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CHICAGO — JLL Capital Markets has secured a $275 million refinancing and a $57 million mezzanine financing for NEMA Chicago, a luxury multifamily tower. Standing 76 stories and 893 feet tall, the property is Chicago’s tallest rental tower, according to JLL. Located at 1210 S. Indiana Ave. along Grant Park, NEMA…

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…

U.S. inflation decelerated in June, with the Consumer Price Index (CPI) declining 0.4% after increasing 0.5% in the previous month. A 5.7% drop in the energy index drove the monthly all-items decrease, more than offsetting increases in indexes for shelter and food, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Tuesday. The…

BayCare Health System has topped out its $563 million hospital in Palmetto. The 463,000-square-foot facility is slated to open near the end of 2028. The Tampa Bay Business Journal reports the hospital will include 154 private patient rooms and can expand to over 200 beds as demand accelerates. Emergency care,…

The massive Nashville hotel-and-entertainment Mecca is getting even more massive. The Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center features 2,888 guest rooms, 20 restaurants, nine acres of indoor atriums featuring lush plants, winding pathways, and waterfalls with flatboat rides inside the hotel. Amenities include…
RXR, Waterfall Asset Management, and New York Life Investment Management financed a $103 million recapitalization of Sylvan Corporate Center, a 276,000-square-foot, four-building medical office campus in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, owned by Andalex Group since 2004. The financing will refinance an existing mortgage and support an expansion by anchor tenant Englewood Health, which signed a 20-year lease extension and plans to double its footprint to 202,000 square feet, including a 50,000-square-foot outpatient imaging center and 50,000-square-foot physician office space.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order establishing the nation's first statewide data center moratorium, imposing a one-year ban on construction of facilities with at least 50 megawatts of capacity, while directing state regulators to develop new environmental, energy, and water-use standards. The moratorium was enacted amid concerns that increased data center development driven by AI demand could increase utility bills and strain natural resources, though industry experts disputed the necessity of the restriction.

Noda, a Washington D.C.-based artificial intelligence startup, has launched agentic AI technology designed to automate 24/7 commercial building operations and address industry-wide facility operator shortages by finding and fixing operational inefficiencies without human intervention. According to the company, across its deployed portfolio of 1,200 buildings totaling 350 million square feet, Noda has eliminated 80 percent of manual workflows, reduced issue resolution time by 40 percent, and customers report NOI growth of 0.5 to 2 percent with multiplier gains of 14x to 20x.
RealPage, a multifamily software and data analytics firm based in Richardson, Texas, acquired Manhattan-based Cherre, an institutional portfolio intelligence platform founded in 2016 that analyzes over 4 billion entities and $4 trillion in real assets globally. The acquisition, announced in July 2026, will enable RealPage customers to access Cherre's unified data models and intelligence layer to enhance decision-making for institutional investors and operators, with RealPage CEO Dirk Wakeham citing the combination of Cherre's technology with RealPage's 25 petabytes of data as a means to improve data organization for artificial intelligence applications.

By Jack Stone, managing director, Greysteel In the last week of June, two things happened in the American multifamily market that belong side by side: New York froze rents, and the Dallas Fed confirmed that Texas is drowning in apartments. One of those scenarios involves a market correcting itself. The other is a…

Danny Fishman, CEO and co-founder of GAIA Real Estate, built the firm into a prominent institutional investor managing over 80 properties, 20,000 residential units, and $4 billion in assets under management by acquiring distressed properties at steep discounts during market downturns, including a landmark 2012 partnership with Starwood Capital Group to acquire a 32-property, 9,500-unit Sun Belt multifamily portfolio for roughly $446 million that was later exited in 2022 for more than 15 times the investment. The article details Fishman's strategy of forward-looking deal-making, including his decision to relocate GAIA's headquarters from New York City to Miami in December 2025 and pursue development opportunities in South Florida through partnerships such as the $150 million MILAS fund with Moderno Development Group.
Robert Knakal argues that artificial intelligence is rapidly commoditizing information, making judgment—the ability to synthesize information and make superior decisions—the new competitive advantage in commercial real estate and other professional fields. He contends that judgment cannot be automated and is built through accumulated experience, relentless curiosity, and continuous learning from both successes and failures, positioning those who develop strong judgment as increasingly indispensable as information becomes universally accessible.

Rose Associates, a New York-based multifamily property manager, has more than 40,000 units under management. It’s already one of the largest firms in the region, but it's not stopping there. The firm is rapidly expanding its presence throughout the...

Related Midwest may get a leg up to its development of the Chicago Fire's new stadium at The 78 after a city committee approved $425M in tax increment financing to help with infrastructure costs at the site.

The new sweeping federal housing law is poised to fundamentally change the flow of institutional investment in the residential sector, potentially resulting in a rebound of construction of build-to-rent properties. The 21st Century Road to Housing Act...

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...

Twelve attorneys general sued to stop the merger of Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery, saying the union violates antitrust laws. The AGs have joined forces to block Paramount’s $111B grab for Warner Bros. Discovery, which would destroy competition...

As the dust settles on one of the biggest Irish agency deals in years, Knight Frank Ireland is looking at expansion. Real estate adviser Knight Frank officially became part of Irish residential giant Sherry FitzGerald in mid-February after the Competition...
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…
Construction has begun at 51-02 Roosevelt Ave., a 19-story condominium rising at the border of Sunnyside. The development is led by Hiwin Group USA, whose previous work includes 300 W. 30th St. in Chelsea, a 16-story, 69-residence condo project that sold out in nine months. Scheduled for delivery in 2029, 51-02…
Northmarq’s Los Angeles Investment Sales team of Mike Hanassab, Steven Goldstein and Elliot Hassan arranged the $5.25-million sale of Hyperion Residences, a three-parcel development site located at 835 N. Hyperion Ave. in Los Angeles’ Silver Lake neighborhood. Northmarq represented the seller, Hyperion Apartments…

A recent report from Savills details how manufacturing investment, logistics expansion and limited new supply are tightening Chicago’s industrial fundamentals heading into the second half of 2026. Highlights of the report include that vacancy fell to 6.9%, its lowest level in seven quarters and 90 basis points…

CBRE hired Robert Koontz, formerly head of multifamily capital markets at Freddie Mac where he spent 17 years, as head of multifamily debt capital markets effective July 6, 2026, to expand the brokerage's loan business and balance sheet strategies. According to CBRE's multifamily capital markets head, the company originated more than $30 billion in multifamily debt in 2025 with 2026 volume up 60 percent year-over-year.

JPMorgan Chase provided a $205 million refinancing loan for Blackstone's East Miami hotel, a 39-story, 352-room property in the Brickell district that Blackstone acquired for approximately $300 million in 2025. The property, completed in 2016 and located within the Brickell City Centre mixed-use complex, represents the first debt loaded onto the asset and marks the second major South Florida hotel refinancing JPMorgan has provided to Blackstone in recent months.

Midwood Investment & Development purchased 423 Fulton Street in Downtown Brooklyn, a four-story mixed-use building with ground-floor Panda Express retail and office space occupied by Staywell Medical Group, for $9.5 million from an LLC that included real estate investor Ralph Braha and the Nakash family. The transaction occurred amid a retail resurgence in the neighborhood following plans to redevelop the former Macy's building across the street into a retail and amusement destination called BKX.
Gantry has secured a $16.5 million permanent loan to support the purchase of Meadowlark Industrial Center, located at 404 N. Holladay Street in Cornelius, Oregon, a key industrial submarket in Portland’s fast-growing Silicon Forest technology corridor. Recently completed in 2024, the modern property is 100%…
Berkadia completed the sale of The Commodore, a 423-unit luxury multifamily community with 18,461 square feet of ground-floor retail located in Arlington, Virginia’s Court House neighborhood. Senior Managing Director Brian Crivella, Managing Directors Yalda Ghamarian and Bill Gribbin and Associate Director Jack…
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…
Sabey Corporation and National Real Estate Advisors announced that Ares Secondaries funds have made a minority equity investment in Sabey Data Center Properties (SDCP), an owner, developer, and operator of data centers across the United States. SDCP is a fully integrated data center platform jointly owned and…
Air taxi manufacturer Archer Aviation Inc. has agreed to lease a 501,000-square-foot industrial complex in Morgan Hill ahead of launching its first passenger flights later this year, reported the Silicon Valley Business Journal. The San Jose-based company will lease all five buildings at Trammell Crow Company’s…
The CRE Finance Council (CREFC) said Monday its Second-Quarter 2026 (2Q26) Board of Governors (BOG) Sentiment Index rose 0.9% to 101.0 from 100.1 in the previous quarter, holding near the survey’s 2017 baseline of 100.0 after the prior quarter’s 20.2% decline. However, Beneath the modest headline move, results were…

The Greater Boston lab market posted its first quarter of positive net absorption in nearly a year for the second quarter of 2026, representing what CBRE called “a tentative sign of stabilization amid persistent headwinds.” Total market availability edged up 10 basis points from Q1 and 60 bps from Q2 2025 to 32.8%,…
Greenstone Partners has brokered the sale of 1012 W. Randolph Street, a fully leased mixed-use investment property located along Restaurant Row in Chicago’s Fulton Market neighborhood. The property sold for $4.05 million, with the transaction brokered by Danny Spitz, Managing Partner, and Tom Galvin, Investment…

New York State remains one of the nation’s largest economic engines, but growth increasingly is concentrated downstate and in a few upstate urbanized employment centers, the Citizens Budget Commission (CBC) reported Monday. Outside the opportunity corridor, encompassing the New York City metro area and the Capital…
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.
Kolter Group and BH Group have expanded their Miami Beach oceanfront assemblage through multiple acquisitions totaling approximately $60.2 million, including purchase of 10 condo units at Port Royale Condo for $3.8 million and commercial condos at Crystal Beach Suites Hotel for $14.4 million. The developers plan to replace the aging structures on the oceanfront block between 69th and 71st streets with a 37-unit luxury condo tower designed by Kobi Karp, featuring 947 square feet of ground-floor retail and 86 parking spots.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani designated an underutilized New York Police Department parking lot at 324 East Fifth Street in Manhattan's East Village for redevelopment as a mixed-use housing project called the Aurea, which will include approximately 131 affordable housing units with 30 percent reserved for formerly homeless residents, along with a senior center, community space, and replacement parking. The development team includes Spatial Equity, Housing Works, the Cooper Square Committee, and the This Land Is Ours Community Land Trust, and the project will feature green roofs, landscaped terraces, all-electric systems, and on-site support services provided by Housing Works.

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,...

Social media giant Meta has expanded its already massive data center development in Richland Parish, Louisiana. The company announced Monday that its Hyperion data center campus will have 5 gigawatts of computing capacity and bring more than $50B...
The inaugural Americas Entrepreneurs Program pairs women business owners with mentors, executive coaches, and peers to help strengthen their ventures and expand professional networks.

A first-of-its-kind partnership between NASCAR and the U.S. Navy offers a model for using operational public land for temporary events while preserving its primary…

Paul Fiorilla and Jacob Gonzalez of Yardi Matrix look at the state of US housing in mid-2026, including opportunities at the submarket level. The post An Update on US Housing: The Interplay Between Market-Rate and Affordable Rents appeared first on AFIRE .
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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…
In this year’s second quarter, Brixmor Property Group Inc. acquired two Texas retail centers. The company paid $46.5 million for Jones Crossing in College Station, Texas, home to Texas A&M University. The center is anchored by an H-E-B market and has 15 acres of undeveloped land at its center. Stratus Properties…

Apollo Global Management provided $71 million in construction financing to a joint venture of Broad Street Development and TPG Angelo Gordon for 139 Franklin Street, a Tribeca luxury condominium conversion project expected to deliver up to 18 units with three- to five-bedroom homes and private outdoor space. The developers acquired the former self-storage facility site for $43.5 million in 2025 and are marketing the boutique residential offering to luxury buyers in Manhattan's sought-after Tribeca neighborhood.

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.
LaSalle Investment Management closed a $163 million Fannie Mae-backed refinancing loan arranged by Newmark for an 833-unit multifamily portfolio consisting of three properties located in Washington, D.C., Northern Virginia, and Oregon. The transaction refinanced LaSalle's existing cross-collateralized Fannie Mae credit facility while enabling future collateral additions and providing long-term financing with conservative leverage and strong credit metrics.

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...

Munich Re asset manager MEAG has strengthened its growing Irish real estate portfolio with the acquisition of the Seafield Strand apartment scheme in Sutton, North Dublin, for an undisclosed sum, marking its fourth investment in the capital in little...

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,…
The Presidio Trust has landed Fieldwork Brewing Company for the entire restaurant building at 563 Ruger Street, filling a historic barracks that sat dark for two years after Presidio Social Club closed and giving the 1,500-acre national park site its first taproom. The lease, announced July 7, covers approximately…

Pickleball Kingdom, the largest indoor pickleball operator in the world, will take over a vacant Joann fabric store in Livermore’s Arroyo Seco Shopping Center and rebuild it as an eight-court club, the latest example of a sports operator absorbing big-box space that traditional retailers no longer want. The…

Air taxi maker Archer Aviation has committed to all five buildings at Trammell Crow Company’s 30-acre Cochrane Technology Center in Morgan Hill, a full-campus deal that hands the fast-growing eVTOL manufacturer more than a half-million square feet as it pivots from testing to commercial production. Archer Aviation…

California shipped $16.735 billion in merchandise abroad in May while the rest of the country surged ahead, dropping the state’s share of national export trade to 8 percent and raising fresh questions about demand for the warehouse and port infrastructure built to serve it. The Golden State’s exporters posted a…

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…
San José Mineta International Airport lost more than 1.1 million passengers in 2025 as carriers consolidated Bay Area operations at San Francisco International, opening a widening gap between actual demand and the growth curve embedded in the city’s newly amended Airport Master Plan. San José Mineta International…