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Western Governors University (WGU) officially opened its Washington, D.C., office, located in a 7,211-square-foot office near Capitol Hill at 80 M St. SE in the city’s Navy Yard neighborhood. The new space will serve as a central location for collaboration on the workforce challenges and educational needs, while…

JLL has completed the sale of Willow, a 158-unit, luxury multifamily property in Lake Oswego, Oregon. JLL represented the seller and procured the buyer. JLL Capital Markets’ Investment Sales and Advisory team, representing the seller, was led by Senior Managing Director Ira Virden and Managing Director Carrie Kahn.…

Newmark has arranged a 71,613-square-foot cold storage industrial lease for Plymouth Poultry Company at 18404 72nd Avenue South in Kent, Washington. Executive Vice Chairman Thad Mallory and Vice Chairman Taylor Hoff represented the landlord, a private local ownership group. The property, located at Yellowstone…

Essex Capital Markets completed the arrangement of a $19.57 million acquisition and construction loan for the redevelopment of 226 W. Ontario Street in Chicago’s River North neighborhood. The financing will support the conversion of the existing office building into a 70-unit residential property, including 60…

The Missner Group announced that Ferguson Enterprises has signed a lease for the entirety of 8130 River Drive, a 31,429-square-foot industrial building in the Chicago suburb of Morton Grove, Illinois. The full-building lease comes just six months after The Missner Group acquired the property. The single-tenant…

The Bascom Group has acquired a 183-unit apartment complex in Orange County, Calif., as the company expands its multifamily holdings this year in the Western U.S. The Irvine, Calif.-based investment firm put down $53.1 million for Castlewood Park Apartments in Buena Park. The deal is equal to about $290,200 per…
A joint venture between Centerbridge Partners and Henderson Group has landed a $208.5 million debt package to recapitalize 40 industrial assets in Pennsylvania and South Florida, Commercial Observer has learned. J.P. Morgan Chase supplied the five-year, floating-rate loan on the sponsorship’s logistics portfolio…
Get your popcorn ready, Los Angeles. One of Hollywood’s most beloved movie theaters is finally coming back. Sony Pictures Entertainment and its Alamo Drafthouse Cinema subsidiary announced Wednesday they struck a long-term lease to restore and reopen the Cinerama Dome on Sunset Boulevard and the adjacent 14-screen…

A reversal from Google’s 2023 sublease push, the renewal lands as Silicon Valley vacancy hits a Bay Area low and Amazon, OpenAI and General Motors move into space tech tenants once abandoned Google is putting its money back into the same Sunnyvale office campuses it was trying to shed just two years ago, renewing…

A 1031 exchange buyer has closed on Aimco’s fully redeveloped 110-unit 707 Leahy apartment community in Redwood City for $73.9 million, converting one of the Peninsula’s most contested listings into a completed disposition as the NYSE-listed REIT winds down its national portfolio. Apartment Investment and…
A fresh appraisal has slashed the value of CIM Group’s 1 Kaiser Plaza in downtown Oakland to $53.5 million, roughly a quarter of its 2016 issuance value, after anchor tenant Kaiser Permanente pared back its footprint and drove the building’s cash flow to breakeven. One of downtown Oakland’s signature office towers…

Amazon is constructing a new $98 million, 1.2 million-square-foot regional distribution center in Terrell, Texas. The Dallas Morning News reports construction could begin as early as August 2026, with completion slated for next year. Amazon bought the 120-acre development site last year from Hunt Realty…
Ohana Real Estate Investors paid $191.2 million for the Panther National golf resort and a luxury housing development in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., property records show. The asset spans 392 acres within the Avenir master development at 10391 Panther National Boulevard. Panther National includes an 18-hole…

SL Green Realty has signed two deals totaling 34,564 square feet at its 20-story Midtown East office building at 711 Third Avenue, Commercial Observer has learned. In the largest deal, title insurance and settlement provider Fidelity National Title Insurance signed a new lease for 19,966 square feet on a portion of…

RBH Group has landed $36.7 million of pre-development financing for a mixed-use multifamily project in Newark, N.J., Commercial Observer has learned. CDK Lending provided the loan on the developer’s planned 420-unit apartment complex with ground-floor retail space at 101 Market Street in Newark’s Four Corners…

The Crown Estate has unveiled the largest-ever phase of its West End development pipeline with two major projects at 10 Piccadilly and 21-29 Glasshouse Street that will create 169K SF of new office, retail and hospitality space. At 10 Piccadilly, The...

A month after the New York City Rent Guidelines Board voted to freeze rents on all stabilized leases, a group of landlords has filed a lawsuit claiming that the process was illegally influenced by the mayor. The complaint, filed Wednesday, accuses the...

A Florida-based company that converts existing industrial facilities into data centers is joining the wave of digital infrastructure companies looking to tap the public equities market.

Amazon is close to a deal to acquire a 571K SF vertical warehouse facility on Goose Island that has sat vacant since 2024.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A partnership between Syracuse-based Pyramid Management Group, Paolino Properties and DW Partners has agreed to acquire Providence Place Mall, a 1.4 million-square-foot lifestyle center, for $133 million. The 13.2-acre property has been in court-ordered receivership for multiple years following a…
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Alabama-based general contractor Hoar Construction has broken ground on Colony Park Health & Wellness Center, a 32,000-square-foot medical office building in East Austin. Designed by HKS Architects, the four-story building will house the utilities and mechanical equipment on the first floor, a…
HOUSTON — Urban Logistics Realty will develop two industrial projects totaling 341,000 square feet in North Houston. Urban NXS Fallbrook will be a 182,400-square-foot, cross-dock industrial building, and Urban NXS West will be a 158,600-square-foot, front-load building. Urban Logistics Realty is developing both…

DALLAS — JLL has arranged undisclosed amounts of construction debt and joint venture equity for 8300 Douglas, a mixed-use project that will be located in the Preston Center submarket of Dallas. Designed by HKS Architects, 8300 Douglas will consist of a 12-story, 300,000-square-foot office building that will be the…

LAREDO, TEXAS — Realterm, a global investment manager focused on transit-oriented properties, has purchased a 40-acre industrial outdoor storage (IOS) facility in the South Texas city of Laredo. The facility at 14610 Mines Road features 25.3 concrete-paved acres that house a 22,250-square-foot check-in station, a…

Endeavor Real Estate Group is building a new 198,000-square-foot office and retail building on the western edge of downtown Austin. And the Austin Business Journal reports that once built, they will call the building their new headquarters. Dubbed 5th & Walsh, the project has been in the works since 2022. Located…

JLL Capital Markets arranged a $78.7 million construction takeout financing for The Flynn at Live Oak, a five-story, 327-unit newly completed luxury multifamily community in Dallas, Texas. JLL represented the borrower, Conor Commercial Real Estate and Globe Corporation, in securing the loan through funds managed by…

Woodside Health sold the Arrowhead Executive Center in Glendale for $25 million. Arrowhead Executive Center comprises 101,397 square feet of Class B office and medical space across eight buildings situated on 12 acres of prime infill land. The property was 94% occupied at the time of the sale. The Arrowhead…

National Property Holdings plans to develop Katy Prairie Business Park, a 1,083,420-square-foot industrial project in Katy, Texas. CBRE’s Faron Wiley, Billy Gold, Charles Herold and Jett Bush have been selected to market the project for lease. The Class A project will include two buildings: Phase I, totaling…
Following the city’s rent freeze decision in June, it was very much expected that angry New York City landlords — now burdened with even more maintenance costs and increased upkeep on rent-stabilized apartments — would take legal action to overturn the vote. And now it’s a reality. A group of five small landlords…

Justin Segal is President of Boxer Property, where he oversees operations, leasing, technology, and marketing across a national portfolio of office, retail, and hotel assets. He co-founded Brava Systems, an AI-enabled platform originally built for Boxer’s own operations and now deployed across the commercial real…

KKR Real Estate Finance Trust is exploring a potential sale, the company announced as part of its reporting of weak second-quarter results Wednesday.

The development team behind Berkeley’s Ashby BART Station project has released its first design images, showing five buildings and roughly 600 apartments rising from a surface parking lot that transit and city officials have spent years trying to convert into housing. Adeline Alliance Partners this week unveiled…

A San Francisco Superior Court judge has placed the historic Central Tower into receivership after owner CIM Group defaulted on a $98 million loan, and lenders are now advancing toward a foreclosure that could strip the Los Angeles investor of the two-building property by the end of the year. One of San Francisco’s…
The lease extends a pattern Apple has repeated across its recent Sunnyvale buying spree — occupy first, then acquire — as the South Bay office market posts its third straight quarter of improving vacancy The post Apple Leases 125,800 SQFT Sunnyvale Office Building from Peery Arrillaga appeared first on The Registry…

Prologis singled out the San Francisco Bay Area as the clearest early sign of a broader shift back toward coastal industrial markets, ranking the region among its strongest performers and committing fresh development capital as demand firms. Prologis, Inc., the world’s largest owner of logistics real estate, told…

Facing a $30 million hole that has kept one of the Embarcadero’s marquee waterfront projects frozen for the better part of a decade, the Port of San Francisco has agreed to rewrite developer TZK Broadway’s ground lease and layer on public subsidies to drive the Teatro ZinZanni hotel and dinner-theater toward a…

BEVERLY, MASS. — JLL has negotiated the $8.5 million sale of a 60,666-square-foot grocery building in Beverly, a northeastern suburb of Boston, that is fully leased to regional operator Stop & Shop. The freestanding building sits on a 4.9-acre site that originally served as the site of the first Marshalls store in…

FRESNO, CALIF. — JBT Property Management has sold Maroa Park Apartments, a 248-unit multifamily property in Fresno, to a private buyer for $44 million. Located at 475-585 W. Sierra Ave., Maroa Park features one- and two-bedroom units with an average size of 878 square feet. Otto Ozen, Brian Nakamura and Nazli…

ST. LOUIS — King Realty Advisors and Colliers have arranged the sale of the 217-acre office campus at 8000 W. Florissant Ave. in St. Louis. Bryan King of King Realty Advisors represented the buyer, Jim Onder. Joe Hill of Colliers represented the seller. According to the St. Louis Business Journal, the most recent…

CHICAGO — Kiser Group has brokered the $11.5 million sale of a 78-unit apartment building located at 6748-50 N. Ashland Ave. in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood. Originally constructed in 1927, the property features Art Deco architectural influences. There are eight studios, 69 one-bedroom units and one…

UNION, OHIO — Scannell Properties has selected Peak Construction Corp. to build Interstate Aviation Hub in Union near Dayton. The 305,480-square-foot speculative industrial building will feature a clear height of 36 feet, 34 docks, two drive-in doors, 2,755 square feet of office space and parking for 130 cars and…

CHANTILLY, VA. — Finmarc Management Inc. has sold an 83,300-square-foot office/flex building and an adjacent 6.4-acre parcel within Park East Corporate Center in Chantilly, about 28 miles west of Washington, D.C. The Bethesda, Md.-based investment company sold the parcels, which total 14 acres, to Pulte Homes for…

JACKSONVILLE, FLA. — TSCG has brokered the $20.7 million sale of The Plaza at Normandy, a Publix-anchored shopping center located at the intersection of Normandy Boulevard and Chaffee Road South in Jacksonville. An unnamed 1031 exchange buyer purchased the 58,691-square-foot center from the developer, Wagner…

WEST VALLEY CITY, UTAH — The State of Utah has purchased Franklin Campus, a five-building office development in West Valley City, part of the Salt Lake City metro area, for $40 million. The Utah Department of Health and Human Services will use the 312,234-square-foot office campus, which is situated on 21.7 acres,…

TUCSON, ARIZ. — A public-private partnership (P3) between the University of Arizona, Mortenson and Mortenson Development has broken ground on The Catalina, a 1,300-bed residence hall project on the institution’s campus in Tucson. The community is being developed utilizing tax-exempt financing through a partnership…
BALTIMORE — JLL has secured a $621 million loan for the refinancing of a 58-property, 6.3 million-square-foot industrial portfolio in Maryland owned by Merritt Properties, a Baltimore-based industrial developer and operator. Pete Pittroff, Anthony Fertitta, Travis Anderson, Evan Parker and Christopher Pratt of JLL…

WEST PALM BEACH, FLA. — A partnership comprising LD&D, IGEQ and FrontRange Capital Partners has broken ground on a 21-story apartment tower and hotel in downtown West Palm Beach. The properties, the 181-unit Alida Residences and the 112-room Tribute Portfolio hotel by Marriott, will be developed simultaneously as…
NORWOOD, MASS. — Corbus Pharmaceuticals has signed a 36,471-square-foot office lease renewal in Norwood, a southern suburb of Boston. The space is located within the building at 500 River Ridge Drive, which according to LoopNet Inc. was constructed in 1988 (renovated in 2016) and totals 100,261 square feet. Curtis…

OMAHA, NEB. — Marcus & Millichap has negotiated the sale of a 113-room Fairfield Inn & Suites hotel property in downtown Omaha. Adam Lewis is Marcus & Millichap’s Nebraska broker of record. The firm marketed the property on behalf of the seller and procured the buyer, both private investor groups. Fairfield Inn &…

EDISON, N.J. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the $8.8 million sale of a 5,585-square-foot retail building in the Central New Jersey community of Edison. Convenience store operator Wawa occupies the single-tenant building at 1095 U.S. Route 1, which was built last year and includes a fuel station, on a triple-net…

GILBERT, ARIZ. — PCCP has provided a $51.8 million senior loan to a joint venture between Phoenix Capital Management and P.B. Bell for the cash-neutral refinancing of Everly at Morrison Ranch, a apartment community located in Gilbert. Built in 2025, the Class A, garden-style community features 236 apartments that…

Trilogy Investment Company closed on Solomon Farms, a 219-acre master-planned community in Statesboro, Georgia. The joint venture with landowner RLB Squared. Diversified Investment Group supported the transaction as a co-investment partner of Trilogy. Just outside the main entrance of Georgia Southern University,…

TSCG brokered the sale of The Plaza at Normandy, a newly developed, Publix-anchored shopping center in Jacksonville, Florida, for $20.6 million. Located at the intersection of Normandy Boulevard and Chaffee Road South, the fully leased center was sold on behalf of Wagner Property Group to a 1031 exchange buyer.…

JPMorgan Chase has lent Blackstone $205 million to refinance East Miami, the 352-room hotel. EAST Miami is a 352-key full-service hotel in Miami’s Brickell neighborhood. Blackstone purchased the property in 2025 for $300 million. Trinity Investments and Certares Real Estate Management were the sellers. The 39-story…
It’s been well documented and much lamented just how few ground-up residential units are being developed and constructed in New York City due to the limitations of 485-x, a 2-year-old state tax incentive that appears to guide most developers to a 99-unit limit on new multifamily buildings in much of the city in…
The New York City Rent Guidelines Board (RGB) recently voted to freeze rents on both one- and two-year rent-stabilized lease renewals, fulfilling one of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s signature campaign promises. For the approximately 2 million New Yorkers living in rent-stabilized apartments, the decision was…

U.S. bank real estate loan balances totaled $6.14 trillion in the first quarter of 2026, according to CRED iQ data. Since the first quarter of 2019, the composition of that real estate loan balance book has shifted measurably. Multifamily balances grew the fastest in percentage terms, rising about 53 percent, while…

The question haunting commercial real estate borrowers two years ago has been answered, and the debt markets that froze after a wave of bank failures have swung back to a posture Newmark’s Ramsey Daya describes as a fist fight for good deals. Speaking at The Registry’s annual San Francisco Mid-Year Broker Forum in…
KIB Invest participated in a $2.75 billion sukuk issuance by Saudi Real Estate Refinance Company.

Law firm Norton Rose Fulbright executed a planned expansion at its namesake tower in Downtown Houston, bringing its total footprint to 139K SF. Skanska developed the 28-story Norton Rose Fulbright Tower at 1550 Lamar St., which opened in August 2024....