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Housing isn’t making anyone happy these days. In a survey of more than 100 principals and executives across private real estate investment firms, Berkadia found that 61 percent of respondents characterized their outlook for the multifamily market in the second half of 2026 as negative, Commercial Observer can first…

Pennrose held the grand opening of Forge, a new mixed-income rental community for individuals and families in Lenox, MA. The community features 65 apartment units across 13 townhome-style buildings, along with a modern clubhouse and shared amenity spaces. “With few affordable housing options in the area, Forge will…

Markets are separating into distinct clusters of momentum. The post A More Localized Multifamily Recovery Emerges appeared first on Lument .

GREA announced the sale of Glenwood Station, a newly delivered 159,000-square-foot, 86-unit luxury apartment development located in downtown Glen Ellyn, Illinois. The transit-oriented property was developed by Holladay Properties and opened to residents in the spring of 2025. The GREA Chicago team of Christopher…

Brooklyn-based Heights Advisors has filed a land use application to build 606 mixed-income apartments in the Soundview section of the Bronx. The 21-story, 515,000-quare-foot mixed-use building at 945 White Plains Rd. would rise on a site currently occupied by a low-rise retail building housing Modell’s Sporting…

Seth Real Estate's plan to turn the former HMRC office block into 95 apartments will now progress to a Gateway 2 submission. The post Imperial Court conversion clears planning hurdle appeared first on Place North West .

BRANSON, MO. — On July 28, an entity doing business as 200 Bee Creek LLC acquired Bee Creek Apartments in Branson for $26.3 million. The property, located at 200 Buzz… The post LLC Buys Bee Creek in Branson, Missouri, for $26.3M appeared first on Multifamily & Affordable Housing Business .

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Tishman Speyer has acquired Berkshire Dilworth, a 296-community in Charlotte. The purchase was completed with equity from a core-plus fund. The seller was Berkshire Residential. This marks… The post Tishman Speyer Acquires Charlotte Asset for $76.3M appeared first on Multifamily & Affordable…

LAND O’ LAKES, FLA. — NexMetro has opened Avilla Silver Palm, a 180-home build-to-rent community in Land O’ Lakes, about 20 miles north of Tampa, Florida. This is NexMetro’s third… The post NexMetro Opens Third BTR Avilla Community in Metro Tampa appeared first on Multifamily & Affordable Housing Business .

PORT ST. LUCIE, FLA. — The NRP Group has broken ground on a 312-unit luxury apartment complex located within the master-planned community of Tradition in Port St. Lucie. Situated on approximately 18 acres, the project will comprise 10 three-story buildings offering a mix of one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments…

CEDARst Companies has closed on construction financing and launched construction on a 197-unit multifamily development, The Samuel, located at the corner of Adams Avenue and Idaho Street in San Diego’s North Park neighborhood. CrossHarbor Capital Partners provided an $80,000,000 construction loan for the project.…

Bruntwood chief executive Chris Oglesby has mplans to convert the upper floors of the St Ann’s Square asset into apartments, including a penthouse taking up the entirety of the top floor. The post Oglesby puts in for Winters Building conversion appeared first on Place North West .

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…

Varia US joins Brookfield in a $694M joint venture focusing on high-quality U.S. multifamily properties.

An entity tied to Fortress Investment Group has sold the 91-unit apartment building at 520 Geary Street near San Francisco's Union Square to a Burlingame investor for $18.475 million, marking a roughly 50 percent markdown from what the property fetched at the market's 2018 peak. The post Fortress-Tied Owner Sells…

MAUSTON, WIS. — CBRE has negotiated the $3.9 million sale of Riverwood Apartments in Mauston, about 70 miles northwest of Madison. The 32-unit multifamily community was fully leased at the time of sale. The property consists of four buildings on 3.2 acres along the Lemonweir River. Built in 1994, Riverwood…

ST. CLOUD, FLA. — Berkadia has arranged a $19.1 million loan for Miami-based Bayshore Investment Partners’ (BIP) acquisition of Ibis Park at Harmony West in St. Cloud, about 30 miles… The post Bayshore Investment Partners Acquires Metro Orlando BTR Development for $29.4M, Berkadia Arranges Acquisition Loan appeared…

NEW YORK CITY — High Street Residential has topped out The Marq, a 25-story apartment building in Manhattan’s SoHo neighborhood. The Marq will offer 99 units, 25 of which will be reserved as affordable housing, as well as 2,072 square feet of retail space. Amenities will include a gym, sauna, meditation room,…

Miami developer Aconcagua Group has landed $35 million of construction financing to complete a multifamily project in Miami-Dade County, Commercial Observer has learned. S3 Capital provided the loan for the third and final phase of the 374-unit Casa Princeton apartment community in Princeton, Fla. The deal closed…

LOS ANGELES — Walker & Dunlop has arranged a $33.2 million agency-backed loan for the acquisition of Palm Court Apartments in Los Angeles’ Miracle Mile neighborhood. Bryan Frazier, Blake Hockenbury, Steven Paskover, Sheri Blackburn and Dillon Hoffman of Walker & Dunlop Capital Markets Real Estate Financing secured…

Sack Capital Partners, a San Francisco-based real estate investment and management firm, and Align Finance Partners have closed structured financing for Step Up Housing’s acquisition of two California multifamily communities: Copper Creek, a 268-unit community in Sacramento; and Terramonte at Foothill, a 138-unit…

FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Trademark Property Co. has completed The Vickery, a 321-unit multifamily project in downtown Fort Worth. Designed by GFF and developed in partnership with SCOA Real Estate Partners, The Vickery consists of 307 apartments, 14 townhomes and a 5,300-square-foot restaurant with a second-story…

Related Group recently paid $9.3 million for a development site at a Fort Lauderdale office park at 6700 N. Andrews Ave. Naya USA was the seller. CPN West retained ownership of the 309,243-square-foot office building there. Last year, Related Group filed plans to develop the vacant portion of this site with…

Berkadia brokered the sale of MacArthur Park, a 290-unit, garden-style multifamily property in Augusta, Georgia. Christian DiCroce, Jim Sewell, Dave Lansbury, and Erika Maston of Berkadia Charleston led the transaction on behalf of ATC Development, the seller. MacArthur Park sold for $40.6 million and the sales…

On July 20, President Donald Trump signed three proclamations under Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930. The trade proclamations are scheduled to take effect on Aug. 19, 2026, and will impose a 50% tariff on certain goods entering the United States, including cement and plywood. Matt Long is a partner at Porter…

Varia US Properties AG, the Swiss-listed investor in the U.S. multifamily sector, externally managed by Stoneweg, an SWI Group Company, has formed a US$693.9 million two-vehicle joint venture with affiliates of Brookfield Asset Management for 13 of Varia’s 17-property U.S. multifamily portfolio. The JV provides…

The buzzword at this year’s Connect CRE Texas Multifamily conference was a dirty one: fraud. As industry experts gathered at the Joule in Downtown Dallas to discuss the Lone Star State’s once-blazing apartment market, conversations among the event’s panelists repeatedly visited the sorry state of Texas’ Class C…

Single-family permitting activity continued to weaken through the first half of 2026, while multifamily permitting remained somewhat stronger compared with the same period last year. Over the first six months of the year, the number of single-family permits issued nationwide reached 465,301. Compared with the same…

Vantage Communities has obtained a $103 million refinancing for a three-property, 864-unit multifamily portfolio located in the Austin and San Antonio metro areas. Benefit Street Partners provided the financing in a deal arranged by Greystone Capital Advisors. The properties in Austin include Vantage at McKinney…

Grange Residences, located in prime District 10, topped the list of apartments and condos that scored fresh psf-price highs from July 28 to Aug 4. A 2,852 sq ft, four-bedroom unit fetched $10.8 million on July 31, setting a record of $3,786 psf at the freehold condo. The latest deal surpasses Grange Residences’…

PORTLAND, ORE. — JLL has arranged a $40.5 million refinancing loan for The Payton, a 162-unit Class A property in Portland’s Lloyd District area. San Diego-based ColRich is the borrower/owner.… The post ColRich Secures $40.5M Refinancing for Luxury Pacific Northwest Property appeared first on Multifamily &…

Average Manhattan apartment rents reached an all-time high of $6,655 in July, according to Corcoran Sunshine Marketing Group. Median rents held steady at June’s record-setting level of $5,295, up 6% from a year ago. “Meanwhile, the number of signed leases rose 3% annually, while inventory dropped a substantial 22%…

Multifamily developers are building hundreds of units in the Lehigh Valley as the region contends with population growth and a housing shortage.

The Westphal Company has secured $56.1 million in permanent financing for a 354-unit apartment complex in eastern San Diego County. Northmarq arranged the fixed-rate financing through the firm’s Fannie Mae platform. The nonrecourse loan carries a 10-year term with interest-only payments for the full term. Property…

JLL has secured a $40.5 million refinancing for The Payton, a 162-unit multifamily property in Portland, Oregon. JLL represented the borrower, ColRich, in arranging the five-year, floating-rate loan through Prime Finance. The Payton, located at 2020 NE Multnomah St., is a seven-story mid-rise community built in…

🏆 New Building: The largest permit issued was an $85.6 million new construction permit for Mohawk at Wynwood, a 300-unit apartment project at 50 Northeast 29th Street in Miami. The permit covers 488,880 square feet for Miami-based Rilea Group’s development. In January, the developer secured a $149.2 million…