July 2026

Rithm Capital lands $515m refi for Manhattan office tower

Real Estate Firm Landmark Management Signs 12K-SF Lease at One Grand Central Place

A real estate investment and management firm is relocating its offices to Midtown East, near Grand Central Terminal , Commercial Observer has learned. Landmark Management signed a 12,168-square-foot lease on the 52nd…

Kolter Expands Miami Beach Assemblage for Condo Dev With BH Group

Kolter Group and BH Group have expanded their oceanfront assemblage in Miami Beach’s North Beach neighborhood, where they plan to build a 17-story luxury condo development. In one transaction, Kolter Group bought 10 c…

Apollo Provides $71M Loan for Tribeca Luxury Condo Conversion

A joint venture between Broad Street Development and TPG Angelo Gordon has secured $71 million in construction financing to build 139 Franklin Street, a boutique residential condominium that will deliver up to 18 unit…

Samara launches its first single-family home model in California

Samara , a California builder known for its accessory dwelling unit (ADU) models, has launched Locale by Samara, an expansion into small-scale single-family infill developments, the company announced. The builder will…

JLL secures $332M refinancing for Chicago's tallest all-rental tower

NEMA Chicago is a 76-story luxury residence building designed by Rafael Viñoly, with 70,000 square feet of resort-style amenities CHICAGO, July 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- JLL's Capital Markets group announced today that…

Asset Living names Marti Burrows COO

The nation’s second-largest apartment operator brings in the Nuveen and Greystar veteran after years of strong growth.

BWXT eyes Pronghorn Industrial Park for nuclear fuel fabrication facility, invites community to learn more July 23

BRS seeks probe into land acquisition for proposed Adilabad Mega Industrial Park

Newmark Refis Multifamily Portfolio With $163M Fannie Mae Loan

LaSalle Investment Management has sealed $163 million of Fannie Mae -backed debt to refinance three multifamily properties in Washington, D.C., Northern Virginia and Oregon, Commercial Observer has learned. Newmark ,…

AD Mortgage closes $432.4M non-QM RMBS deal

AD Mortgage announced Monday that it completed its fifth non-QM residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) transaction of 2026, issuing a $432.4 million securitization backed by more than 1,000 residential mortgage…

Greene Broillet & Wheeler, LLP Attorneys Secure $15.5 Million Jury Verdict Against Hyatt After San Diego Jury Finds Safety Failures Led to Guest's Death

SAN DIEGO, July 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- A San Diego County jury awarded $15.5 million to the family of a hotel guest, finding Hyatt Hotels Corporation responsible for her wrongful death after hotel employees failed t…

Austin Office Tower Trades for $151M

Brandywine Realty Trust sold downtown Austin’s 405 Colorado tower for $151 million. Chris Price at Partners was quoted in LinkedIn saying the buyer was Hines and that the 25-story tower is 100% leased. At its annual m…

JMG brings $5.9B brokerage platform to Keller Williams

Keller Williams (KW) has agreed to acquire the Jason Mitchell Group (JMG) , a Scottsdale, Arizona-based brokerage that closed nearly $5.9 billion in sales volume across more than 12,300 transaction sides in 2025 — add…

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

Buyer announced for Rocky River shopping center

Brixmor Picks Up Two Texas Shopping Centers

In this year’s second quarter, Brixmor Property Group Inc. acquired two Texas retail centers. The company paid $46.5 million for Jones Crossing in College Station, Texas, home to Texas A&M University. The center…

AI likely to strengthen large mortgage lenders without disrupting industry, KBW says

Artificial intelligence is unlikely to upend the mortgage industry, but it could make the biggest lenders even stronger by lowering costs, speeding up loan production and accelerating industry consolidation, according…

News | Blackstone returns to CMBS market with $950 million industrial portfolio refinance

Cavan Spins Off Phoenix BTR Community for $112.5M

Cavan Cos. has sold The Bungalows on Camelback, a 334-unit, build-to-rent asset in Phoenix, for $112.5 million. That comes out to about $337,000 a unit. A private individual acquired the property. This deal marked the…

From NAIOP to CREDA: New Name, Expanded Scope, Same Mission

The rebranding of NAIOP to the Commercial Real Estate Development Association didn’t occur overnight—the association has worked for years on crafting its new identity. Nor is it the first time the organization has und…

Predictive analytics for real estate: Best tools + guide

Have you ever been prospecting and wished you could read minds to know exactly who’s ready to sell? While telepathy isn’t an option, predictive analytics will get you pretty close. Predictive analytics in real estate…

REIT Values Are Hard to See Sometimes

R eal estate investment trusts have earned a relatively clean bill of health in 2026, so far. After a prolonged period of underperformance, the investment vehicles for publicly traded real estate — widely known as REI…

Jones Walker Further Expands Pensacola Office, Welcomes Real Estate Partner Charles James

PENSACOLA, Fla., July 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Jones Walker LLP announced today that Charles James has joined the firm as a partner in the Corporate Practice Group and member of the real estate team in the firm's Pens…

Century Complete brings new homes on large homesites to popular Triangle, NC area

Top national homebuilder offering modern 3- and 4-bedrooms homes from the high $200s in Sanford, NC SANFORD, N.C., July 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Century Communities, Inc. (NYSE: CCS)—a top national homebuilder, indust…

Archer Aviation Leases Entire 501,000-SQFT Cochrane Technology Center in Morgan Hill to Scale Air Taxi Production

Air taxi maker Archer Aviation has committed to all five buildings at Trammell Crow Company’s 30-acre Cochrane Technology Center in Morgan Hill, a full-campus deal that hands the fast-growing eVTOL manufacturer more t…

SM Flores Files Plans for 80-Unit, Seven-Story Apartment Project at 2555 Flores Street in San Mateo

A locally based developer is moving to convert an aging San Mateo office parcel into 80 apartments, betting on a Peninsula rental market that analysts expect to tighten sharply through the rest of the decade. SM Flore…

News | Private equity firm snaps up shopping center in fast-growing South Carolina city

StreetLights Residential Completes 134-Unit Apartment Building in Houston

HOUSTON — Dallas-based developer StreetLights Residential has completed The Langley, a 134-unit apartment building located near Rice University in Houston’s Museum District. The Langley is a 20-story building that hou…

Sundance Bay Snags $95.7M Financing on Two Texas Rental Communities

Sundance Bay obtained financing totalling $95.7 million for a 626-unit two-property Texas portfolio. Cushman & Wakefield’s Texas Equity, Debt & Structured Finance (EDSF) arranged the financing, which consists of $76.2…

JLL Brokers Sale of 72,184 SF Shopping Center in Northwest Houston

HOUSTON — JLL has brokered the sale of Vintage Marketplace, a 72,184-square-foot shopping center in northwest Houston. Whole Foods Market anchors the center, which was roughly 95 percent leased at the time of sale. Ot…

What’s next for massive industrial park proposed near inland port in northeast Hall County

Hawk Logistics Signs 26,707 SF Industrial Lease in East Fort Worth

FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Hawk Logistics has signed a 26,707-square-foot industrial lease in East Fort Worth. The space is located within Building 1 of the Riverbend East development. Tomas Wilson, Alex Wilson and Mark Gray…

LACERA’s real estate head departs after two years

Terri Herubin was charged with overseeing a major restructuring of the California pension plan’s property portfolio.

Lee & Associates Negotiates 20,092 SF Industrial Lease in McKinney, Texas

MCKINNEY, TEXAS — Lee & Associates has negotiated a 20,092-square-foot industrial lease in the northern Dallas suburb of McKinney. The space is located within Building 2 at McKinney Trade Center. Brett Lewis and Taylo…

Crestline, PLG Lend $59M on Dallas-Area Condos

Start your engines! Holigan Investments has sealed $58.7 million of construction financing to develop a condominium project in suburban Dallas that features luxury garages geared toward car enthusiasts, Commercial Obs…

CREFC's 2Q 2026 BOG Sentiment Index Steadies Near Baseline as CRE Finance Sentiment Moves from Shock to Caution

NEW YORK, July 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The CRE Finance Council (CREFC), the trade association for the commercial real estate finance industry, today released its Second-Quarter 2026 (2Q26) Board of Governors (BOG) Se…

Blackstone prices two UK CMBS, parcelling venues and warehouses

MetroTex MLS to match NTREIS broker rewards for high-quality listing data

MetroTex MLS will match monetary rewards paid to its broker participants under the new North Texas Real Estate Information Systems, Inc. (NTREIS) Rewards-2025 Program , doubling financial incentives for brokers who pr…

Allen Féliz of MRI Software: 5 Questions

At midnight last Friday, the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act became law despite President Donald Trump announcing that he would not sign the bipartisan legislation. The law was enacted after the constitutionally mand…

UDR Offloads Nashville Apartments After 31 Year Hold

Covenant Capital Group paid $41.5 million for Legacy Hill, a 206-unit multifamily community in Nashville. Multihousing News reports UDR sold the property after 31 years of ownership. Walker & Dunlop facilitated the tr…

News | Foulger Pratt refinances apartment complex across from Montgomery Mall in Bethesda

Newmark Arranges $132M Sale of Northern Virginia Industrial Portfolio

Newmark has arranged the $132 million sale of the Featherstone Industrial Portfolio, a 13-building, 734,606-square-foot industrial portfolio in Woodbridge, Virginia, approximately 23 miles south of Washington, D.C. Ne…

All of real estate is becoming hospitality. Most owners haven’t noticed.

The Real Deal just reported that Miami-Dade office rents have entered a new era. Top deals regularly clear $150 a square foot, jewel-box buildings push past $200 per square foot and one tower is finalizing a lease at…

AI Is Confidently Wrong About Your Hotel and the Guest Arrives Believing It, the Org Chart Is a Revenue Problem, AI Shifts Hotels from Pricing to Personalization

Monday opened with hospitality.today's warning that AI tools are describing hotels from outdated sources and guests arrive expecting what no longer exists, a Les Roches argument that the traditional hotel org chart fr…

Apaleo appoints Connor Neeson to lead growth across the UK & Ireland

Apaleo names Connor Neeson as Country Lead for UK and Ireland, targeting operators still reliant on legacy PMS as pressure mounts to modernise technology infrastructure.

Olema Oncology Leases 38,000 SQFT at Kilroy Oyster Point, Moving Headquarters to South San Francisco

Clinical-stage breast cancer company Olema Oncology has committed to 38,176 square feet at Kilroy Realty’s 365 Oyster Point Boulevard under a seven-year lease, relocating its headquarters out of San Francisco and push…

Spear Street Capital Buys Lower Manhattan Office, Retail Building for $50.5M

NEW YORK CITY — San Francisco-based investment firm Spear Street Capital has purchased 76 Eighth Avenue, a 10-story office and retail building in Lower Manhattan, for $50.5 million. The 35,620-square-foot building was…

San Francisco Warns Developers: Build Stalled Office Projects or Forfeit Prop M Allocations

San Francisco’s planning chief has moved to reclaim dormant office development rights from developers sitting on long-stalled downtown projects, threatening to strip their Proposition M allocations as City Hall races…

JLL Negotiates $25.1M Sale of Two Multifamily Development Sites in Brooklyn

NEW YORK CITY — JLL has negotiated the sale of two multifamily development sites in the Crown Heights area of Brooklyn for a combined price of $25.1 million. The sites at 1029 Dean St. and 1104 Pacific St., which trad…