Multifamily Loan Balances Jumped 53% Since 2019

Jul 22, 2026

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…

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New York City Investment Sales Exceeding 2025 Pace: Report

New York City investment sales dipped 10 percent over the second quarter of 2026, according to Avison Young’s latest property sales report. Under the hood, however, the city’s commercial real estate market is barreling past its 2025 pace. Overall investment sales in New York City rose annually by 60 percent in the…

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Podcast: Building an AI-Powered CRE Operation – Boxer Property President Justin Segal

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…

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NYC’s Conversion Break Producing Far More Units Than New-Construction Sweetener

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…

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The True Costs of New York’s Rent Freeze Will Make Themselves Known

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…

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NYC Landlords Sue Rent Guidelines Board Over Rent Freeze

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…

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Pfizer Incident or Not, New York Still Has a Lot of Office Conversions Left to Go

For a few days last week, two buckling steel columns at the Pfizer Building became the biggest real estate story in America. If you only read the headlines, you might conclude that office-to-residential conversions are suddenly in trouble. The opposite is closer to the truth. Quietly, New York has become the…

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