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This is a market news report published by Commercial Observer in July 2026 covering retail investment activity in Southern California during the first half of 2026, noting a 62% increase in that period. The report addresses capital markets and retail sector trends with geographic focus on California and national context.

Cushman & Wakefield has arranged a $58.6 million refinancing for The Ellington, a 190-unit luxury multifamily property with more than 16,000 square feet of retail space at 1301 U Street NW in Washington, D.C. The Cushman & Wakefield Equity, Debt & Structured Finance team of John Alascio, Alex Hernandez, Marshall…

PRAIRIEVILLE, LA. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of Commerce Centre, a 33,744-square-foot retail center located at 17097 Airline Highway in Prairieville, about 18 miles southeast of Baton Rouge. Built in 2015 on four acres, the multi-tenant retail center features 14 suites that were 72 percent occupied…

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

Scoop N Scootery, a rapidly expanding ice cream franchise with 10 locations across seven states, has selected Bleecker Street for its first New York City location. Lee & Associates NYC arranged the 1,325-square-foot retail lease at 162 Bleecker St., where the company signed a 15-year lease for the ground-floor…

First Washington Realty (FWR) has acquired Evergreen Village, a 123,562-square-foot grocery-anchored community shopping center in Bellevue, Washington, expanding the firm’s Pacific Northwest portfolio to 2.3 million square feet. Anchored by a Safeway supermarket, Evergreen Village features a diverse mix of fitness…
BELLEVUE, WASH. — First Washington Realty has acquired Evergreen Village, a 123,562-square-foot grocery-anchored community shopping center located across Lake Washington from Seattle in Bellevue. Terms of the transaction were not released. Tenants include Safeway, Edgeworks Climbing, Puetz Golf Superstore and…

CHICAGO — Greenstone Partners has negotiated the $4 million sale of a fully leased property located along Restaurant Row in Chicago’s Fulton Market neighborhood. Located at 1012 W. Randolph St., the four-story asset totals 6,500 square feet and includes a ground-floor retail space leased to Rōti Modern…

ROCKY RIVER, OHIO — JLL Capital Markets has arranged the $28.2 million sale of Westwood Town Center, a shopping center in Rocky River near Cleveland. Built in 1988, the property totals 226,155 square feet. Anchor tenants include Home Depot, which accounts for 30 percent of income and recently extended its lease,…
PARAMUS, N.J. — RH Outlet has opened a 50,700-square-foot store in the Northern New Jersey community of Paramus. The luxury home furnishings retailer has relocated its Paramus store from an unspecified, nearby space to a freestanding building within Ikea Drive Plaza. Curtis Nassau and Patrick Brake of RIPCO Real…

A Reichmann family scion just placed one of his biggest bets yet on Union Square’s recovery, closing on a Bulgari-anchored building days after the deal seen as the strongest proof of downtown San Francisco’s retail comeback collapsed. Silver Gate Property II LLC, a Delaware entity affiliated with investor Ian…

This is a deal-transaction report published by Commercial Observer on July 14, 2026, covering the $100 million acquisition of 675 Hudson Street by a London-based nightclub operator. The item is categorized under capital markets and retail real estate transactions, with geographic relevance to New York and London.

Barolo Restaurant Group has signed a lease for 2,500 square feet at 250 West 49th Street in Times Square to open its third New York City restaurant, Barolo West, at an asking rent of $210 per square foot. The property is a newly developed 29-story mixed-use building in Midtown, and Barolo operates two existing locations: Barbaresco on the Upper East Side and Barolo East in Midtown East.

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.

NASHUA, N.H. — Nashville-based brokerage firm Matthews has arranged the $8.8 million sale of a 44,000-square-foot retail property in Nashua, located on the Massachusetts-New Hampshire border. According to LoopNet Inc., the property at 166 Daniel Webster Highway is a freestanding structure that was built on 2.6…

Younger Partners Investments (YPI) sold Shops at Prosper Trail, an 86,698-square-foot retail center 35 miles north of downtown Dallas in Prosper, Texas, to Phillips Edison & Company. Built in 2016, Shops at Prosper Trail is 100% occupied. The center is anchored by a Kroger Marketplace. The property benefits from…
A Los Angeles-based matcha cafe chain called Archives of Us has signed a retail lease for 2,400 square feet at 84 Second Avenue in Manhattan's East Village, with an asking rent of $125 per square foot, replacing a tapas restaurant that closed in November 2025. The space was negotiated by Meridian Capital Group on behalf of the landlord Highpoint Property Group and Lee & Associates NYC on behalf of the tenant, with the lease representing the matcha brand's first New York City location.
Scoop N Scootery, an ice cream delivery franchise, signed a 15-year lease for 1,325 square feet of ground-floor retail space at 162 Bleecker Street in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, with an asking rent of $175 per square foot and an expected opening in September. The company, founded over 10 years ago and currently operating locations in Massachusetts, Florida, Texas, New Jersey and North Carolina, will establish its first New York City location on the well-trafficked Bleecker Street retail corridor.

ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Colliers has brokered the sale of Westgate Shopping Center, a 111,852-square-foot shopping center located at 40 Westgate Parkway in Asheville. Built in 1956, Westgate is leased to Earth Fare, CVS, Crumbl Cookies, The UPS Store and other national and regional retailers. UNC Health purchased the…

PASADENA, CALIF. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the $22 million sale of 119 S. Los Robles Avenue, a mixed-use building in Pasadena. A company doing business as MLT VII LLC sold the asset to an undisclosed funding investment corporation. Built in 2015, the five-story property features 50 condominiums and 3,700…

WISCONSIN — Hanley Investment Group Real Estate Advisors has arranged the off-market sale of three single-tenant retail properties occupied by O’Reilly Auto Parts in Wisconsin. Eric Wohl and CJ Kiehler of Hanley, in association with ParaSell Inc., represented the seller, a Montana-based development company. The…

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.
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…
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…
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…

Norway's $2.2 trillion sovereign wealth fund partners with Asana on a $500 million U.S. retail property investment focused on grocery-anchored centers. The post Sovereign Wealth Funds Double Down on Grocery-Anchored Retail Real Estate appeared first on Propmodo .
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…
HOUSTON — JLL has brokered the sale of Vintage Marketplace, a 72,184-square-foot shopping center in northwest Houston. Whole Foods Market anchors the center, which was roughly 95 percent leased at the time of sale. Other tenants include Torchy’s Tacos, Orangetheory Fitness, MOD Pizza, Jersey Mike’s and Nothing…

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…
STAMFORD, CONN. — Golf Lounge 18 has opened a 7,700-square-foot entertainment venue in the southern coastal Connecticut city of Stamford. The space is located within Atlantic Station, a mixed-use development in the downtown area, and features multiple golf simulators in addition to food-and-beverage offerings. Golf…

AURORA, ILL. — Quantum Real Estate Advisors Inc. has negotiated the $5.8 million sale of a 23,000-square-foot shopping center located at 405 N. Eola Road in Aurora. The center consists of 13 suites and is home to local, regional and national tenants. Brett Berlin of Quantum brokered the transaction. A local…
Dependable Equities, an affiliate of Sky Equity Group, secured $54 million in pre-construction financing from CDK, with Valley National Bank serving as a participating lender to advance a residential development south of the New River, near downtown Fort Lauderdale. The financing, arranged by Daryl Hagler and Allen…
Centennial Yards Co. plans to build a 12-story building with approximately 280 apartments, 62,000 square feet of retail space and a 509-space parking garage. A CIM Group subsidiary is still ironing out last minute details before construction starts. A groundbreaking is tentatively scheduled for early 2027.…
Black Equities, an investment firm, purchased Access Culver City, a 115-unit multifamily property with 31,000 square feet of ground-floor retail, for $106 million, with the deal priced at $704,000 per residential unit and $805 per square foot for retail. The acquisition is described as likely a record for Culver City and reflects the city's emergence as one of Southern California's hottest multifamily investment markets, driven by media and technology employers and pro-development housing policies.

Douglaston Realty sold 7 Cornelia Street, a five-story prewar West Village building containing 47 apartments and two ground-floor retail spaces, for $25 million, with the buyer masked behind a shell corporation and a $17.6 million mortgage from Woori America Bank. The property was originally acquired by Douglaston in 2013 for $24.6 million, and investor Hyun Jun An, who signed the mortgage documents, has been involved in recent acquisitions including 893 Broadway in the Flatiron District for $31 million and 16 East 18th Street for $16.3 million.
Real estate investor Robert Rivani sold the Wynwood Jungle retail building in Miami to Tabani Group for $25.7 million, equivalent to approximately $660 per square foot for the 39,000-square-foot property located between 75 and 43 Northwest 23rd Street. The property, which Rivani purchased for $13.3 million in 2021, contains ground-floor tenants including Häagen-Dazs and The Salty doughnut shop, with approximately half of the leasable space available, and was encumbered by litigation involving restaurant operators over lease terms and occupancy disputes.

The Federal Reserve is growing increasingly worried about inflation.

Six months into 2026, Dallas-Fort Worth’s retail market is on pace for another historic year, with the region delivering approximately 75% more than it did in 2025. In 2026, 4.2M SF of new retail projects have been delivered and are in the pipeline,...

In this episode of Retail Recorded, host Anjee Solanki sits down with Jared Shapiro, Vice President of Retail at Colliers in Cleveland, to discuss the impact of the Emerging Retail Leaders (ERL) program and how collaboration, mentorship, and curiosity are helping shape the next generation of commercial real estate…

The Boulder Group, a net leased investment brokerage firm, completed the sale of a single tenant net leased Chipotle property located at 2302 Thornton Lansing Road in Lansing, Illinois for $2,450,000. The 2,465 square-foot building was constructed in 2024 specifically for Chipotle and is situated in the south…

The Boulder Group, a net leased investment brokerage firm, completed the sale of a single tenant net leased Wendy’s property located at 308 West Brandon Boulevard in Brandon, Florida for $1,500,000. The 3,574 square-foot Wendy’s restaurant sits on 0.71 acres and is corporately operated by Wendy’s within the…

The Boulder Group, a net leased investment brokerage firm, completed the sale of a single tenant net leased Sherwin-Williams property located at 3730 Jennings Road in Kalamazoo, Michigan for $2,469,000. The 3,500-square-foot building was constructed in 2025 specifically for Sherwin-Williams and sits on 1.17 acres…

The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 6.49% in June 2026, up 8 basis points from May and 44 basis points since late February, while the 15-year rate averaged 5.82%, driven by market pricing of potential Federal Reserve rate hikes due to persistent inflation and a resilient labor market. The 10-year Treasury yield averaged 4.48% in June but eased later in the month to around 4.44% following a preliminary U.S.-Iran agreement that temporarily reopened the Strait of Hormuz for commercial shipping.

BGO chief economist Ryan Severino argues weak job growth does not automatically signal recession.
Allsop's June commercial auction generated £25m from 39 lots at an 80% success rate, bringing first-half 2026 sales to £163m, ahead of the prior year.
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January 27, 2026 (GAINESVILLE, FL) – Lee & Associates, the largest broker-owned commercial real estate firm in North America, announces the opening of a new office in Gainesville, FL, led by Dan Drotos as founding President and Managing Principal. The office will specialize in office, industrial, land, and retail…

September 23, 2025 (NEW ORLEANS, LA) – Lee & Associates, the largest broker-owned commercial real estate firm in North America, announces the opening of an office in New Orleans, Louisiana. The office will specialize in Office, Industrial, Retail, Self-Storage, and Land. Evan Scroggs, SIOR, CCIM, President and…

OVERVIEW True Mixed-Use building with 17 apartments, office, retail and restaurant Quarter Block in Fremont Sale Price: $17,415,000 Loan Assumption For more information regarding this case study, please contact: CANDICE CHEVAILLIER, CCIM Principal O (206) 773-2694 cchevaillier@lee-associates.com DANIEL LIM Senior…

The Boulder Group has completed the sale of a single tenant Family Dollar located at 770 Red Table Drive in Gypsum, CO for $1,700,000. The Boulder Group’s Zach Wright and Brandon Wright exclusively represented the seller in the transaction, a repeat client and private Colorado-based investor. The purchaser was an…

The Boulder Group has completed the sale of a single tenant new construction Dollar General property located at 905 S Victor Street in Christopher, IL for $1,678,000. The Boulder Group’s Zach Wright and Brandon Wright represented the seller in the transaction, a Midwest-based real estate development company. The…

The Boulder Group, a net leased investment brokerage firm, completed the sale of a single tenant medical property leased to Aurora Health Care property located at 2408 10th Street in Menominee, Michigan for $2,415,000. The 4,540-square-foot medical office building was built-to-suit for Aurora Health Care in 2018…

The Boulder Group, a net leased investment brokerage firm, completed the sale of a single tenant net leased Guitar Center property located at 5483 Virginia Beach Boulevard in Virginia Beach, Virginia for $2,850,000. The property is located at 5483 Virginia Beach Boulevard in Virginia Beach, Virginia, along a…

The Boulder Group, a net leased investment brokerage firm headquartered in Wilmette, Illinois, has been named to Commercial Property Executive’s 2026 ranking of the Top 20 Commercial Real Estate Brokerage Firms in the United States. The ranking, published annually by Commercial Property Executive in its June issue,…

The Boulder Group, a net leased investment brokerage firm, completed the sale of a single tenant net leased Wendy’s restaurant located at 5455 West Main Street in Kalamazoo, Michigan for $1,600,000. The Wendy’s property at 5455 West Main Street is situated along one of the primary retail corridors in Kalamazoo,…

The Boulder Group has completed the sale of a single tenant brand-new construction Dollar General property located at 18895 State Route 142 in Opdyke, IL for $1,650,000. The property sold shortly following rent commencement. The Boulder Group’s Zach Wright and Brandon Wright represented the seller in the…