Robins & Morton Tops Out $563M BayCare Hospital Manatee in Palmetto, Florida

PALMETTO, FLA. — General contractor Robins & Metro has topped out BayCare Hospital Manatee, a $563 million hospital underway in Palmetto, a city in Southwest Florida’s Manatee County. Situated one mile from the junction of I-75 and I-275, the 450,000-square-foot hospital will offer 154 beds in private patient…

Packaging Company Signs 1 MSF Industrial Lease in Justin, Texas

JUSTIN, TEXAS — An undisclosed packaging company has signed a 1 million-square-foot industrial lease in Justin, located north of Fort Worth. The space spans a full building within 114 Logistics Park and features 40-foot clear heights and “significant” car and trailer parking allotments. Nathan Lawrence and Krista…

Pennrose, HSTF Break Ground on 55-Unit Affordable Housing Redevelopment in Boston

BOSTON — A partnership between Pennrose and the Hyde Square Task Force (HSTF) has broken ground on a 55-unit affordable housing redevelopment in the Jamaica Plain area of Boston. Designed by DiMella Shaffer, the project will convert the former 71,000-square-foot Blessed Sacrament Church, which was built in 1913 and…

Marcus & Millichap Brokers Sale of 250-Room Hotel in East Syracuse

EAST SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of a 250-room hotel in East Syracuse. Opened in 1977 and renovated in 2016, the DoubleTree Syracuse is located in the Carrier Circle area and comprises a central building that houses public spaces in addition to four-story and seven-story guestroom…

INDUS to Open 75,000 SF Headquarters Facility in Middleborough, Massachusetts

MIDDLEBOROUGH, MASS. — INDUS, a locally based roadway rehabilitation and pavement preservation contractor, will open a 75,000-square-foot headquarters facility in Middleborough, located south of Boston. INDUS purchased a parcel within The Campus at Canopy Drive, an approximately 700,000-square-foot development…

West Palm Beach Eyeing Waterfront Property Moratorium

West Palm Beach gave tentative approval to a measure that would pause redevelopment in a waterfront area of the city’s downtown. It will mostly affect the seven apartment and condo projects on S. Flagler Drive and Washington Road. The S. Florida Business Journal reports the measure would halt any new projects in…

Intercontinental Real Estate Corporation Acquires Grocery-Anchored Retail Center in Auburn for $70M

Boston-based Intercontinental Real Estate Corporation has acquired Lakeland Town Center, a 125,233-square-foot grocery-anchored retail center located in Auburn, Washington, for $69.5 million. Geoff Tranchina, Gleb Lvovich, Dan Tyner, and Tess Berghoff with JLL Capital Markets marketed the property on behalf of the…

Taiwan Semiconductor Adding Another $100B to Phoenix Chip Making Effort

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) plans to spend an extra $100 billion to grow its U.S. business. The company says that money will likely help add four new fabrication plants in Arizona, which would make some of the world’s most advanced computer chips, 2-nanometer and smaller. Those new factories would…

Peerless Building 259-Unit NCSU Student Housing Development

Peerless Development is pursuing the construction of a 713-bed student housing project on Crest Road directly behind North Carolina State University’s South Campus. The Triangle Business Journal reports that the site plans show a 7-story mixed-use building — the height would range from 5 to 7 stories due to grade…

San Antonio’s Aztec Hotel Reveals Open Date

It’s taken 10 years for the developers of a River Walk boutique hotel to reach the point where they can announce their opening date. The San Antonio Business Journal reports the Aztec Hotel, at the site of the Aztec Theatre building, will open near the end of August. The owners of the downtown property, led ... The…

Mamdani Releases Action Plan to Tackle Rental Ripoff Hearing Findings

Affinius Provides $177M Construction Loan for Central Florida Student Housing

CRED iQ Appoints Liam Mulcahy as Senior Product Manager, CRE Data & Applied AI

Predict How People Will Live Tomorrow: Real Assets Investment Perspectives

Morgan Stanley's Global Head of Real Assets discusses investment lessons and market calls across industrial and office real estate sectors.

A New Test for Private Credit

Morgan Stanley's Chief Fixed Income Strategist and Global Head of Private Credit & Equity discuss recent market pressures affecting the private credit sector.

2026 Senior Housing Development Costs

CBRE brief examining development cost trends and outlooks for senior housing projects in 2026.

Retirement Villages Moving Into Focus for Living Sector Investors in Australia

Oxford Economics examines Australia's retirement village sector as an emerging investment opportunity, analyzing demographic demand drivers, development pipeline trends, and institutional capital flows affecting supply, pricing, and yields.

U.S. Retail Market Remains Resilient as Vacancy Holds Near Historic Lows

Cushman & Wakefield analyzes U.S. retail market conditions, reporting sustained resilience and historically tight vacancy levels.

U.S. Apartment Market Turns the Corner

Cushman & Wakefield multifamily market analysis tracking U.S. apartment sector dynamics and performance metrics.

As Treasury Volatility Returns, CRE Lenders Aren't Backing Down

Analysis of commercial real estate lender positioning and lending appetite amid renewed Treasury market volatility.

Green Street Infrastructure Research Now Available: Expanding Market Coverage

Green Street announces expansion of its infrastructure research coverage to include infrastructure debt, transport, and data center assets.

UK & European PBSA Demand Outlook: Roundtable Takeaways

Green Street convenes industry perspectives on student housing demand trends and outlook across the UK and European markets.

Checking In, Not Checking Out: Why Hotel Demand Endures in the Airbnb Era

Analysis of European hotel investment performance and demand dynamics in the context of short-term rental competition from platforms like Airbnb.

GSN Roundup: Citi Inks Storage Buy, Hotel Trade Bounces, and Bermuda Recognizes Egan-Jones

Brief roundup covering a Citi self-storage acquisition, hospitality market recovery signals, and regulatory recognition of Egan-Jones in Bermuda.

UK PBSA: Positive Demand Outlook

Green Street analysis of demand trajectory and market fundamentals for UK purpose-built student accommodation.

Green Street Launches Inaugural Canadian Commercial Property Price Index

Green Street has introduced a new commercial property price index covering the Canadian market, providing a benchmark for tracking property valuations and market trends.

Green Street Integrates MyTraffic Data into Retail Database Pro for European Footfall Intelligence

Green Street has integrated MyTraffic data into its Retail Database Pro platform to provide property-level foot traffic analytics across European retail markets.

Inaugural Canadian CPPI Reveals Slight Increase in Values

Green Street has launched its inaugural Canadian Commercial Property Price Index (CPPI), tracking commercial real estate valuations across the country.

GSN Roundup: Huge StorageMart Buy, Lone Star Hotel Loan, and Unfunded Capital Calls

Green Street roundup covering a significant self-storage acquisition, hotel loan activity, and capital deployment challenges in real estate.

10 Investment Themes in 2026 for the Commercial Real Estate Market

Green Street identifies ten key investment themes shaping commercial real estate opportunities and strategy in the year ahead.

San Francisco Office Leasing Hits Record Highs as Real Vacancy Nears 15%, Newmark’s Adler Says

San Francisco office leasing has surged to all-time highs in the first half of 2026, and a Newmark building-by-building analysis argues the market’s real vacancy is closer to 15 percent than the high-20s figure that has defined its post-pandemic reputation. San Francisco’s office market has produced what may be the…

Ensemble’s 301-Unit Parkside Advances to Construction in Santa Clara’s Clara District

Ensemble Real Estate Investments’ second residential community in Santa Clara’s Clara District has broken into construction, one of the first Bay Area multifamily projects to reach that stage since interest rates spiked between 2023 and 2025, as the developer bets a second time on the neighborhood it is building…

Q&A: Truebeck’s Mass Timber Parking Study Tackles Durability, Carbon Reduction and Cost Head-On

A study with WRNS Studio, Holmes, Stantec and Walker Consultants argues concrete’s default building type has the most room to cut carbon — and could one day convert into housing. Truebeck Construction has spent the past year testing an unglamorous but carbon-heavy building type against an unconventional material,…

38,000 SQFT 1301 Folsom in SoMa Hits the Market in San Francisco After Full-Building Lease to Medra

An entity tied to Group i President and Chief Executive Officer Joy Ou has hired Newmark to sell 1301 Folsom Street, a three-story South of Market R&D building leased in its entirety to AI robotics company Medra, testing whether a single credit-thin but capital-rich tenant and unusually heavy electrical…

Panattoni Completes 95,000 SQFT Amazon Delivery Station in Redding’s Stillwater Business Park

Panattoni Development Company has finished construction on Amazon’s newest last-mile delivery station in Redding, California, delivering a 95,000-square-foot facility that caps nearly two decades of the city’s effort to turn a shovel-ready industrial park into a magnet for major employers. The facility, at 5855…

San Francisco Ordinance Would Scrap Prop M Office Cap Review, Housing Balance Reports in 362 Pages of Code Cleanup

A sweeping code-cleanup ordinance now before the San Francisco Board of Supervisors would delete ten sections of the Planning Code outright, repeal the Housing Balance monitoring regime and eliminate the periodic review that asks whether the city’s Proposition M office cap should survive at all, consolidating…

Mason at Hive in Oakland Faces July Foreclosure Auction After $39.7MM Loan Default

One of Uptown Oakland’s most symbolically important apartment buildings is headed to the auction block, even as the city’s broader rental market shows its first real signs of stabilizing after a brutal, oversupply-driven downturn. Lenders have scheduled a July 28 foreclosure auction for Mason at Hive, a 105-unit…

San Francisco, San Jose Single-Family Rents Climb Nearly 6% While National Rents Slide 1.6%

The Bay Area’s technology corridor has emerged as the strongest single-family rental market in the country during the first half of 2026, with San Francisco, San Jose and a string of Peninsula cities posting mid-single-digit rent growth even as nearly half of the 1,099 U.S. markets tracked by Rentometer recorded…

Winstar Properties Purchases 205-Unit Apartment Complex in Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES — Winstar Properties has purchased The Flat, a 205-unit apartment complex located in the City West neighborhood of Los Angeles. Terms of the transaction were not released. Kevin Green, Joseph Grabiec and Gregory Harris of Institutional Property Advisors, a division of Marcus & Millichap, represented the…

Inland, Reuter Walton to Develop 342-Unit Citywalk Apartments in Rochester, Minnesota

ROCHESTER, MINN. — Inland National Development Co. LLC, a member company of The Inland Real Estate Group of Cos. Inc., and Reuter Walton Development LLC will co-develop Citywalk Apartments, a 342-unit multifamily community in downtown Rochester directly across from Mayo Clinic’s campus. Construction is expected to…

Lee & Associates Brokers Sale of 455,858 SF Industrial Property in Lansing, Illinois

LANSING, ILL. — Lee & Associates of Illinois has brokered the sale of a 455,858-square-foot warehouse located at 16801 Exchange Ave. in Lansing, a south suburb of Chicago. Walter Murphy of Lee & Associates represented the buyer, RBT Industries (The Great Escape), a retailer of home leisure products. RBT will occupy…

Principle Construction Completes Warehouse Renovation for POLI FILM America in Hampshire, Illinois

HAMPSHIRE, ILL. — Principle Construction Corp. has completed a warehouse renovation for POLI FILM America Inc. at One Elgiloy Drive in Hampshire, a far northwest suburb of Chicago. The project provides the protective plastic film manufacturer with a streamlined, rectangular floor plan designed to optimize…

LTC Acquires Two Seniors Housing Communities in Colorado, New Mexico for $73M

WESTLAKE VILLAGE, CALIF. — LTC Properties has acquired two seniors housing communities in Colorado and New Mexico from Harbert Management Corp. for a combined purchase price of $73 million. Offering both assisted living and memory care, the properties are the 69-unit MorningStar of Albuquerque and the 64-unit…

Kiser Group Arranges $5.7M Sale of Chicago Apartment Building

CHICAGO — Kiser Group has arranged the $5.7 million sale of a 43-unit apartment building located at 5123-31 S. University Ave. in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood. Lee Kiser brokered the transaction. The Norm Levin Trust sold the property to Florin Pavel. Situated a few blocks from the University of Chicago, the…

Slatt Capital Arranges $12M in Acquisition Financing for Office Property in Rohnert Park, California

ROHNERT PARK, CALIF. — Slatt Capital has arranged $12 million in acquisition financing for a multi-tenant, 68,094-square-foot office building in Northern California. Located at 5900 State Farm Drive, the property was built in 1973. The Standard, a life insurance company lender, provided the nonrecourse loan, which…

Des Moines at the Midpoint: Demand Is Real, Space Is the Variable

By Aaron Hyde and Justin Lossner, JLL Regional markets like Des Moines are no longer waiting their turn. Retailers and office users that once bypassed mid-sized metros for coastal or high-growth markets are compressing their timelines and arriving here ahead of schedule. Heading into the second half of 2026, that…

Investor Duo Spending $20M on Charlotte Office Tower Revamp

Trinity Capital Advisors and Town Lane kicked off the makeover of the 15-story, 388,657-square-foot office tower at 440 S. Church St. The Charlotte Business Journal reports the $20 million project will focus on the 17-year-old building’s two lobbies and include upgrades to existing tenant amenities, common areas…

U.S. Industrial Market Tightens as New Deliveries Diminish

U.S. industrial real estate continued to strengthen in 2026’s second quarter as demand and supply were in balance, pushing the national vacancy rate below 7% while leasing activity reached its highest level since mid-2022, Cushman & Wakefield said in its latest report. Year-to-date, occupiers have absorbed 113.6…

Return to Lender: Week of July 16, 2026

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CMBS Special Servicing Rate Reverses May’s Monthly Decline

The Trepp CMBS special servicing rate increased by 34 basis points in June to 11.20%, reversing May’s decline. Special servicing rates increased in four of the six major property types in June, reported Trepp. Lodging posted the largest increase, rising 44 bps to 8.89%, and office climbed 36 bps to 17.11%, also led…

Center for Justice Innovation Expands to 34K SF at GFP’s 520 Eighth Avenue

ECI Group Hires Thomas Rowe as CFO

ATLANTA — ECI Group, an Atlanta-based development, management and investment firm, has hired Thomas Rowe as chief financial officer (CFO). He replaces Ben Engel, who held the position for the… The post ECI Group Hires Thomas Rowe as CFO appeared first on Multifamily & Affordable Housing Business . ]]>

Affinius Capital Provides Refinancing Loan for Marlowe Wellington in Fort Worth, Texas

FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Affinius Capital has provided a loan to Greystar for the refinancing of Marlowe Wellington, a three-story property consisting of 594 units in Fort Worth. Walker Layne… The post Affinius Capital Provides Refinancing Loan for Marlowe Wellington in Fort Worth, Texas appeared first on Multifamily &…

NexMetro Opens Avilla Holloway in Stockbridge, Georgia

STOCKBRIDGE, GA. — NexMetro has opened the first units at Avilla Holloway, a 136-unit build-to-rent property on 14 acres in the Atlanta suburb of Stockbridge. The gated neighborhood features single-level,… The post NexMetro Opens Avilla Holloway in Stockbridge, Georgia appeared first on Multifamily & Affordable…

JLL Arranges $332M for Chicago Luxury Tower Refinancing

CHICAGO — JLL has arranged a $275 million loan and $57 million in mezzanine financing for NEMA Chicago, a 76-story luxury tower at 1210 South Indiana Ave. in Chicago. The… The post JLL Arranges $332M for Chicago Luxury Tower Refinancing appeared first on Multifamily & Affordable Housing Business . ]]>

Self-Storage REITs with Doug Ticus – July 2026

🎙️ Self-Storage REITs: Resilient by Design, Evolving by Necessity: New Insights from Capright’s On the Spot with Doug Ticus The self-storage sector has long been The post Self-Storage REITs with Doug Ticus – July 2026 appeared first on Capright . ]]>

Pending Home Sales Slip Amid Stubbornly High Housing Costs, Economic Uncertainty

Would-be sellers backed off, too, with new listings falling to their lowest level since the start of 2026. U.S. pending home sales fell 2.2% week over week during the four weeks ending July 12, the first decline in a month. Some house hunters backed off due to stubbornly high housing costs. The weekly average…

CompStat: 18.5% Rent Growth, a 24.4% Industrial Drop, and Easing Retail Concessions

Three Numbers to Know This Week: Economic News/Updates Tariffs and Trade: Labor Market Conditions: Consumer Sentiment and Inflation: State of […] The post CompStat: 18.5% Rent Growth, a 24.4% Industrial Drop, and Easing Retail Concessions appeared first on CompStak . ]]>

Builder Sentiment Stays Weak as Affordability Concerns Persist

This is a report published by NAHB's Eye on Housing in July 2026 examining builder sentiment at the national level, with a focus on homebuilders and economic conditions, particularly regarding affordability concerns.

The New Stakeholder in Data Center Development

This is a news article published by Commercial Observer in July 2026 examining a new stakeholder entity in data center development, with a focus on capital markets implications and coverage spanning national markets with reference to New York.