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Apartment rents stall, snapping eight-month streak
Annual gains keep firming, but a flat current month leaves per-door growth plans without a market tailwind.
Canada's defense buildup is a concentrated CRE trade
CoStar's forecast makes big-city office and industrial the first play, with retail and multifamily following only where the spending actually lands.
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AI lifts tech to No. 2 in NYC office leasing
AI companies drove 60% of tech's 1.1M-sf quarterly haul; the citywide squeeze is concentrated at the top.
Hutto Groundbreaking Puts $280 Million Data-Center Budget to the Test
What Colovore once priced at $500 million now breaks ground in Hutto at $280 million for nearly the same building.
Ailanthus's 400-unit Gowanus filing is an entitlement option
The developer's ground-lease structure at 424 Hoyt Street is the real bet behind 400 apartments, a school and retail.
Sam Moon ties 307 apartments to Metropark Square
The Class A Shenandoah project opens in 2027, betting its lease-up on an AMC, Dave & Buster's and Hyatt House already drawing crowds.
Data center geography points past tax incentives to power and land
An IIF analysis of where data centers actually get built puts power, land and proximity ahead of abatements in the site-selection order.
Wood Partners bets 2028 Concord rents on Passive House
Alta Thoreau's 237 all-electric units won't open until February 2028, so Wood Partners must underwrite rent levels it cannot yet observe.
GLP's RMB4 billion Foshan data center bet starts with 40MW
A purpose-built campus for an unnamed hyperscaler puts 200MW and RMB4 billion on the table; the market will price the option before the next phase appears.
Higher-for-longer mortgage rates feed apartment demand and keep prices falling
J.P. Morgan Asset Management sees a generational affordability gap locking households into rentals, even as apartment prices keep falling.
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Walmart's $1.3B Georgia build reshapes its industrial playbook
The retailer will build its largest automated projects itself rather than lease them from speculative developers.
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General Atlantic anchors Related's 625 Madison with five floors
The 150,000-square-foot pre-lease gives the under-construction tower a credit-tenant marker that most legacy Midtown landlords cannot match.
Federal Realty Plans 216 Apartments at Phoenix's Camelback Colonnade
The proposal reprices a 62-year-old retail property as mixed use and tests Phoenix's appetite for housing on commercial ground.
Integral targets 907-unit Durham start with affordable fast lane
At least 100 affordable units in the first phase qualify the $343 million Forest Hills Heights redevelopment for expedited review.
Location data turns retail leasing into underwriting
Once store-level sales come into view, a rent roll starts to read like a credit file.
Data center backlash becomes a political-risk premium
State moratoriums and a Texas grid audit mean development capital must now price permission, not just power and land.
Madison vacancy rises despite strong leasing
A construction wave is adding apartments faster than renters can absorb them in Wisconsin's capital.
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Dallas operators win on execution, not countertops
At 89% occupancy, Dallas renters have options, and the operators who answer first and close first will separate themselves.
Trump's data center broadside makes approval risk part of the underwriting
July's $33.8 billion data center deal volume is colliding with a political backlash that is turning permission into the sector's scarcest asset.
Midtown tower leases show renovation capital wins tenants
A $100 million renovation at 1411 Broadway yields more than 182,000 square feet of leases and a path to 90 percent occupancy.
New York rents lead the nation—underwrite the slowdown
Manhattan's average asking rent hit $5,651 and stabilized occupancy held at 98.2% in June; Yardi Matrix's 3.1% year-end forecast, not the 5.6% landlords are printing now, is the number allocators should underwrite.
Chobani's $1.2B Pennsylvania plant buys a milk shed
The yogurt maker is taking over a 1.5M-sf facility and locking up supply from more than 4,000 farms.
Chobani's $1.2B Lehigh Valley bet buys a milk shed
The yogurt maker's campus deal is mostly a dairy supply chain purchase, with KDP's equity sell-back as the tell.
Billionaire-backed $50M push takes data center fight to statehouses
Build American AI is putting $50 million behind a fight in Kansas, Ohio and Wisconsin, where data center siting has become a statehouse issue.
Beale-funded substation turns Tulsa County campus into a power play
The grid connection is where private capital is pricing this data center deal.
Life sciences rebalancing starts with the construction pipeline
Vacancy is still climbing and rents are still falling, but the supply side is finally bending — the first turn in a rebalancing that will reach rents last.
Houston's office split: new towers price, old stock waits
CoStar's reporting describes a clearing-price standoff: tenants concentrate in new downtown towers while older stock waits.
The factory side of the AI real estate trade
Hines says a new class of industrial tenants, the supply chain for the data center buildout, now accounts for 10% to 30% of recent leasing in its U.S. industrial portfolio.
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Lab landlords trade rent now for a shot at 2027
Free rent is financing the lab market's recovery, and only landlords with the balance sheets to wait will be left standing.
VanTrust breaks ground on Rancho Cordova shallow-bay industrial park
Three shallow-bay buildings target the 15,000-to-50,000-square-foot tenants that big-box and data-center capital tends to skip.
JPI plans 397 apartments near TSMC in Phoenix, but won't start until next spring
The fourth phase at City North would deepen a 2,500-unit residential core while JPI waits to read Mill Creek's third-phase lease-up.
Eastern Washington apartment sales stabilize as buyers price operations
Kidder Mathews reports 19 apartment sales worth $76 million in Q2, with cap rates compressing to 6.2%.
Denver's Vault hits market without a price
A 107,000-square-foot former WeWork with a $40 million cost basis is up for sale with no asking price, testing how far Denver's clearing trade still has to run.
Republic's direct lease at 1411 Broadway shows repositioning pays
A former subtenant's 15-year direct lease, part of a 182,044-square-foot run at the $100 million-repositioned tower, adds a data point to the narrow office recovery.
Legal leasing's record quarter is a narrow office signal
The legal sector's 7.3 million square feet is a trophy-market data point; the same buildings are winning tenants and buyers while the rest of the stack waits.
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World Cup numbers flatter a steady hotel recovery
New York's ADR jumped 24% on the World Cup final and Detroit led occupancy, while 22 of 25 top markets posted higher RevPAR—a recovery broad enough to reward patience.
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Texas's Power Pause Puts a Price on Grid Access
A 474-gigawatt queue and a new state audit turn data-center land from a power-access play into a power-allocation bet.
Massachusetts doubles down on conversion tax credits
A second round of state tax credits puts 856 more rental homes into the adaptive-reuse pipeline.
NorthPoint lays groundwork for 4.7M-SF Sacramento industrial park
Colliers takes the leasing mandate on nearly 4M SF, testing whether Sacramento logistics demand holds into 2028.
Law firms' record leasing points to a narrow office recovery
The legal sector's 12.2 million square feet in first-half 2026 is the demand side of the clearing trade, landing in trophy markets rather than the broad stack.