July 2026

News | CyrusOne taps CMBS market for $1.25 billion as grid constraints intensify

Transit-Oriented Fair Lawn Multifamily Scores $67M Construction Loan

PCCP has provided a $66.85-million senior loan to Sterling Properties and Danbro Properties for the construction of Plaza Greene, a 145-unit, Class A, 55+ multifamily community with a ground-floor grocer in Fair Lawn,…

America 250 is a turning point for American homeownership

When Americans think about infrastructure, they think about roads, bridges and broadband. But they should also think about housing. A home is the foundation from which families build their lives: where children grow u…

Kroger to Buy Grocer Giant Eagle in $1.6B Deal

U.S. grocer Kroger has reached a $1.65 billion deal to buy regional supermarket chain Giant Eagle, strengthening its presence in the Midwest and the Mid-Atlantic region. The transaction includes $1.25 billion in cash…

Zillow settles discrimination lawsuit with former employee

Zillow has reached a settlement with former employee Samuel James Herrera in his job discrimination lawsuit. On Wednesday, Herrera, who calls himself “a day-one Zillow employee,” notified Judge Regina Rodriguez, who i…

Starwood raises $10.2B opportunistic fund for real estate

The investment firm will target residential, data center, industrial and hospitality assets as more fund managers eye diversified product types, according to MSCI’s Jim Costello.

Starwood Capital Raises $10.2 Billion For Opportunistic Real Estate Fund

This historic district apartment just hit the Fresno market for $1.7 million

Georgia apartment complex faces receivership as Freddie Mac alleges default

CBRE Arranges $24M Sale of 87-Unit Apartment Property in Seattle

CBRE has arranged a $24.1 million sale of The Q, an 87-unit multifamily community located at 1321 Queen Anne Ave N in Seattle’s Queen Anne neighborhood, to Kite Partners LLC. CBRE’s Mark Zoffel, Peter Wrig…

Industrial park, medical office building top Triad commercial sale for week of June 26

Greenberg Gibbons Closes on Frederick Brickworks Property, Plans $450M Mixed-Use Development

Greenberg Gibbons has closed on the Frederick Brickworks property and will begin construction in July on the $450 million, 65-acre mixed-use destination in Frederick, Maryland, on the former brick manufacturing site.…

TruAmerica Pays $71.5M for Denver Multifamily Community

TruAmerica Multifamily purchased WestLink at Oak Station, at 1665 Pierson St., in Lakewood, for $71.5 million. The Denver Business Journal reports the seller was the Inland Real Estate Group of Cos. Inc. The company h…

Student loan plan phase-out could tighten mortgage affordability

As of July 1, more than 7 million federal student loan borrowers have 90 days to transition to a new repayment option as the Biden administration’s SAVE income-driven repayment plan is officially phased out. The…

Compass International Holdings rolls out Home Platform across brokerage brands

Compass International Holdings , is rolling out its AI-powered Home Platform across its company-owned brokerage brands, marking what the company calls the largest technology deployment in residential real estate histo…

Peninsula Land & Capital Acquires 152,300-SQFT Office Complex in San Jose for $25MM

With Silicon Valley office vacancy at a 22.5 percent ceiling and a construction pipeline at a 14-year low, Peninsula Land & Capital’s $25 million purchase of 152,300 square feet at Gateway Place — nearly half its asse…

Intel Foundry Breaks Ground on 102,000 SQFT EUV Photomask Facility at Santa Clara’s Bowers Campus

Intel has started construction on a three-story mask-making complex at its Bowers Campus in Santa Clara, a compact but strategically loaded project that anchors the chipmaker’s next-generation manufacturing to Silicon…

TitleEase accelerates growth as franchise model gains traction

TitleEase is gaining momentum as demand grows for its franchise-based title insurance model — backed by a recent capital raise, strategic acquisitions and an expanding pipeline of real estate and mortgage partners. Th…

Denver to Debut Two Aldi Stores

Grocer Aldi is introducing itself to Colorado by opening two Denver-area stores. The first is a location in Denver’s Central Park neighborhood in a retail property. The Denver Business Journal reports the future…

NorthBridge Secures $37M Construction Loan for Billerica Industrial

Cushman & Wakefield arranged a $37-million construction loan for the ground-up development of a two-building industrial park at 315 Treble Cove Rd. in Billerica, MA. The project will deliver 222,050 square feet of Cla…

Rivian Automotive Signs 60,000 SQFT Lease at 4100 Northgate Blvd. in Sacramento

With a distribution center already anchoring Metro Air Park and service outposts in West Sacramento and Rocklin, Rivian’s Northgate lease doesn’t just fill a dead Fry’s — it completes a Sacramento infrastructure stack…

How a changing US immigration landscape is impacting the housing crisis

Housing demand is falling due to restrictive immigration policies, but the affordable housing shortage continues, says the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies.

Renting by choice ‘is really taking over the world’: Korman Communities co-CEO

Co-CEO Brad Korman talked about the future of the multifamily market and challenges in closing big deals in light of rising material costs and higher interest rates.

Renting by choice ‘is really taking over the world’: Korman Communities exec

Co-CEO Brad Korman talked about the future of the multifamily market and the challenges of closing big deals amid rising material costs and higher interest rates.

El Camino Health Completes $149MM, 210,000 SQFT Women’s Hospital Expansion in Mountain View

El Camino Health has wrapped up a four-year, $149 million reconstruction of its Mountain View Women’s Hospital, expanding maternal and neonatal capacity at one of the Bay Area’s busiest delivery centers as California’…

Boston Properties Inc focuses on office real estate strategy as investors assess long-term demand

Zillow says MRED, Compass used MLS rules to pressure its listing standards

The opening day of a high-stakes preliminary injunction hearing in Zillow’ s antitrust lawsuit against Midwest Real Estate Data (MRED) and Compass International Holdings laid out two sharply different stories about wh…

San Francisco Office Leasing Hits 6.1MM SQFT in H1 2026, Best First Half Since 2000 as Vacancy Slides to 30.1%

San Francisco’s office market has strung together its strongest first-half leasing performance in a quarter century, with AI-driven demand pulling vacancy and sublease space down to multi-year lows, according to preli…

Azorim Secures $69M Construction Loan for Yonkers Development

The fourth and final tower in a decade-long, multiphase development in Westchester County just secured construction capital. Israel-based development firm Azorim has secured $68.75 million in construction financing to…

Rare Silicon Valley Heavy Industrial Site Changes Hands

JLL Capital Markets closed the $25.75-million sale of 651 Martin Ave., a 7.17-acre infill industrial development site in Santa Clara. Senior director Erik Hanson and analysts Brendan Bury and Tasman Lynch. represented…

News | Ares expands industrial holdings with Atlanta-area portfolio deal

News | Ares grabs industrial park near Atlanta in $188 million deal

Mill Creek Files Plans to Raze Downtown San Rafael Safeway for 331-Unit Apartment Building

Mill Creek Residential has filed a pre-application to demolish the Safeway anchoring Downtown San Rafael and replace it with an eight-story, 331-unit apartment building, marking the first Bay Area Safeway-to-housing p…

The top 5 reverse mortgage stories from the first half of 2026

With the first half of 2026 in the rearview mirror, the reverse mortgage industry continues to work through a variety of pain points that are keeping origination and securitization levels historically low . HousingWir…

Two Harbors investors approve sale to CCM at $12 per share

Shareholders of Two Harbors Investment Corp . have approved the company’s sale to an affiliate of CrossCountry Mortgage (CCM), ending a months-long contest with rival United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) for control of the…

News | New owner takes over refreshed Hartford-area shopping center

SHAREHOLDER ALERT: The M&A Class Action Firm Continues to Investigate the Merger--FSRL, SYNA, TECH, and NDRA

NEW YORK, July 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Class Action Attorney Juan Monteverde with Monteverde & Associates PC (the "M&A Class Action Firm"), has recovered millions of dollars for shareholders and is recognized as a Top…

Construction to start on St. Johns County apartment complex with affordable housing component

Public opposition, megaproject starts and workforce investments: the latest in data center news

As major players kickoff megaprojects and pour millions into training, many data center builders consider local pushback.

Central Arizona Irrigation and Drainage District Secures Up to 10,000 Acre-Feet Per Year of New Water Supply from Mojave Groundwater Bank

CAIDD and Cadiz Inc. execute MOU for new water supplies to support long-term water reliability in Arizona PHOENIX and CADIZ, Calif., July 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Central Arizona Irrigation and Drainage District ("CAID…

Prime Finance Refis Denver-Area Apartments With $46M Loan

A joint venture between Oak Coast Properties and BMC Investments has sealed a $46.25 million loan to refinance a multifamily asset in suburban Denver, Commercial Observer has learned Prime Finance supplied the floatin…

Levi’s distribution center in NKY closing. More than 300 to lose jobs

LA City Council Approves $2-Billion Fourth & Central Mixed-Use Project

The Los Angeles City Council has approved the $2-billion Fourth & Central mixed-use development plan, among the largest such projects in LA history. Currently occupied by a mix of cold storage facilities, warehouses a…

Does this jobs report kill rate hikes for the rest of 2026?

Oil prices are at $67, the jobs data missed estimates with negative revisions, and mortgage rates are still near yearly highs. So, should the Federal Reserve still be super hawkish after this jobs report? Over the pas…

Avery Hall Investments Plans 250-Unit Mixed-Use Tower in Crown Heights

Avery Hall Investments is cooking up a new 18-story mixed-use development at 1550 Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood. The application submitted to the New York City Department of Buildings on Thur…

Marquis Who's Who Honors Dorothy "Dottie" Herman for Expertise in Real Estate and Financial Planning

UNIONDALE, N.Y., July 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Marquis Who's Who honors Dorothy "Dottie" Herman for her expertise in real estate and financial planning. With more than four decades of professional experience, Ms. Herma…

TEI Makes First Boston Office Acquisition with Deal for 230 Congress St.

Time Equities, Inc. (TEI) has acquired 230 Congress St. in Boston for $32.5 million. The 151,163-square-foot Art Deco building in the Financial District represents New York-based TEI’s first Boston office acquisition,…

Podcast | Building the AI OS for Enterprise CRE, with Fyxt CEO Ryan Botwinick

Ryan Botwinick is the founder and CEO of Fyxt , an AI operating system for commercial real estate that unifies workflows, data, and automation across enterprise portfolios. Ryan came to the problem from both sides, as…

Newly rebuilt Publix opens in Naples in the Neapolitan Way Shopping Center

LCOR Lands $193M for Miami Rental Tower

LCOR has scored a $192.5 million construction loan for a multifamily tower along Biscayne Boulevard near Miami’s Edgewater neighborhood, property records show. The debt from the New York branch of the French bank Nati…