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JW Marriott Residencies Reston Station is a luxury condominium collection located within the landmark JW Marriott Hotel & Residences tower at Reston Station, one of the largest mixed-use, transit-oriented developments in the mid-Atlantic region....
The Department of Homeland Security has reversed course on its plan to sell a New Jersey warehouse and will go back to its original intention of converting it into a detention facility. A federal judge was notified July 10 of the agency’s decision...
Multiple prominent data center firms are reportedly looking to sell stakes in their companies as record demand drives valuations higher.
Lincoln Property Co. has purchased Charlotte-based developer The Spectrum Cos. in a deal that Lincoln says will help it grow its footprint across the Carolinas.
San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie has elevated Michael Martin from acting chief to permanent executive director of the Port of San Francisco, handing the agency’s 7.5-mile waterfront real estate portfolio to a three-decade government and development veteran at the moment tourism spending is set to break the city’s…
SCALE Lending, the debt financing arm of Slate Property Group, has issued a $45-million senior-secured construction loan for a new multifamily project located at 264-272 W. 135th St. in Harlem. The sponsor, Mass Development, will use loan proceeds for the ground up development of an 11-story residential condominium…
Brookfield is in exclusive talks to acquire a stake in Hudson Square Properties in a deal that would value the complex at $3.5 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported. The asset management giant would own 10% of the 13-building, 6.2 million-square-foot portfolio, and would take over as its long-term operating…
CBRE facilitated the $77.5-million sale of Sunterra, a 240-unit multifamily community located at 3851 Sherbourne Dr. in Oceanside. The firm’s Rachel Parsons, Derrek Ostrzyzek, Mike Murphy and Kenji Thomas advised the seller, 29th Street Capital. Debt and Structured Finance support was provided by James Flinn and…
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.
This is a news article published by Commercial Observer in July 2026 announcing that PGIM has hired David Blum as a Managing Director in its Commercial Real Estate Credit division. The article covers personnel and organizational changes within the commercial real estate capital markets and debt financing sectors.
This is a transaction report from Commercial Observer published in July 2026 covering a real estate acquisition in the Financial District (FiDi) area of New York, where developer Wolfe Landau purchased a redevelopment site for $35 million.
After two defaults, New York-based Columbia Property Trust has struck a deal with its lenders to restructure approximately $1.8B of debt backing a seven-building portfolio. The June agreement will modify the debt, which is secured by buildings in San...
Casa del Rey, a 30-unit mixed-use apartment building, located at 321 Broadway E. in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, has sold for $4.57 million. Matt Johnston, Jerrid Anderson, Matt Laird, and Jack Shephard of Kidder Mathews’ Simon | Anderson Multifamily Team represented the seller, 321 Broadway Associates,…
Slatt Capital arranged a $12,000,000 non-recourse acquisition loan for a 68,094-square-foot multi-tenant office building located at 5900 State Farm Dr. in Rohnert Park. The 1973-vintage property was financed through a life insurance company lender, The Standard, with a structured staggered term and 30-year…
Northern Builders, in partnership with Affinius Capital, announced a long-term lease agreement for a 1,200,000-square-foot industrial facility at Cherry Hill Business Park in Joliet, Illinois. The undisclosed tenant was represented in the transaction by Adam Mitchell and Matt Carolan of JLL, and Northern Builders…
Habitat for Humanity Seattle-King & Kittitas Counties (Habitat SKKC) will celebrate the completion of the 58-home Liberty Commons community in Seattle’s Columbia City neighborhood. Liberty Commons is Habitat SKKC’s largest single-building development to date—and the largest multi-family building in Habitat for…
Finmarc Management, Inc. has completed the $26.36 million sale of an 83,300 square foot flex and office building, as well as an adjacent 6.4-acre parcel located within the Park East Corporate Center in Chantilly, Virginia, to Pulte Homes. Finmarc acquired the three-building business park comprised of nearly 200,000…
Related Beal, Related Affordable, The Commonwealth of Massachusetts and MassHousing announced a complete upgrade and renovation of the Loring Towers affordable housing community built in Salem in 1974. With financing secured, Related will begin a comprehensive, multi-phased renovation of the 250-unit property in…
Indianapolis-based Milhaus has completed a merger with one Southern California-based multifamily company and has agreed to acquire another. The merger of Milhaus with SRG Residential forms a national, vertically integrated platform focused on developing, owning, and managing apartment communities in more than 20…
Coworking operator Workbar will open a 10,000-square-foot new location in Somerville’s Union Square, within the new USQ mixed-use development adjacent to the Union Square MBTA station. Housed in the Prospect Union Square residential tower at 50 Prospect St., the company will be the second commercial tenant signed…
TA Realty acquired Featherstone Industrial Park, a fully leased 734,606-square-foot, 13-building industrial warehouse portfolio in Northern Virginia, for $132 million from a joint venture of Rosenthal Properties and Stockbridge. The purchase price represents approximately 27 percent more than the sellers paid for the property in 2021, and the asset is fully occupied by 45 tenants across various industries.
The article examines the Fourth & Central project, a 7.6-acre mixed-use development by the Rauch family in downtown Los Angeles that received City Council approval on June 30, 2026, after a five-year process beginning with its 2021 unveiling. The $2 billion project will include 1,589 residential units (with nearly one in seven planned as affordable), office and retail space across 10 buildings, and is expected to signal renewed development momentum downtown while helping to physically connect previously fragmented neighborhoods like Little Tokyo, the Arts District, and Skid Row.
Mass Development secured a $45 million construction loan from SCALE Lending, a subsidiary of Slate Property Group, to build an 11-story condominium complex at 264-272 West 135th Street in Harlem comprising 72 units ranging from studios to three-bedroom units, with completion targeted for summer 2028. The 30-month floating-rate loan includes two six-month extension options, and the project will feature ground-floor retail and community space already leased to a day care operator, plus top-floor amenities including a fitness center, spa, and lounge.
A Washington, D.C.-based housing watchdog group is accusing the country’s largest apartment owner of unlawfully rejecting potential renters who hold Section 8 vouchers across six states.
Alterra IOS announced the closing of a $400 million refinancing led by Truist Financial Corp. and KeyBank, supporting the continued expansion of its growing industrial outdoor storage platform. Secured by a portfolio of 99 IOS properties spanning 27 states, the financing was executed utilizing an equity pledge…
Knightbridge and Argosy acquired a two-building office portfolio for $14 million. The buildings, Three Maroon, built in 2001, and Maroon Five, built in 2008, combined, make up 174,000 square feet. The 4-story buildings sit on 10 acres in the Meridian International Business Center. Mark IV Capital was the seller.…
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Tuesday signed an executive order to create the nation’s first moratorium on new hyperscale data centers. The order temporarily pauses state environmental permits for up to one year in order to build a regulatory framework that protects ratepayers, the environment, the energy grid and…
WareSpace, an operator of micro-bay warehouse space, has acquired 1400 Centre Circle in Downers Grove, Illinois, a 71,689-square-foot industrial property. The site becomes WareSpace’s third location in the Chicago area and second in Downers Grove. Built in 1979 and currently vacant, the property will be…
Congress’ passage of the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, which became law this past weekend without President Trump’s signature, marks “one of the most significant federal housing reform efforts in decades, reflecting a bipartisan shift toward addressing the nation’s affordability problem,” Marcus & Millichap…
The Cabana Motor Hotel along Stemmons Freeway was once a go-to destination in Dallas. The Beatles and Monkees stayed there and Raquel Welch once worked the cocktail lounge. After opening in 1963, the property, which has had numerous owners over the years, including the county jail system, is now being transformed…
Union leaders attributed the near-collapse of the former Pfizer headquarters at 235 East 42nd Street in Midtown Manhattan on July 7, 2026, to deficiencies in New York City's third-party Special Inspection Agency (SIA) approval process, arguing that developers should not hire inspectors paid by themselves to certify construction safety. The article documents union officials' calls for the Department of Buildings to hire more inspectors and eliminate the SIA model, while real estate industry representatives and city officials defended the third-party inspection system as effective and standard practice across the country.
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.
CoStar Group’s chief financial officer is departing at the end of the month. Christian Lown is leaving July 31 to pursue an opportunity outside of the industry, the Arlington-based real estate data firm announced Monday. Robin Rossmann, who leads CoStar’s...
Tristan Capital Partners has provided £340M in senior real estate debt to a joint venture between Goldman Sachs Alternatives and Edge Technologies to refinance the existing construction facility and fund the remaining costs to complete Edge London Bridge. Edge...
Oakland has rewritten the terms of its landmark Coliseum sale to let the buyer break off the Arena and flip it to a third party, a restructuring that speeds the city’s payout and pushes Irving Azoff’s Oak View Group to the front of the race for the venue where the Warriors once played. The Oakland […] The post…
A citizen-led rent-control initiative backed by Faith in Action Bay Area has qualified for Redwood City’s November ballot, setting up a costly showdown over a 46-page ordinance whose eviction, relocation and fee provisions reach far beyond its headline 5 percent rent cap. Redwood City voters will decide in November…
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS — A joint venture between Los Angeles-based PCCP LLC and Houston-based The Dinerstein Cos. has acquired two adjacent student housing communities totaling 1,128 beds near the Texas A&M University campus in College Station. The properties — formerly dubbed 2818 Apartments and Parkway Place —…
NORWALK, CONN. — Avison Young has brokered the $17.9 million sale of The Stonefield, a 55-unit apartment building located in the southern coastal Connecticut city of Norwalk. According to LoopNet Inc., the four-story building was constructed on a 3-acre site at 587 Connecticut Ave. in 2016 and offers one- and…
MIDDLEBOROUGH, MASS. — REXA Inc., a provider of engineered process control solutions, is nearing completion of a 110,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Middleborough, located south of Boston. REXA purchased a parcel within The Campus at Canopy Drive, an approximately 700,000-square-foot development owned by…
MCKINNEY, TEXAS — LITEON Technology Corp., a provider of power management and AI (artificial intelligence) infrastructure solutions, will invest $919 million for a new manufacturing campus in McKinney, located north of Dallas, that is expected to add about 600 new jobs to the local supply. LITEON has purchased more…
CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS — Northmarq has arranged a loan of an undisclosed amount for the refinancing of the 199-unit Wood River Apartments in Corpus Christi. Built in 1983, Wood River Apartments offers one-, two- and three-bedroom units across 17 two-story buildings, as well as a pool and pet facilities. Cheryl…
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…
KYLE, TEXAS — California-based investment firm Haven Housing has acquired Hays Park Apartments, a 309-unit apartment community located south of Austin in Kyle. The garden-style property sits on 14.9 acres and features a mix of one- and two-bedroom units with an average size of 807 square feet. Amenities include a…
Cover2 Capital is building a 20-story, $100 million apartment tower close to the border of Highland Park. Dubbed The Savannah, the development will include a rooftop pool and only 100 units. Units are expected to average 1,800 square feet and the Dallas Business Journal reports rents will be on the high end of the…
CBRE arranged the sale of The Tyler, a 320-unit multifamily community in Gilbert, Arizona. CBRE’s Asher Gunter, Matt Pesch and Austin Groen represented the seller, StreetLights Residential. Camden Property Trust acquired the property. The Tyler offers studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans. Community…
JLL has secured a $275 million refinancing and a $57 million mezzanine financing for NEMA Chicago, a luxury multifamily tower and the city’s tallest all-rental residence. JLL represented the borrower, Crescent Heights, in facilitating the five-year, fixed-rate loan through New York Life Insurance Company. JLL also…
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…
Ben Brown, co-president and head of real estate in the Americas for Brookfield, discusses the company's aggressive acquisition and disposition activity, noting that Brookfield has executed approximately $9 billion in credit originations, $21.5 billion in equity dispositions, and $32.3 billion in acquisitions over the past 18 months while raising $13.2 billion in new capital. Brown highlights Brookfield's strategic focus on logistics and housing investments, including major acquisitions like Peakstone, and emphasizes that despite high financing costs making new office development difficult to underwrite, strong fundamentals in sectors like luxury hospitality and rental housing continue to create investment opportunities as public market valuations lag underlying real estate recovery.
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.
S3 Capital provided a $24 million construction loan to Ampere Capital Group for a six-story, 109-unit mixed-use multifamily project with 14,500 square feet of retail space at 1640 North Hancock Street in Philadelphia's Fishtown neighborhood. The 122,804-square-foot development, designed by HDO Architecture and comprising studios, one- and two-bedroom apartments, is slated for completion in late 2027.
Gov. Kathy Hochul signed an executive order Tuesday to impose a yearlong ban on data center construction, making New York the first state to block the development of large-scale server farms. The moratorium deals a blow to New York’s $10B data center...
BETHESDA, Md. — Frank Cassidy has rejoined Walker & Dunlop as senior managing director, following his tenure as commissioner of the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) and assistant secretary for housing at… The post Frank Cassidy Returns to Walker & Dunlop as Senior Managing Director appeared first on Seniors…
Caltrans is closing out its $511.1 million Fix 50 corridor overhaul in Sacramento this month, capping a multiyear rebuild that added carpool lanes and resurfaced aging pavement but landed roughly $100 million over budget and about a year behind its original schedule. The California Department of Transportation this…
San Francisco’s planning commission has certified the environmental review required to pursue a public takeover of PG&E’s local electric grid, advancing a $3.4 billion bid that the utility insists it will not entertain. San Francisco moved a step closer to seizing control of its own power lines on Thursday, July…
Stockton has consolidated its municipal operations into the rehabilitated Waterfront Towers office complex on the city’s deep-water channel, capping an 8½-year conversion project whose public price tag has swelled from an early estimate of roughly $25 million to a figure now approaching $100 million. Stockton cut…
The Oakland Roots and Oakland Soul soccer clubs will leave the Oakland Coliseum after the 2026 season, redirecting their search toward a club-controlled stadium at the Port of Oakland’s Howard Terminal or the Coliseum site itself, both of which sit inside a tangle of competing ownership plays. The Oakland Roots…
California's Nov. 3 ballot carries 14 measures on housing bonds, a billionaire tax, CEQA reform and property taxes reshaping real estate. The post California’s 14 November Ballot Measures Put $11.25B Housing Bond, CEQA Reform and Billionaire Tax Before Voters appeared first on The Registry Northern California Real…
A California company incorporated only four months ago is courting at least eight Bay Area fairgrounds with a plan to build small data centers, parking garages and helicopter pads on public event land, even as public records show no disclosed funding, no registered subsidiaries and no permits behind its…