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Brookfield Eyes Stake In $3.5B Manhattan Office Campus

Brookfield is in talks to take a 10% stake in Hudson Square Properties, a 13-building office complex on the West Side of Manhattan. The deal would value the 6.2M SF campus, which is positioning itself as a nucleus for tech and media tenants in the city,...

Hines Pays $151M To Buy Austin Office Tower From Brandywine

Hines is returning to the office market with a $151M bet on Austin. The global real estate investment management giant acquired a 206K SF office at 405 Colorado St. from Brandywine Realty Trust as it selectively targets trophy office assets with high...

MEAG Expands Dublin Residential With Fourth Irish Acquisition In 6 Months

Munich Re asset manager MEAG has strengthened its growing Irish real estate portfolio with the acquisition of the Seafield Strand apartment scheme in Sutton, North Dublin, for an undisclosed sum, marking its fourth investment in the capital in little...

Meta Ups Investment To $50B For Its Largest Data Center Project

Social media giant Meta has expanded its already massive data center development in Richland Parish, Louisiana. The company announced Monday that its Hyperion data center campus will have 5 gigawatts of computing capacity and bring more than $50B...

Chicago's Older Apartments Are Running Out Of Room To Raise Rent

Class-C apartment operators in Chicago are buoyed by many of the tailwinds bolstering the city’s multifamily market as a whole: limited new supply, rising rent growth and recovering investor interest. But rising operating costs have squeezed margins...

Bowser Unveils Suite Of Proposals To Revamp D.C. Housing Policy

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is leaving office in six months, but she’s full steam ahead on her effort to revamp the city’s housing policy.

Mavik Capital Looks To Raise $1B, Targeting Distressed Real Estate

Investment firm Mavik Capital Management is looking to raise capital for a new distress fund. The New York-based firm seeks to raise $1B to acquire distressed commercial real estate assets, Bloomberg reported. The money will go into a new fund called...

JLL Finds 'Remarkable Change' In Greater Boston's Lab Demand

The life sciences real estate sector in Greater Boston still has a deep hole to dig out of, with millions of square feet of lab buildings sitting vacant, but a new report shines a positive light on the future of the market’s demand.

They May Prefer Texas, But Data Center Developers Aren't Giving Up On California

Texas has surpassed California as the top data center market in the western half of the U.S., and the gap between the two states is only getting wider. But while California may be a more challenging place to develop digital infrastructure, there is...

Denver's Population Slowdown Is A Hurdle For Otherwise Stable Industrial Market

The local industrial market has remained stable amid economic uncertainty, but experts speaking at Bisnow’s Denver Industrial Outlook said population growth is needed to make Denver a top-tier market. “The No. 1 thing that has to change is population...

FIRST DRAFT LIVE: 'Not Happy, But Comfortable': CREFC President On CRE Finding A New Normal

Bisnow’s First Draft Live is a regular series featuring live conversations about the critical stories impacting CRE right now. It is a companion to The First Draft, Bisnow’s daily, flagship CRE newsletter. Register here to get The First Draft in your...

Data Center Pipeline Slows As Canceled Projects Pile Up

Despite soaring demand for artificial intelligence capacity, there are signs that the pipeline of data centers is slowing. While the development of data centers is still at record levels and is driving overall growth in U.S. construction, the number...

Bankruptcies Are Rising, Putting More Real Estate Up For Negotiation

Reemerging inflation and stubbornly high interest rates — paired with shifting consumer preferences — are driving a surge in corporate bankruptcy filings, resulting in widespread real estate portfolio cullings and restructurings.

Blue Owl Launches Data Center Infrastructure Venture

Blue Owl Capital is launching a new venture that will develop, own and operate fiber networks in an effort to capitalize on the data center boom. Funds managed by Blue Owl announced the creation of Kirkwood Infrastructure Group to carry out the development...

Philly Office Construction Pipeline Hits Zero, Conversion Activity Slows

More than six years after the pandemic cratered demand for greater Philadelphia office space, the region’s construction pipeline has officially hit zero. The delivery of Chubb’s long-awaited 438K SF build-to-suit space at 2000 Arch St. last quarter...

SURVEY: Neutral Is The New Normal For CRE Investors

Top leaders in commercial real estate finance aren’t exactly sanguine about the year ahead, but they are at least feeling less pessimistic, a new CRE Finance Council survey found.

Office Vacancy Falls In More Than Half Of Major U.S. Cities

It’s not just New York and California — the office market is getting healthier across the country.

Stanhope And Norges Go Hunting As Sovereign Fund Pivots Strategy

UK developer and asset manager Stanhope has won a mandate to manage a £4B portfolio of London and Paris office assets on behalf of Norges Bank Investment Management, the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund. The companies will also partner up to look...

EXCLUSIVE: Google To Occupy 600K SF Of Redeveloped Chicago Landmark

Plans for Google's highly anticipated Thompson Center redevelopment are nearing completion, almost four years after the tech giant announced its intent to move into the iconic Central Loop building, with the company expected to occupy more than half of...

Construction Begins On AmEx's World Trade Center HQ As Campus Enters 'Momentous' New Era

Nearly a quarter century after the 9/11 terrorist attacks leveled the World Trade Center towers, work on the new campus’ final new office tower is underway.

Fed's Hawkish Minutes Keep Pressure On CRE Financing

The Federal Reserve is growing increasingly worried about inflation.

Industrial’s Fire Problem: Warehouses Are Bigger, Colder, Harder To Save

Back-to-back blazes in Los Angeles and Chicago have highlighted how today’s bigger, more technologically advanced warehouses, especially those outfitted for cold storage, are at greater risk for fire. Developers are racing to build larger, more centralized...

DFW On Track For Fourth Straight Record Year For Retail Occupancy

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,...

World Cup Delivers Assist For U.S. Hotels, But Not At Super Bowl Scale

As global soccer superstars like Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbappé and Erling Haaland delight fans with an onslaught of goals at the 2026 FIFA World Cup, U.S. hoteliers are getting their first meaningful look at the tournament’s economic impact.

Why CRE's Fed Rate Cut Obsession Might Be Backward

CRE has spent years focusing on Federal Reserve rate cuts as the key to unlocking the market. But recent research from Newmark argues that the framing gets causality backward — Fed decisions to lower rates typically coincide with deteriorating labor...

Mortgage Lenders Scramble To Prove They're Policing Their Own AI

On its path to ubiquity, artificial intelligence has seeped into mortgage lending. Regulators are racing to catch up.The same forces in the tech world that created the “move fast and break things” ethos are driving AI’s adoption today. With no overarching...

Federal Housing Bill Becomes Law Without Trump's Signature

The most significant federal housing legislation in decades became law at midnight without President Donald Trump's support. Trump canceled plans to sign the 21st Century Road to Housing Act on June 24 after it passed with support from broad, bipartisan...

62 Real Estate Insiders On A Year That Took A Turn, And What They're Doing About It

For Lease: 2 Iconic 'Metroburb' Buildings Offering Prime Office Space In New Jersey

Two historic New Jersey buildings — the iconic Bell Labs headquarters in Holmdel and the former Commvault campus in Tinton Falls — have been reborn as Bell Works and are redefining what an office campus can be. Inspired by Somerset Development reimagined...