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About six months after publishing their 2026 Housing Market Outlook , the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) says that what was already a weak housing market has actually proven even weaker than expected. “Housing market activity in 2026 has so far been weaker than expected, particularly in sales and…

A Lauderhill-based financial firm landed a $79 million refinancing for a luxury apartment tower in downtown Hollywood. Stewards Inc. secured the new debt for 1818 Park, a 22-story, 500,000-square-foot apartment building at 1818 Hollywood Boulevard that’s 94 percent leased. The financing, which replaces existing…
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The Fed is expected to hold rates this Wednesday, July 28th, 2026, but a hike is a real possibility after surging energy prices revived inflation concerns. Meetings can move markets even when the rate does not change. In June, the Fed held and still jolted rate expectations, producing the largest hawkish surprise…
Seyon Group has sealed $28.1 million of acquisition financing to purchase an 11-building industrial campus in East Hartford, Conn., Commercial Observer has learned. Northwest Bank supplied the loan for Seyon Group’s $37 million acquisition of the 428,000-square-foot Prestige Park property. The 11 warehouses that…

Associated Bank announced the completion of a $28.35 million loan to a joint venture of North Park Ventures and SNS Realty Group for development of a new transit-oriented residential development in Chicago. The loan included funds for acquisition of the former Tortenson Glass Co. which consists of nearly 30,000…

A joint venture between the Dinerstein Companies and PGIM has secured $81 million to refinance Atlas Peakview, a 330-unit multifamily complex that recently opened outside Denver, Colo., Commercial Observer can first report. Mesa West Capital provided the debt, structured as a short-term, first-mortgage loan, while…

Cerberus Capital Management has acquired a $1.3-billion loam book with heavy exposure to rent-regulated apartments in New York City, Bloomberg News reported. The seller was OceanFirst Financial Corp., which priced the loans at about 92 cents on the dollar. With about $736 million of the $1.3-billion portfolio tied…
BALTIMORE — CFG has provide a $70.8 million bridge loan for the acquisition of a skilled nursing portfolio located in Ohio. The portfolio totals 418 beds across five properties. Andrew Jones… The post CFG Provides $70.8M Bridge Loan for Ohio Skilled Nursing Portfolio appeared first on Seniors Housing Business .
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Some of the strongest long-run single-family housing markets in the country have also been strong multifamily investment markets. But the two property types did not always appreciate at the same pace. To see where the relationship held, and where it broke down, Trepp compared annualized value growth across four…

APREA and JSB Capital Group closed on a $202 million construction financing package with Bayview Commercial Mortgage Finance (BCMF) on The Avenue. The funding includes includes $109 million of C-PACE financing and a $93 million traditional construction loan. The milestone kickstarts construction of the mixed-use…

Wholesale product company EXP Group has landed $47 million of permanent debt to refinance an industrial asset in northern New Jersey, Commercial Observer has learned. Citizens Bank provided the loan on the 300,015-square-foot logistics property at 2500 83rd Street in North Bergen, N.J. Ripco Real Estate arranged…

Seoul's Housing Affordability Index hit 179.3 in Q1, the highest in over three years, meaning median-income households must spend about 46% of monthly income on home loan repayments.

The housing market has changed greatly since the COVID-19 pandemic, along with consumer spending behaviors. During this period, housing demand surged, home prices appreciated rapidly, inflation increased, supply-chain disruptions happened, and mortgage rates moved from historic lows to elevated levels. These…

SUGAR LAND, TEXAS — Tremont Realty Capital, a division of Boston-based investment firm RMR Group, has provided a $22.7 million loan for the refinancing of Sugar Land Medical Plaza, a 120,000-square-foot healthcare property located on the southwestern outskirts of Houston. Colliers arranged the loan on behalf of the…

NEW YORK CITY — JLL has arranged a $58 million loan for the refinancing of 1333 Broadway, a mixed-use property in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn. Completed in April, the 20-story, 97,526-square-foot building houses 74 market-rate apartments, 32 affordable apartments and 29,000 square feet of commercial…

Granit Pólus Group has completed the refinancing of the Westend mixed-use complex with a EUR 290 mln green loan, marking the largest real estate refinancing transaction in Hungary over the past five years and setting a new record for financing secured by a single property in the country.

DALLAS — Conor Commercial Real Estate and Globe Corp. have obtained a $78.7 million takeout loan for The Flynn at Live Oak, a five-story, 327-unit property in Dallas that was… The post Conor Commercial, Globe Corp. Secure $78.7M Takeout Loan for Dallas Luxury Development appeared first on Multifamily & Affordable…

The Singapore property auction market saw an uptick in mortgagee sales in 1H2026, according to research by ETC, a member of Realion Group. There were 216 mortgagee sale listings in 1H2026, 30.9% more than the 165 listings recorded in 2H2025, and 28.6% higher y-o-y. “The larger proportion of mortgagee-sale listings…

Rexford Industrial Realty plans to sell off up to $2B of its portfolio, using the proceeds to pay off debt that is set to mature next year. Rexford increased its full-year 2026 disposition guidance to $1.5B to $2B, according to second-quarter filings...

Affiliated Development started construction on a Live Local Act project in Fort Lauderdale after scoring a $74 million construction loan. Pacific Life Insurance Company provided financing for The Cove, an eight-story, 376-unit development at 1055 North Federal Highway. The project is also being capitalized with…

Affiliated Development has closed on a $74 million construction loan with Pacific Life Insurance Company for The Cove, a mixed-use, mixed-income multifamily development on the northwest corner of Sunrise Boulevard and Federal Highway in Fort Lauderdale. Just over half of the 374 units will be restricted to families…
The Cove will rise on the site of a former hotel property, delivering 376 residential units in an eight-story building with structured parking.

Northmarq’s New York Metro Debt + Equity team led by Robert Delitsky and Keith Braddish arranged the $15-million refinance of Atlantic Plaza Shopping Center. The 34,949-square-foot, multi-tenant anchored center is located at 102-20 Atlantic Avenue in the Ozone Park section of Queens. Northmarq arranged the…

Merchants Capital announced the closing of Merchants Capital Tax Credit Equity Fund 31, a $160 million multi-investor fund with 10 institutional investors. Merchants Fund 31 will infuse equity into nine affordable housing properties, creating or preserving more than 1,400 affordable homes in Rhode Island, Ohio,…

A $37M construction loan will help bring more new apartments to a Philadelphia multifamily submarket that has experienced a development surge.

Tidal Real Estate Partners is “waving” hello to the opportunity to convert a Savannah, Ga., multifamily building into a Margaritaville-branded hotel. The New York City development firm just sealed $113 million of bridge debt to recapitalize and repurpose the 2023-built Ann Street Lofts property into the 230-key…
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Roughly $11.4 billion of securitized grocery-anchored commercial real estate debt comes due between 2027 and 2029, which is about 62% of the entire $18.6 billion grocery-anchored universe. The wall is front-loaded: 2027 alone carries $4.2 billion of maturities, more than either of the following years. That much…

Controversial father-son landlord duo Raphael and John Lowenstein took center stage in Cook County’s June foreclosure filings. After offloading a Kenwood apartment complex earlier this year amid mounting distress in their real estate portfolios, the Lowensteins are now facing nearly $55 million in combined…

Northlink Capital has secured $85 million of construction financing to develop a Miami Beach luxury condominium project, Commercial Observer has learned. Deutsche Bank provided the loan, which will refinance past debt and fund ground-up construction of the 12-story condo tower at 7200 Collins Avenue in Miami…

Golden Horizons Enterprises inked a $73.1 bridge loan on Merrick on Camelback, a 334-unit built-to-rent community in Phoenix, Arizona. The financing was arranged by Lument and originated by Arcus Real Estate Capital. The bridge loan has a three-year term with two one-year extension options. Golden Horizon…

A handful of the latest commercial real estate collateralized loan obligation (CLO) deals lean hard into multifamily collateral and full-term interest-only structures. CRED iQ analyzed loan-level collateral across a handful of the latest CRE CLO deals totaling $4.68 billion and 160 loans of collateral with the…
Last week's surge in oil prices pushed Treasury yields to their highest levels since early 2025 and put a rate increase back on the table, two weeks after a soft June inflation report had taken it off. Here are three things to watch for this week:
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DES MOINES, IOWA — Foss & Co., a tax credit syndicator, has secured financing for the Financial Center, a 25-story office tower in downtown Des Moines. Developed by Lawmark Capital, the project will convert the building into 209 market-rate apartment units and 152,000 square feet of commercial space, generating…
IRVING, TEXAS — Lone Star PACE has provided an $11.6 million C-PACE (Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy) loan for a data center conversion project in Irving. The project centers on the conversion of the vacant, 113,406-square-foot industrial flex building at 6001 Campus Circle Drive W, which was built on 4.7…

LOS ANGELES — Walker & Dunlop has arranged a $28.9 million loan to refinance Billy G. Mills Manor, an affordable housing community in Los Angeles. Walker & Dunlop’s Jeff Kearns… The post Watt Capital Developers Secures Refinancing, HAP Contract Renewal for Los Angeles Affordable Housing appeared first on…

Nashville is the nation’s second-strongest buyer’s market with 129% more home sellers than buyers in June. In other words, Nashville has more than two home sellers for every buyer actively in the market. Years of steady homebuilding, fast home-price appreciation and higher mortgage rates have shifted Nashville’s…

Gránit Pólus Group has closed a €290 million green loan refinancing of the Westend building complex in Budapest, described as the largest real-estate refinancing transaction in Hungary in the past five years and a record for a single property. The financing is provided by a bank consortium led by Erste Bank Hungary…

A 110K SF Main Line office park has been refinanced via a nonrecourse loan. Sponsor Balashine Properties secured the $17.8M loan for Swedesford Crossing at 480-500 Swedesford Road in Wayne. It was originated by Morgan Stanley and coordinated by D2 Capital...

KB Kookmin Bank nearly tripled its real estate PF credit support to 3.376 trillion won in H1 2025, accounting for 40.6% of Korea's four major banks, to back redevelopment projects.

One of real estate’s favorite lenders continued to turn its back on the industry during the second quarter. Arkansas-based Bank OZK dropped the real estate exposure in its overall loan book to 47 percent in the second quarter, Bisnow reported, below its historic norms. The real estate exposure was down 5 percentage…

Legal troubles for Chicago real estate investor Jiazhao “Frank” Chen are multiplying as the South Side landlord was named in another foreclosure lawsuit filed late last week involving three Bridgeport properties. The lawsuit is over a defaulted loan payment of nearly $820,000 against Best Credit Investment LLC, an…

Aprea Development and JSB Capital Group landed a $202 million construction financing package for The Avenue, a luxury mixed-use development in downtown Naples. Bayview Commercial Mortgage Finance provided the package, which includes a $93 million traditional construction loan and $109 million of C-PACE financing,…
The financing was secured by a portfolio of 99 IOS properties totaling 551 usable acres and nearly 2.1 million square feet of accompanying warehouse space. (Credit: Alterra IOS)

Banks returned to commercial real estate lending in the first quarter after years of eschewing the industry. To the delight of developers and owners, the trend has continued. A handful of major banks made substantive increases to their commercial real estate loan balances from April to June, the Wall Street Journal…

The “year of transition” for KKR’s real estate lending arm may see it transition out of the parent company’s purview altogether. The board of directors for KKR Real Estate Finance Trust is exploring strategic alternatives, Bisnow reported, as noted in the entity’s second-quarter earnings report. That could signal a…

KKR Real Estate Credit outlines commercial real estate debt as an attractive relative-value opportunity following a 20–30% property valuation reset, driven by refinancing needs and maturity walls rather than distressed conditions.

Apollo Global Management explores core-plus investment strategies using private investment-grade credit to finance industrial and emerging sectors.

Apollo Global Management introduces AMAPS, a structured credit vehicle designed to finance industrial and innovation-focused sectors.

J.P. Morgan explores how multifamily investors can use commercial bridge loans as flexible short-term capital and transition pathways to agency financing.

Wells Fargo's latest U.S. outlook warns that stubborn inflation and a more hawkish Federal Reserve will keep borrowing costs elevated into 2027, sustaining the affordability squeeze on housing and traditional commercial property even as the artificial intelligence buildout keeps data center and power construction…

Cerberus buys $1.3 billion New York multifamily loan book at 92 cents on the dollar as regional banks accelerate exits from rent-regulated portfolios. The post Distressed Multifamily Debt Finds Buyers as Banks Exit New York Portfolios appeared first on Propmodo .

Breakthrough Properties and Tishman Speyer announced a joint investment in a $90-million mezzanine bridge loan for Aperture Del Mar, a newly constructed, 538,000-square-foot Class A life science campus in San Diego. The borrower, Gemdale USA, will use the proceeds to refinance an existing loan. The four-building…

Greystone has provided a total of $91,851,000 in Fannie Mae loans to refinance and acquire three affordable housing communities located in New York. The financing was originated by senior managing director Eric Rosenstock and EVP Jeff Englund on behalf of Metropolitan Realty Group. The financing includes three…
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Community banks in the $2 billion to $6 billion asset range are assumed to carry safer retail commercial real estate (CRE) exposure than their larger peers. The reasoning: community banks more frequently lend to ‘needs-based’ retail, which is a fundamentally different credit from a super-regional mall. We tested…

Apartment market conditions tightened over the past three months, with conditions for debt and equity financing worsening while deal flow decreased, the National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC) reported in its July Quarterly Survey of Apartment Market Conditions. However, rent growth and vacancies represented a…

Keller Investment Properties will refinance a 13-property portfolio through a $718.5 million CMBS loan. Six are in Utah, four in Nevada and three in Arizona. Multihousing News reports that a Nomura affiliate will provide a two-year, floating-rate, interest-only loan. Approximately $696.3 million will refinance…

Developer Jeff Svitak has landed $34.25 million of bridge debt for a newly completed San Diego multifamily project, Commercial Observer has learned. Lightstone Capital originated the senior loan for Svitak’s Kaya Apartments development in San Diego’s Bankers Hill neighborhood. John Zubak, managing director and head…

Affordability challenges continued to weigh on the new-home market in June, as elevated mortgage rates, rising inflation and broader economic uncertainty kept many prospective buyers on the sidelines. Sales of newly built single-family home rose 1.6% in June to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 628,000, up from…

NEW YORK CITY — M&T Realty Capital Corp. has provided a $141.4 million bridge loan for the refinancing of Anagram Turtle Bay, a 194-unit apartment building located at 300 E. 50th St. in Manhattan. Designed by BKSK Architects, the 23-story building houses studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom units, as well as…