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A Golden apartment complex traded hands in a rare multifamily sale in the Denver suburb. Las Vegas-based Sierra Parkway Communities bought the Fox Hill Apartments, a 153-unit community at 17611 West 16th Avenue in Golden, for $32 million, the Denver Business Journal reported. The price pencils out to $209,000 per…
Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust is slamming the door shut on the self-storage sector. BREIT sold its final 79 assets in the sector during the second quarter, Bisnow reported, citing the firm’s second-quarter earnings report. BREIT scored an $852 million deal from the sale, netting $177 million in gains from the…
A vacant 19-story office tower in downtown Phoenix is getting a second life as a 340-room J.W. Marriott, marking a $200 million bet on the city’s still-evolving hospitality market. Las Vegas-based LaPour Partners is converting the tower at 400 East Van Buren Street in the Arizona Center, adding restaurants, a pool,…
A Seattle apartment building with a history tied to the World’s Fair traded hands in the buyer’s biggest deal yet. Bellevue-based Nordic Partners Investments bought the 107-unit property at 415 Boren Avenue in First Hill for $14.4 million, the Puget Sound Business Journal reported. The acquisition is the largest to…
Erez Asset Management successfully pushed for the sale of two real estate investment trusts in recent months. The activist investor is setting its sights on its next target: UMH Properties. Erez chair Bruce Schanzer called on UMH’s board to conduct a “thoughtful” review of strategic alternatives, according to a…
Anthropic is angling to rival OpenAI in the race for data centers, partnering with a pair of prominent firms to ease the cost of the endeavor. The Claude company is teaming up with Macquarie Asset Management and Singaporean wealth fund GIC to form Theseus Infrastructure, Bloomberg reported. Macquarie and GIC will…
Marcel Arsenault is making a contrarian bet on the United States office market. In fact, it’s in his company’s latest real estate fund’s name. Colorado-based Real Capital Solutions launched RCS Contrarian Office Fund, the Commercial Observer reported. The fund launched with $350 million already raised, including…
This is a monster-sized post because the largest real estate brokerage company in the world is gaslighting us about private listings. It will be interesting to see if the inquiries by the House Judiciary Committee and Senator Warren will mean anything. Compass is launching its “Fall Marketing Playbook,” which…
U.S.-focused real estate investment trusts delivered the strongest returns for investors over the past decade, with data-center REITs emerging as the standout performer. Research by George Mason University finance professor Derek Horstmeyer, published by the Wall Street Journal, found that U.S.-focused REITs…
Condo shoppers can find deals in the Denver market. Median condo values in the region have fallen 14.3 percent from their 2022 peak of $370,000, Denverite reported, citing an analysis by local real estate agent Cooper Thayer. For the broader attached-home market that includes condos, townhomes and duplexes, median…
Post Brothers is putting a pair of multifamily buildings on the market in Philadelphia, trying to seize on the rising rental market in the city. Post listed The Darien at 815 Poplar Street and The Poplar at 900 North 9th Street for sale, the Philadelphia Business Journal reported. No asking price was given for the…
Derek Jeter is taking a swing at developing in a major college town near you. Alum, a hospitality and real estate company backed by the former New York Yankees star, officially launched its business this week. Jeter will serve as a board adviser, ambassador and investor in the company. Co-founded by Paul Brenneke…
A fight over one of the Simon family’s real estate holdings spilled into court. Simon Property Group co-founder Herb Simon accused the family of his late nephew, David Simon, of orchestrating a last-minute corporate restructuring that stripped longtime investors of valuable rights, Inside Indiana Business reported.…
Panera Bread is giving the suburban Boston office market a toasty piece of news. The company is relocating its headquarters from St. Louis — where it was founded — to Weston, Massachusetts. Panera is taking 102,000 square feet at BXP’s 133 Boston Post Road, according to the Boston Business Journal. Financial…
Onyx Partners is pinching pennies to acquire JCPenney’s stores After a first failed attempt to sweep up a portfolio of hundreds of the retailer’s stores, New Jersey-based Onyx submitted a fresh bid of $934 million, CoStar reported. There are 117 stores in the real estate portfolio available, breaking down the offer…
Tishman Speyer is moving into the Charlotte market with a bang: a $76.3 million purchase of a multifamily complex in Dilworth. The Berkshire Dilworth complex at 1351 East Morehead Street has 296 units that span floorplans from studio to two bedrooms. The ground floor of the complex has 3,000 square feet of space…
Marc Rowan is riding to Barry Sternlicht’s rescue when it comes to liquidity at the latter’s real estate investment trust. Apollo Global Management is investing more than $1 billion in a joint venture with Starwood Real Estate Income Trust, Bloomberg reported. The infusion will allow the Starwood entity to repay…
Another multifamily community in Greater Phoenix sold to an out-of-state investor. San Diego-based ColRich acquired the Avia 266 apartments at 2354 West University Drive in Mesa for $52.4 million, AZ Big Media reported. Beverly Hills-based Geringer Capital was the seller of the 267-unit property, which will be…
With the chill cast by the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act set aside, players are returning to the build-to-rent space with aplomb. PCCP and Integrity Community Builders formed a joint venture to develop communities in the sector across the country, the Commercial Observer reported. The joint venture plans to pour…
The first thing you notice is the dust. It hangs over the rolling hills of a former horse farm outside Carlisle, Pennsylvania, as construction crews move mounds of dirt and drill through bedrock. Home to a stretch of the Appalachian Trail, Cumberland County still looks much as it has for generations, with farms and…
JPMorgan Chase is putting its money where its American Dream Initiative is. On Monday, the bank announced a goal to spend more than $750 billion on housing efforts through 2035, a 40 percent decade-over-decade increase in the company’s housing capital deployment. The announcement comes months after the company…
Homeowners associations are taking a harder line on residents as they face higher costs and tighter margins. Foreclosure filings are rising sharply as mounting costs leave community boards with little room to absorb delinquent payments, the Wall Street Journal reported. There were more than 6,300 properties with…
I’ve spilled a lot of digital ink on the topic of monopolistic behavior I’ve observed in the housing market as of late, so I thought I’d look back to the peak Rockefeller era of bad behavior. John D. Rockefeller Sr. was the architect of Standard Oil’s dominance, the person who built the monopoly machine we’re still…
First, it was the Bay Area. Then the wave crashed into New York City. Now, the artificial intelligence leasing frenzy, which just pushed the tech industry’s share of the United States office market to an all-time high of 23 percent, has touched down in Seattle and Boston. On a list of cumulative AI leasing activity…
If the nation’s capital is looking to expose one of its worst housing violators, it need look no further than itself. The District of Columbia Housing Authority ranks first on a housing violations dashboard kept by the D.C. Department of Buildings, NOTUS reported. The affordable housing organization counts more…
New York City’s office-to-residential boom has been operating under a microscope for the past month, and that’s simply because office buildings have become too valuable to get wrong. That notion was on display again this week when the Department of Buildings issued a partial stop-work order at SL Green’s conversion…
It was 50 years ago that the famed blind taste test of Napa and French wines known as the Judgement of Paris crowned the California valley’s vineyards victorious. Overnight, Napa became a global destination synonymous with the world’s best wine. Now, Napa appears poised for another transformative moment. Just an…
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A historic downtown Denver office building that once lined up $17 million in public financing for a residential conversion is on the market after a foreclosure. The 98,600-square-foot, eight-story building at 820 16th Street, marketed as The George rather than its previous name of the Symes Building, is being…
Blackstone is wheeling and dealing when it comes to its industrial real estate holdings, selling a portfolio to a joint venture for a ten-figure sum. PCCP and Stonemont Financial Group acquired the 38-property, 5.9-million-square-foot portfolio from Blackstone for upwards of $1 billion, the Commercial Observer…
Billionaire Charles Koch is the latest in a long line of real estate players ready to cash in on the data center boom. Koch Real Estate Investments, a subsidiary of Koch Inc., is receiving bids for its data center business, Edged. Unknown parties already submitted multiple bids that could result in a valuation of…
Another day, another potential data center company sale, this time involving the cleverly named “Netrality Data Centers.” Private equity behemoth TPG is in exclusive negotiations to acquire the Kansas City-based data center company, Bloomberg reported. The data center firm could be valued anywhere between $2…
A private California investor just spent upwards of $110 million to acquire a build-to-rent community in Phoenix. Scottsdale-based Cavan Companies sold Bungalows on Camelback, a 334-unit low-density residential community, to entities affiliated with Newport Beach-based Marlowe Moy of Golden Horizon Enterprises for…
Real estate private credit’s favorite Wall Street funding stream is on track for its most active year since 2021 — a sign that investors are growing more bullish on the sector’s outlook. Lenders issued $26 billion worth of collateralized loan obligations (CLOs) in the first half of 2026, according to KBRA. If it…
An out-of-state investor made its Washington debut with a $45 million multifamily acquisition in Greater Seattle. Reno, Nevada-based Oso Capital Advisors purchased the 198-unit Bower Village apartment complex in Kent, the Puget Sound Business Journal reported. An affiliate of Canadian real estate investment trust…
Law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett appears poised to sign one of Washington, D.C.’s largest office leases of the year, but the deal may have been disclosed ahead of schedule. The company was said to be “at lease” for 200,000 square feet at Amancio Ortega’s 1445 New York Avenue, Bisnow reported. The deal was…
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