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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…

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 .

Presumptive D.C. mayor-elect Janeese Lewis George will come into office next year with a slate of policy priorities aimed at protecting tenants and stabilizing rent. But she hasn’t yet offered specifics on how exactly she would accomplish those goals...

Restaurant openings are on the rise across the nation, and Denver wants to help more restaurateurs launch locations in the Mile High City. The Denver Permitting Office outlined new initiatives to ease the permitting process and requirements for restaurants...

Lee & Associates of Illinois has closed a $5.18 million sale transaction for a 39,879 square-foot building located at 1951 Lively Boulevard in Elk Grove Village, Illinois. Dustin Albers, senior vice president at Lee & Associates’ Illinois office, represented the buyer, Sonica International, Inc., a global logistics…

A Commercial Observer news brief from July 2026 reporting on a leasing transaction in which data intelligence firm Curinos leased 14,000 square feet of office space at 10 Grand Central, a property owned by Marx Realty in New York.
Disclaimer: This is an excerpt from Trepp's "Is It Time to Proclaim San Francisco Is Back?" paper. Click here to access it . After five years of headlines declaring San Francisco commercial real estate uninvestable, the narrative is beginning to shift. Leasing activity is accelerating, institutional capital is…

StreetLights Residential has secured $54 million in equity, along with $111.5 million in construction loans, for a new 22-story Plano apartment complex expected to open in 2029. The project will be part of the conversion of The Park of Legacy, a 107-acre office campus into a mixed-use development with apartments,…

Commercial real estate rent data is only as useful as the methodology behind it. That’s why CompStak partnered with Columbia […] The post Columbia CompStak (CCRI) Rent Index National Update: July 14, 2026 appeared first on CompStak .
SHENANDOAH AND RICHMOND, TEXAS — Pinecroft Realty has refinanced two medical office buildings totaling approximately 70,000 square feet in metro Houston. The loan amount(s) was not disclosed. The buildings include the 57,000-square-foot Vision Park Medical Office Building in Shenandoah, located north of Houston,…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Trinity Capital Advisors and Town Lane have begun renovations on 440 South Church, a 15-story, 388,657-square-foot office building in Uptown Charlotte. Current tenants at the Class A property include Driven Brands and HDR Engineering. Updates to 440 South Church will include a redesigned lobby,…

Richland Capital Holdings broke ground on Lakeview Corporate Park, a new 310,000-square-foot logistics space, at 6700 Lakeview Center Drive. The Tampa Bay Business Journal reports the project will redevelop a three-story office building into two rear-load distribution buildings designed to serve a wide range of…

Congressional Republicans are pursuing a third budget reconciliation bill before the midterm elections to fund defense priorities and potentially advance election-security measures, using reconciliation to bypass the Senate filibuster.
After a decade with almost nothing to show, San Francisco is set to receive applications for three office-to-residential conversions totaling more than 300 units this month, even as a resurgent tech market drives up building prices and threatens to shrink the supply of properties cheap enough to convert. San…
A freestanding, three-story Class A office building in Pleasanton’s Bernal Corporate Park has hit the market as a rare owner-user opportunity, fully occupied by Rimini Street under a lease that runs into January 2027 in a submarket where roughly two of every five Class A square feet sit empty. The…
NEW YORK CITY — San Francisco-based Airbnb has purchased 281 Park Avenue South, an office building in Midtown Manhattan, for $81.5 million, according to reports from multiple news outlets, including The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) and the New York Post. The landmarked, six-story building is known locally as Church…

Economic trends could boost sector’s fundamentals; investors remain enthusiastic SANTA BARBARA, Calif., July 15, 2026 – The U.S. multifamily market closed out the first half of 2026 showing modest growth, as the average month-over-month advertised rent rose by $4 in June and year-over-year growth remained unchanged…

Michael Lavipour still remembers the bank office where executives laughed him out of the room. It was 13 years ago, and the head of lending for Affinius Capital was on the hunt for a credit facility to support the investment management firm’s real estate...

Brookfield is in exclusive talks to acquire a stake in Hudson Square Properties in a deal that would value the complex at $3.5 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported. The asset management giant would own 10% of the 13-building, 6.2 million-square-foot portfolio, and would take over as its long-term operating…

Slatt Capital arranged a $12,000,000 non-recourse acquisition loan for a 68,094-square-foot multi-tenant office building located at 5900 State Farm Dr. in Rohnert Park. The 1973-vintage property was financed through a life insurance company lender, The Standard, with a structured staggered term and 30-year…

Finmarc Management, Inc. has completed the $26.36 million sale of an 83,300 square foot flex and office building, as well as an adjacent 6.4-acre parcel located within the Park East Corporate Center in Chantilly, Virginia, to Pulte Homes. Finmarc acquired the three-building business park comprised of nearly 200,000…

Nonprofit Graham Windham signed a five-year lease for 9,833 square feet on the 14th floor of the Interchurch Center at 475 Riverside Drive in Manhattan's Morningside Heights neighborhood at $29 per square foot, relocating its headquarters from West 127th Street in August 2026. The century-old organization, which provides foster care, adoption services, therapy and family programs, will join other mission-driven nonprofits and organizations including Bank Street College of Education, Columbia University, and Children's Health Fund at the 600,000-square-foot building.
The U.S. Department of Defense signed a 23,600-square-foot lease for a 10-year term at 1 Old Country Road in Carle Place, New York, the former headquarters of 1-800-Flowers, with landlord DBD Realty Group, and is expected to take occupancy in early 2027 following buildout. The five-story office building recently underwent a $22 million repositioning and already houses the Federal Aviation Administration, which occupies over 74,000 square feet across two floors under a 15-year lease that began in 2023.

Knightbridge and Argosy acquired a two-building office portfolio for $14 million. The buildings, Three Maroon, built in 2001, and Maroon Five, built in 2008, combined, make up 174,000 square feet. The 4-story buildings sit on 10 acres in the Meridian International Business Center. Mark IV Capital was the seller.…

Affinius Capital provided a $35 million refinancing loan for Village Green at Bridgeland Central, a 198,000-square-foot mixed-use development in Cypress, Texas owned by Howard Hughes Communities that includes a 149,000-square-foot retail center anchored by H-E-B grocery store and a 49,000-square-foot Class A office building. The asset, which opened in 2024 and is located roughly 25 miles northwest of Downtown Houston, is nearly fully leased, with JLL arranging the transaction.

Tristan Capital Partners has provided £340M in senior real estate debt to a joint venture between Goldman Sachs Alternatives and Edge Technologies to refinance the existing construction facility and fund the remaining costs to complete Edge London Bridge. Edge...
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Office performance is increasingly separating along asset quality, market depth, and access to capital. Commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) data shows a market that is no longer moving as one, with high-quality, well-located assets continuing to attract tenants and financing while weaker buildings face…

Ben Brown, co-president and head of real estate in the Americas for Brookfield, discusses the company's aggressive acquisition and disposition activity, noting that Brookfield has executed approximately $9 billion in credit originations, $21.5 billion in equity dispositions, and $32.3 billion in acquisitions over the past 18 months while raising $13.2 billion in new capital. Brown highlights Brookfield's strategic focus on logistics and housing investments, including major acquisitions like Peakstone, and emphasizes that despite high financing costs making new office development difficult to underwrite, strong fundamentals in sectors like luxury hospitality and rental housing continue to create investment opportunities as public market valuations lag underlying real estate recovery.

Stockton has consolidated its municipal operations into the rehabilitated Waterfront Towers office complex on the city’s deep-water channel, capping an 8½-year conversion project whose public price tag has swelled from an early estimate of roughly $25 million to a figure now approaching $100 million. Stockton cut…

AppZen, the artificial intelligence company that automates corporate expense auditing, has leased 24,485 square feet at 4655 Great America Parkway in Santa Clara, the region’s second-largest life sciences lease of the quarter despite AppZen having nothing to do with life sciences, in a deal that says something…

JACKSONVILLE, FLA. — NAI Hallmark has arranged the $14.7 million sale of Butler Pointe, a five-story, 151,815-square-foot office building located at 4500 Salisbury Road in Jacksonville. Daniel Burkhardt, Keith Goldfaden and Alex Caliel of NAI Hallmark represented the seller, an entity doing business as Acorn Butler…

NEW YORK CITY — SPORTFIVE has signed an 18,038-square-foot office lease in Midtown Manhattan. The German sports marketing firm will occupy a full floor at 477 Madison Avenue, a 24-story building. Peter Van Duyne and Alex Lachmund of Cushman & Wakefield represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. Arkady…

MINNEAPOLIS — Transwestern has acquired Forte Real Estate Partners, a commercial real estate firm based in the Twin Cities. The transaction adds 12 healthcare, office and industrial tenant advisory team members and a broad property management portfolio. Established in 2021 through the merger of Excelsior Advisory…

Grover Corlew has refinanced Hillsboro Center, a 223,716-square-foot office park in Deerfield Beach, Fla. A two-year, $30 million senior loan was originated by BankUnited and arranged by JLL Capital Markets. Commercial Search reports Grover Corlew acquired the two-building office park in 2019 for $32.5 million from…

Denver’s office market is still recovering from the pandemic, but second-quarter reports indicate it is shifting toward stabilization with positive net absorption. Office tenants took approximately 119,700 SF more than they vacated in Q2, according...
Marcus & Millichap closed the sale of an industrial condominium at 30 Log Bridge Rd. in Middleton, MA. The asset sold for $2,525,000. “The quality of this industrial condo drove interest from owner-users and investors,” said Mattias Edenkrans, associate director investments in Marcus & Millichap’s Boston office.…
Rubicon Point Partners (RPP) has acquired Wolfe Square, a Class A, 117,795-square-foot multi-tenant office and medical campus located adjacent to Apple’s global headquarters in Cupertino. Although the buyer didn’t disclose the acquisition price, the Silicon Valley Business Journal recently reported it as more than…

Fashion platform Orly leased 20,014 square feet of office space at 20 West 33rd Street in Midtown South on a 10-year lease at $55 per square foot asking rent from landlord JLA Home. The company, founded in 1980 and managing over 20 brands including Aeropostale, Lucky Brand and Nine West, plans to relocate to the new space in early 2027 from its current headquarters located one block north.
Winkler Development acquired all the properties that make up Mainstreet at FlatIron, a 94,000-square-foot portfolio in Broomfield that includes a two-story retail and office property, a multi-tenant retail building, and a surface parking lot. The price for the package was $19.95 million. Wells Fargo provided a $12…
Altitude Capital Partners, a Chicago-based real estate development and investment firm, in partnership with Shanna Collective, has acquired 1447 N. Dearborn Street — historically known as The Dearborn — for $10 million. The building holds a notable chapter in Chicago’s architectural and cultural history. Originally…
A Deutsche Bank-led lender consortium filed a notice of default against Hackman Capital Partners for over $357 million owed on Television City, a 25-acre landmark studio in Los Angeles's Fairfax District that has hosted productions including "The Price Is Right" and "American Idol," with potential buyers such as Rick Caruso circling the property. The default reflects broader distress in HCP's studio portfolio amid post-pandemic production slowdowns, 2023 industry strikes, rising interest rates, and studio consolidation, including Goldman Sachs's takeover of the Radford Studio Center and Netflix's pending $400 million acquisition of it for a fraction of the nearly $1.9 billion HCP paid for the property in 2021.

Brookfield is in talks to take a 10% stake in Hudson Square Properties, a 13-building office complex on the West Side of Manhattan. The deal would value the 6.2M SF campus, which is positioning itself as a nucleus for tech and media tenants in the city,...

Michael Tait, a winner of the Developing Leaders Award and an active member of CREDA Maryland, has built his commercial real estate career around relationships – and now he’s using those relationships to help open doors for the next generation of industry leaders.
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Disclaimer: This is an excerpt from Trepp's June 2026 CMBS Special Servicing Report. To access the full report, click here. The Trepp commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) special servicing rate increased by 34 basis points in June to 11.20%, reversing May's decline. Across property types, special servicing…
Brandywine Realty Trust sold downtown Austin’s 405 Colorado tower for $151 million. Chris Price at Partners was quoted in LinkedIn saying the buyer was Hines and that the 25-story tower is 100% leased. At its annual meeting, Brandywine’s CEO said the company was looking to divest between $250 million and $300…

Landmark Management, a real estate investment advisor, leased 12,168 square feet on the 52nd floor of One Grand Central Place in Midtown East, relocating from its previous offices at 115 East 69th Street on the Upper East Side. The lease terms and asking rent were not disclosed, though Midtown office asking rent averaged $86.18 per square foot in the second quarter of 2026.

Hines is returning to the office market with a $151M bet on Austin. The global real estate investment management giant acquired a 206K SF office at 405 Colorado St. from Brandywine Realty Trust as it selectively targets trophy office assets with high...

Brookfield is buying into the $3.5 billion Hudson Square Properties as AI firms drive Manhattan West Side leasing and rents up 20%. The post Tech Leasing Surge Pushes Hudson Square Portfolio to $3.5 Billion Valuation appeared first on Propmodo .

When structural columns buckled at 235 East 42nd Street, drones and advanced sensors became vital tools for real-time safety and stability monitoring. The post The Technology Keeping Watch on Manhattan’s Buckled Skyscraper appeared first on Propmodo .

San Francisco’s planning chief has moved to reclaim dormant office development rights from developers sitting on long-stalled downtown projects, threatening to strip their Proposition M allocations as City Hall races to refill a depleted pool amid a competitive scramble for the Financial District’s first…

By Michael Strong, Vice President-Project Executive, Skanska USA Across the San Francisco Bay Area, adaptive reuse has shifted from a niche idea to a practical construction solution. With high office vacancies, evolving community needs, and increasing pressure to deliver projects faster and more responsibly,…

After ten consecutive quarters of shrinking occupancy, the North I-680 Corridor office market recorded 196,732 square feet of positive net absorption in the second quarter of 2026, powered by a 46,219-square-foot Travelers Insurance commitment in Concord and a wave of owner-user acquisitions that pushed pricing to…

A locally based developer is moving to convert an aging San Mateo office parcel into 80 apartments, betting on a Peninsula rental market that analysts expect to tighten sharply through the rest of the decade. SM Flores, LLC has filed a formal planning application to demolish an existing office building at 2555…

NEW YORK CITY — San Francisco-based investment firm Spear Street Capital has purchased 76 Eighth Avenue, a 10-story office and retail building in Lower Manhattan, for $50.5 million. The 35,620-square-foot building was completed in 2022 and was fully leased at the time of sale, with Wells Fargo occupying the retail…
IRVINE, CALIF. — NAI Capital Commercial has arranged the $10.8 million sale of 17872 Cowan, an educational facility in Irvine. Orange County Music & Dance (OCMD) acquired the property for $438 per square foot. The 24,670-square-foot facility will nearly double the nonprofit performing arts school’s instructional…
NEW YORK CITY — Energy Capital Partners has signed an office lease expansion in Lower Manhattan. The infrastructure investment firm previously occupied the entire 58th floor of One World Trade Center and has now taken the entire 59th floor, yielding a total footprint of 70,425 square feet. Eric Zemachson and Corey…

BETHESDA, MD. — CP Group, along with a fund managed by DRA Advisors, has signed six leases over the past three months at Caprock, a 709,313-square foot office property located in Bethesda. Totaling approximately 35,000 square feet, the new tenants include nonprofit mechanical contractors’ organization MCA of…

Overall single-tenant net lease cap rates increased two basis points to 6.82% in the second quarter of 2026, The Boulder Group reported. Retail cap rates increased five bps to 6.60% and industrial cap rates increased 10 bps to 7.25%, while office cap rates remained unchanged at 7.90%, according to the Second…
Brookfield is in exclusive talks to acquire a 10 percent stake in Hudson Square Properties, a 13-property portfolio valued at $3.5 billion on Manhattan's West Side, which would replace Hines as the joint venture's operating partner after a decade. The deal is expected to close in the coming months and comes as Hudson Square has attracted major tech and media tenants including Anthropic, PayPal, and Notion amid a citywide shortage of desirable office space.
On July 7, 2026, two steel support structures buckled at the former Pfizer headquarters at 235 East 42nd Street in Manhattan, causing five floors to begin caving in; the building was an office-to-residential conversion by Metro Loft and David Werner Real Estate Investments, and nobody was injured, though union leaders and city officials criticized the construction quality. The same week saw significant office leasing activity in New York, including Loeb & Loeb expanding to 178,959 square feet at 345 Park Avenue, NBCUniversal renewing 244,185 square feet at 1221 Avenue of the Americas, and Ralph Lauren adding 22,000 square feet to reach 280,000 square feet total at the Starrett-Lehigh Building.