder, Doug Faron, spent a decade at CIM Group before starting two firms of his own.
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Lyft, Uber, Waymo and Zoox lease nearly 1M sf of robotaxi industrial space this year
The four companies' new leases top the 830,000 square feet they signed from 2022 through 2025 combined, according to Cushman & Wakefield data obtained by Bisnow.
Kendall Capital files Boston plans for 155-unit office conversion at 133 Federal St.
The 12-story Financial District landmark was bought for $15.75 million last December, about $102 a square foot, with historic tax credits slated to finance the work.
CoStar data show hotel RevPAR up 10.4% as weekly ADR sets nominal record
Average daily rate rose 5.7% to $179.30 for the week of Sept. 13-19, and 89% of U.S. hotel markets posted higher year-over-year RevPAR.
Puget Sound apartment pipeline shrinks as developers cancel approved projects
Kidder Mathews puts the region's total pipeline at 111,019 units, with both approved and in-review projects contracting over the past year.
Post Real Estate expects to convert more than 7,500 units from market-rate to affordable this year
The Beverly Hills firm owns more than 34,600 units across 154 affordable properties and converts market-rate units mainly via tax exemptions and other strategies with minimal government subsidies.
Jamison Commercial and Cahn family plan West Chelsea office condo conversion
The 51,400-square-foot building at 510-514 W. 27th St. would offer its top four floors for sale, with the Cahn family's textile business continuing to occupy part of the building.
Sentinel Capital adds 7,134 square feet at SL Green's fully leased One Vanderbilt
The expansion leaves the private equity firm at 34,737 square feet in a tower where SL Green says rents run from $250 to more than $300 a foot.
I Squared-backed CubeCold names Kurt Pierloot CEO
Pierloot, formerly Bleckmann’s chief executive, takes over a platform with more than 30 facilities, 650,000 pallet positions and 14 acquisitions since 2021.
More apartment developers report fewer starts, NMHC survey says
Twenty-nine percent of respondents said their firms started fewer projects than three months earlier, up from 20% in June, and half expect construction conditions to improve over the next 6-12 months.
Retail buyers split between net lease and shopping centers, Marcus & Millichap reports
Retail assets renovated in the past five years traded above $700 per square foot over the trailing 12 months, the report says.
City of London core office vacancy falls to 9.6%, lowest since mid-2020
Four- and five-star space absorbed 2 million square feet over the year while three-star stock gave back 150,000, even as second-quarter leasing contracted.
Goleta quantum computing sector produces $235 million sale and a Google purchase
Colliers brokered the March recapitalization and sale of a 733,000-square-foot Goleta tech park to Praelium, and Google bought two more buildings in Goleta in August.
CBRE survey finds half of Asia-Pacific occupiers plan to expand offices
Attendance has reached what the survey calls a steady state, and the same occupiers favour premium buildings in central business districts.
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What PJM's data center curtailment plan means for project pro formas
PJM has asked federal regulators to approve a framework that would let it cut power to new data centers that add no capacity to the grid.
Crescent Heights files 1,030-unit Live Local plan for Miami's Edgewater
The two-tower proposal at 3180 Biscayne Boulevard sets aside 412 apartments at up to 120 percent of area median income and seeks a 50 percent parking reduction.
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Multifamily's generational trade sits in the debt stack
Lenders installing receivers and hunting recourse carve-outs are setting the 2026 clearing basis before any buyer reaches a purchase contract.
NorthPoint JV breaks ground on the first 12 percent of a $750 million industrial plan
The Haslet cross-dock starts with no disclosed tenant, while the other eight buildings remain off the construction calendar.
NRP's DC debut shows the subsidy stack is the product
A 115-unit flatiron in NoMa shows what developers actually sell public agencies: the closing, not the construction.
Austin's multifamily bottleneck is the council vote
A $26 million school-site sale turns a shuttered elementary into 435 entitled units, at a land basis near $60,000 apiece.
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Senators move to strip data centers from the rural OZ tier
The tripled rural step-up in basis was sold as a data center benefit; the Senate is now deciding whether it was a housing benefit instead, and rural land comps will register the answer first.
L&G's retirement arm writes its first U.S. development check
Retirement capital is underwriting the 2028-29 supply gap rather than the lease-up in front of it.
Cambridge's biggest office lease of 2026 is an AI bet
Blitzy's 52,000-square-foot Kendall Square deal tops this year's Cambridge office market, where AI tenants account for more than 60% of new leasing.
Starbucks is closing the storefront and keeping the drive-through
A 250-store closure round sorts the portfolio by real estate: the drive-through box re-leases, and the urban storefront re-prices.
Vivmark's merger drove August apartment volume; single-asset sales fell 35%
The $80.5 billion month is one merger printing as transaction volume; the trades that will set prices are clearing out of REO supply.
The APAC hotel bid is two trades, and only one is durable
China's doubled volume leans partly on a REIT eligibility change, while Japan and Korea draw capital on room rates and a thin supply pipeline.
Student housing's rebound makes the value-add basis the whole trade
Volume rebounded 48 percent from the trough, which means the vintage that rewarded conviction has already been bought.
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Retail's store-opening boom is a landlord's trade now
Net store openings turned positive just as completions hit a record-low 5.2 million square feet, leaving the expansion's returns to the landlords already holding the space.
Mid-Atlantic data center permits just became the scarce asset
Prince William's smaller overlay and Maryland's new review layer make entitlement, not power, the binding constraint for private sponsors and their lenders.
Amherst's SFR case rests on sellers who won't move
With no foreclosure catalyst in sight, the single-family rental thesis has become a bet on how few homes trade.
Opus bets Omaha scarcity next door to Google
A 272,076-square-foot spec project under construction on 18.8 acres beside Google's Omaha data center, where the tenant mix may matter less than the land premium.
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.
Catella bets Europe's next decade is a city trade
With beds and sheds now the consensus allocation, the return spread between cities, not property types, is what allocators are buying.
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The $700 billion data center build-out is repricing every other construction project
For nondata developers, the hyperscaler bid is now the number to beat on labor, materials and debt — and last year's pro formas are on the wrong side of it.
The manufacturing rebound is a powered-land trade, and Texas owns it
Announced manufacturing capital is more than doubling while job announcements grow at less than half that pace, which tells industrial owners the demand is land-heavy, power-hungry and geographically narrow.