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Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. has delivered a 427,000-square-foot research & development hub for Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) at the Campus Point by Alexandria Megacampus in San Diego. Since 1998, Alexandria has partnered with BMS across the REIT’s life science and advanced technology clusters. The initial…
Witkoff and Monroe Capital have secured a $302.6 million loan construction loan to build a multifamily tower in Downtown Miami, property records show. The high-rise will include about 890 units and 15,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space at 700 North Miami Avenue, between the MiamiCentral station and the…
Brookfield Asset Management is lined up for a big industrial acquisition. The global alternative asset manager with more than $1 trillion of assets under management has teamed with the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) to acquire LXP Industrial Trust in an all-cash deal valued at approximately…
Brookfield Asset Management has established a joint venture with Denver-based real estate investment trust (REIT) Healthpeak Properties for an interest in its vast medical property portfolio. The capital partnership, announced Monday, hands Brookfield and its affiliates a 49 percent interest in Healthpeak’s 86…
In a test of the appetite for Times Square offices, BXP has hired Will Silverman and Gary Phillips at Eastdil Secured to market the 7 Times Square ground lease, Commercial Observer has learned. BXP expects to ask from $700 million to $750 million. A source close to the deal said the price will be just […]
Two companies signed recent deals at SL Green Realty’s 1185 Avenue of the Americas. In the largest lease, international specialty insurance firm Ryan Specialty signed a 10-year renewal and expansion lease at the 42-story office property, taking 29,166 square feet across the building’s entire 38th floor, the…
Goldcrest Properties has sealed $25.5 million of acquisition financing for the purchase of a New Jersey multifamily asset, Commercial Observer has learned. M&T Realty Capital, a subsidiary of M&T Bank, provided the interest-only bridge loan for Goldcrest’s $33.8 million purchase of the 125-unit Hope’s Crossing…
Grocery delivery app Instacart is getting a bigger home in Midtown. The San Francisco-based technology company has signed a 26,134-square-foot lease at Empire State Realty Trust (ESRT)’s 111 West 33rd Street, the landlord announced Monday. The seven-year lease was signed during the second quarter of 2026, according…
Segro has once again rejected a takeover offer from Prologis, but the UK-based industrial REIT hasn’t left the negotiating table yet. The third bid valued Segro at around £13.5B, or about $18.2B, Prologis announced on Monday. The price is 9.7% higher...
Brookfield Asset Management purchased a 49% stake in a $2.1B medical office portfolio. Brookfield contributed more than $1B to form the joint venture with Healthpeak Properties, a Denver-based healthcare REIT. Healthpeak is contributing an 86-property,...
Aerospace and defense tech firms are pouring into the South Bay’s industrial market, turning a historically strong leasing submarket into the engine driving Los Angeles’ tightening vacancy and improving absorption. Although aerospace and defense companies...
The Wine Group, one of the world’s largest wine producers, has signed a 20,852-square-foot office lease at Hacienda Terrace in Pleasanton, a deal that adds to a run of leasing momentum reshaping the Tri-Valley’s largest business park after two years of contraction. The Livermore-based vintner leased the space from…
Amazon has committed to the full 317,000-square-foot tower at 1000 Enterprise Way in Jay Paul Co.’s Moffett Towers campus, absorbing space Google spent more than two years trying to shed and deepening the e-commerce giant’s standing as one of Silicon Valley’s largest office occupiers. Amazon.com has leased the…
San Jose city staff have signed off on a mixed-use project that pairs new housing with a permanent performance home for the city’s taiko drumming company, extending a residential builder’s now decade-long bet on one of the country’s last three historic Japantowns. City officials approved the project at 653 North…
PORTLAND, ORE. — MG Properties has purchased Tupelo Alley, a 188-unit mixed-use apartment community in Portland. Terms of the transaction were not released. Ira Virden, Carrie Kahn and Owen Wise of JLL represented the undisclosed seller in the deal. The property offers studio, one- and two-bedroom units. Charles…
SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS — Owner-operator Onyx Partners has welcomed several new tenants to Springfield Crossing, a 34-acre open-air retail center in western Massachusetts that is a redevelopment of the former Eastfield Mall. Joining the tenant roster this summer are Target, which will anchor the second and…
SKOKIE, ILL. AND MUNSTER, IND. — Bradford Allen has negotiated two leases on behalf of Illinois Retina in the Chicago market. The medical services provider signed a 16,228-square-foot lease in Skokie, Ill., as well as an 8,728-square-foot lease in Munster, Ind., about 30 miles southeast of Chicago. Craig Nadborne…
BOISE, IDAHO — Harrison Street Asset Management has provided a loan for the refinancing of a 547-bed student housing community located near the Boise State University campus in Idaho. The borrower was a joint venture between Appian Capital and Subtext. Further details on the financing were not released. Delivered…
IRVING, TEXAS — JLL has arranged a $40.9 million acquisition loan for Allura Las Colinas, a 288-unit apartment complex in Irving. Built in 2003, the property features one-, two- and three-bedroom units and amenities such as a pool, fitness center, clubhouse, dog park and outdoor grilling and dining stations. Aldon…
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Regional affordable housing owner-operator WinnCos. has begun the $33 million renovation of Garden Court Apartments, a 177-unit affordable housing property in Atlantic City. WinnCos. acquired the 20-building property, which houses 135 one-bedroom units and 42 two-bedroom apartments, in…
RICHMOND, VA. — CoStar Group has opened Foundry Park, its newly expanded, $460 million corporate office campus located along the James River in downtown Richmond. The expansion added 750,000 square feet of office and retail space to the riverfront. The now 1 million-square-foot, three-building campus integrates a…
NEW YORK CITY — Investment management firm Axonic Capital has arranged a $72 million senior loan for the refinancing of the leasehold interest of 430 Park Avenue, a 19-story office building in Midtown Manhattan. The floating-rate loan was funded through Axonic’s affiliated insurance business. The…
TUCKER, GA. — Centurion Foundation, an independent nonprofit organization that specializes in real estate and financing solutions for the healthcare and higher education sectors, has acquired Northlake Mall, a nearly 1 million-square-foot shopping center in the Atlanta suburb of Tucker, from Dallas-based ATR…
ORLANDO, FLA. — JLL Capital Markets has secured a $176.6 million construction loan for The Place at Alafaya, a 1,395-bed student housing development located at 11600 MacKay Blvd. near the University of Central Florida (UCF) campus in Orlando. Mona Carlton, Elliott Throne, Joshua Odessky, Michael Romero, JJ Hovenden…
DETROIT LAKES, MINN. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of a 45-room Country Inn & Suites hotel in Detroit Lakes, a city in northwest Minnesota. Joseph Ferguson, Jon Ruzicka, Reed Gizinski and Brock Banken of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, DL Hotel Group LLC, and procured the South Dakota-based…
WHITEHALL, PA. — JLL has negotiated the sale of Whitehall Plaza, a 365,071-square-foot shopping center located in the Lehigh Valley. Tenants at the open-air center include Floor & Décor, Wawa, The Gravity Vault, Community Bank, Saladworks, Philly Pretzel Factory, Pizza Hut, Health Network Labs, Five Guys and FedEx.…
ELK GROVE VILLAGE, ILL. — Lee & Associates of Illinois has arranged the $5.2 million sale of a 39,879-square-foot industrial building located at 1951 Lively Blvd. in Elk Grove Village. Dustin Albers of Lee & Associates represented the buyer, Sonica International Inc., a global logistics company. John D’Orazio,…
DENVER — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of The Jewell, a 93-unit apartment building located at 4470 E. Jewell Ave. in Denver’s Virginia Village neighborhood. The seller was a New York-based investor, and the buyer was a California-based investor. The property, which was built in 1968 and recently…
GERMANTOWN, WIS. — Zilber Property Group (ZPG) has unveiled plans to develop Zilber Industrial 7 within Germantown Gateway Corporate Park in Germantown, a northwest suburb of Milwaukee. The 252,000-square-foot speculative industrial facility will feature a clear height of 32 feet, 26 loading docks and two drive-in…
LOS ANGELES — Wellpointe has announced plans for the development of a new affordable seniors housing campus within the Warner Center master-planned district in Los Angeles. Wellpointe estimates a total investment of $2 billion in the project, which will be developed in four phases. A property-holding affiliate of…
NASHVILLE, TENN. — Albion Residential has delivered Albion Music Row, a 458-unit multifamily community located in Midtown Nashville. The 29-story apartment complex, which was developed on the former Beaman auto dealership property, is now fully open. Vertical construction on the project began in December 2024,…
SAN ANTONIO — Local developer Koontz Corp. has sold two industrial buildings totaling 187,200 square feet in San Antonio. Built on 17 acres in 2023, the rear-load buildings comprise Phase I of Westport Industrial Park, a 374,400-square-foot development on the city’s northwest side. The buyer was Nuveen Real Estate.…
HUTCHINS, TEXAS — Provident Industrial, a division of Dallas-based investment firm Provident, has purchased Commerce 45, a two-building, 1.5 million-square-foot industrial park in Hutchins, a southeastern suburb of Dallas. The park was constructed on 81 acres in 2015, and the buildings feature 32-foot clear…
Talonvest Capital arranged $57.7 million in financing for seven Florida self-storage properties on behalf of HPI Real Estate Services & Investments. The portfolio consists of institutional-quality, Class A self-storage assets developed and acquired by HPI between 2021 and 2024. Located across Florida, the…
Berkadia brokered the sale and financing of two garden-style multifamily properties in Augusta, Georgia: Stevens Creek Commons and Marks Church Commons. Berkadia’s Mike Riley, Ian Shaw, Andrew Mays and Paul Vetter led the sale on behalf of the seller, Haley Real Estate Group. Jake Adoni and Jeremy Lynch of…
Construction is underway on two projects adjacent to West Palm Beach’s Brightline station. Developers LD&D and IGEQ, together with capital and investment partner FrontRange Capital Partners, started work on Alida Residences, a 181-unit luxury multifamily community, and a 112-key hotel under Marriott’s Tribute…
Healthpeak Properties, Inc. and Brookfield Asset Management on Monday announced the formation of a long-term strategic capital partnership through a joint venture involving a portfolio of outpatient medical buildings across the U.S. The portfolio contributed by Healthpeak includes 86 properties totaling…
Town Center at Cobb in Kennasaw transferred to The Ardent Cos. as part of a foreclosure auction. The Atlanta Business Chronicle reports the transaction was valued at $51.75 million. Kohan Retail Investment Group purchased Town Center at Cobb for $71 million in January 2023 and took out a $42 million loan that…
Los Angeles-based United Talent Agency (UTA), known for its high-profile clients, has aptly selected New York City’s most famous office building for its new East Coast headquarters. UTA leased 100,948 square feet at the Empire State Building in a move that will consolidate its various office locations across…
UTEX Storage Partners has secured a $42.5 million loan to refinance a two-property self-storage portfolio in Miami-area cities Coral Gables, Fla. and Pembroke Pines, Fla., Commercial Observer can first report. Affinius Capital and Axonic Capital provided the debt — the fifth such joint origination between the two…
Brookfield Asset Management and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board are teaming up for a $5.2B bet on the U.S. industrial market. BAM, the New York-based investment management arm of Toronto-based Brookfield Corp., and CPPIB plan to buy LXP Industrial...
San Francisco’s apartment market has moved from bottom to boom in two years, with citywide rents rising 15 percent and institutional buyers now dominating a sector that mom-and-pop owners controlled as recently as 2024. San Francisco’s multifamily market has staged a recovery emphatic enough that its lead broker…
The San Francisco Downtown Development Corp. has recruited longtime Enterprise Community Partners director Geeta Rao as its first vice president of real estate, signaling a decisive shift from filling empty offices to converting them into housing. The post San Francisco Downtown Development Corp. Taps…
The Minkoff Group has acquired the 15-acre former Oracle campus at 10-12 Twin Dolphin Drive in Redwood Shores from life-science REIT IQHQ, capping the seller’s retreat from a waterfront development it once envisioned as a life-science hub. The Minkoff Group purchased 10-12 Twin Dolphin Drive, a 263,024-square-foot…
Brookfield Asset Management and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board have agreed to take LXP Industrial Trust private in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $5.2 billion, including net debt and preferred equity. West Palm Beach-based LXP owns one of the largest portfolios of warehouse and logistics…
Few names are as engrained in Southern California industrial real estate — or baseball — as Dedeaux. The family business traces its roots to legendary University of Southern California baseball coach Rod Dedeaux, who led the Trojans to 11 national championships and coached U.S. Olympic teams after founding trucking…
HarbourVest Partners, a global private markets investment firm, is moving into its first New York City office, Commercial Observer has learned. The firm, which is headquartered in Boston, has inked a 10-year deal for 19,752 square feet on part of the 49th floor of the Soloviev Group’s 9 West 57th Street. The asking…
A near collapse at the largest office-to-residential conversion in the U.S. figures to have substantial ramifications for the dozens of other large-scale conversions in the pipeline.
A class of mortgage marketplaces is leaning into AI to speed up the lending process, with hopes of better serving middle-market deals. These loans, usually ranging between $5M and $100M, fuel the development of strip malls, small industrial projects...
Ocree Capital has launched a blockchain-enabled platform for commercial real estate investment, combining distributed-ledger technology with property transaction infrastructure.
Africa's largest pension fund has entered into a partnership with GREA, grit's development subsidiary, to pursue real estate investments across the African continent.
In the tenth episode of The REIT Report on Classic Business (Fine Music Radio), Brett Till, Financial Director of Hyprop Investments, joins host Alistair Anderson, editor-in-chief of Property Flash, to unpack the retail REIT’s oversubscribed accelerated bookbuild and what the return of growth capital signals for…
TAN-LED Megaworld Corp. has raised P5.6 billion through block sales of shares in MREIT, Inc. from April to July to fund new developments ahead of the real estate investment trust’s (REIT) fifth asset infusion. In a statement on Monday, Megaworld said the proceeds will be reinvested in recurring income-generating…
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