August 2026

Canada to install retaliatory tariffs of up to 50% on US imports

The levies will go into effect Sept. 8 and match the rates of U.S. tariffs on goods such as steel, dairy products, appliances and agricultural equipment.

MDH Partners Buys Serrano Industrial Park in California’s Inland Empire West

MDH Partners Buys Serrano Industrial Park in California’s Inland Empire West

JURUPA VALLEY, CALIF. — Atlanta-based investment firm MDH Partners has purchased Serrano Industrial Park, a Class A manufacturing campus in the Inland Empire city of Jurupa Valley. The new acquisition brings MDH’s Cal…

MDH Partners Purchases Serrano Industrial Park in California’s Inland Empire West

MDH Partners Purchases Serrano Industrial Park in California’s Inland Empire West

JURUPA VALLEY, CALIF. — MDH Partners has purchased Serrano Industrial Park, a Class A manufacturing campus in Jurupa Valley. The new acquisition brings MDH’s California footprint to more than 1.5 million square feet.…

Hanover Co., Crow Holdings Capital to Develop 200,000 SF Industrial Project in Simi Valley, California

SIMI VALLEY, CALIF. — Hanover Co., with Crow Holdings Capital as capital partner, is developing a ground-up industrial project on a 13-acre site at 903 Quimisa Drive in Southeastern California in Simi Valley. The 200,…

Bluegrass Realtors hires Brendan Bailey as CEO

Bailey joins from Denver Metro Association of Realtors after 3 years as CEO, he will also lead Imagine MLS.

Delayed distributions strengthen real estate debt’s role in Pitcairn’s family office portfolio

Carrier Eyeing Fort Worth for $433M Plant

HVAC giant Carrier is seeking the best deal from any one of three cities in a competition to build a $433.8 million manufacturing plant. Fort Worth is one of them. The city is proposing a seven-year tax abatement agre…

Mitsubishi Corp. Signs 91,761 SF Office Lease in Downtown Houston

HOUSTON — Mitsubishi Corp. (Americas) has signed a 91,761-square-foot office lease in downtown Houston. The space spans floors 31 through 34 at 1100 Louisiana, a 55-story, 1.3 million-square-foot building that was dev…

Silicon Valley R&D Vacancy Falls to 12.6% in 2Q26 as Nvidia Breaks Ground and AI Hardware Powers Leasing

Silicon Valley's research-and-development market tightened in the second quarter of 2026 as vacancy fell, net absorption improved and a new Nvidia campus broke ground, even as quarterly leasing cooled from a first-qua…

MBA mortgage applications dip 1% as refinance slips 2%

Refinance index fell 2% and purchase activity is 5% below last year

KLN Management Advances 32,000 SQFT Medical Office Project Near Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose

Campbell-based KLN Management is pressing forward with a four-story medical office and retail building on a compact Fruitdale corner lot, betting on the pull of San Jose's busiest public hospital just two blocks away.…

Younger Movers Are Softening California’s Exodus, U-Haul Midyear Data Shows, With the Bay Area Among Their Top Draws

U-Haul's 2026 midyear migration report finds Millennials and Generation Z steering their moving trucks into California even as older generations keep heading for the exits, with the San Francisco Bay Area ranking amon…

City Ventures Wins Approval for 137-Unit Townhome Community on Former Industrial Site in Sunnyvale

The approval turns a vacant 4.44-acre industrial parcel at Kifer Road and Uranium Drive into the first residential project in the far reaches of Sunnyvale’s decade-old Lawrence Station Area Plan, built around a state…

St. John Properties Inks 53 KSF Lease in Baltimore Suburb

St. John Properties Inks 53 KSF Lease Outside Baltimore

California’s Renter Majority Faces Deepening Strain as Bay Area Rents Climb 5.8%

California's renter economy has swelled past 16 million people, and a new statewide tenant snapshot shows affordability pressure intensifying just as the Bay Area's multifamily market tightens around a shrinking suppl…

JLL advises on $856M in financing across The Millennium Residences and The Offices at Winthrop Center

Nuveen Green Capital closes $281M C-PACE loan for The Millennium Residences, alongside a $575M loan for The Offices at Winthrop Center, the world's largest Passive House Office Building Key Takeaways: JLL advises on $…

Slate Property Group Receives $86.2M Loan for Refinancing of Queens Apartment Complex

NEW YORK CITY — Locally based developer Slate Property Group has received an $86.2 million loan for the refinancing of Dutch House, a 186-unit apartment complex located in the Long Island City area of Queens. Designed…

NAHB: Building material costs climb 6.7%, squeeze small builders

Material inflation hits small builders hardest as costs outpace large rivals

ExplorUS consolidates six systems into one platform to run hotels, restaurants, retail, camping and marinas across 30 parks nationwide

ExplorUS, operating 200+ U.S. park destinations, will replace six lodging technology platforms with Cloudbeds to unify operations across hotels, restaurants, retail, camping, and marinas.

Bay Area Jobless Rates Fall as San Jose Leads Northern California Job Growth

Jobless rates fell across the San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento over the year ending June 2026 and San Jose led Northern California's job growth, though the improvement was tempered by a shrinking regional labor f…

Nuveen Raises $1B+ for Latest C-PACE Lending Fund

Nuveen Raises $1B+ in Latest C-PACE Lending Fund

Tharwat for Financial Securities Expands Investment Portfolio with SAR 6 Billion Real Estate Fund to Develop “Mazad Al Qutb” Land

JLL Arranges $73.5M Loan for Refinancing of Retail Power Center in McCandless, Pennsylvania

MCCANDLESS, PA. — JLL has arranged a $73.5 million loan for the refinancing of a 387,771-square-foot retail power center in McCandless, a northern suburb of Pittsburgh. McCandless Crossing was 99 percent leased at the…

George Comfort & Sons Underway on Renovation of 350,000 SF Office Building in Lower Manhattan

NEW YORK CITY — Local owner-operator George Comfort & Sons is underway on the renovation of 44 Wall Street, a 350,000-square-foot office building in Lower Manhattan’s Financial District. Designed by Gensler, the proje…

Partnership Receives $66.9M Loan for Refinancing of Active Adult Community in Fairway, Kansas

FAIRWAY, KAN. — A partnership between EPC Real Estate Group and Platform Ventures has received a $66.9 million loan for the refinancing for The Fieldston, an active adult community located in Fairway, approximately 10…

Laurel Real Estate Brokers Sale of 60-Room Hampton Inn Hotel in Sunbury, Ohio

SUNBURY, OHIO — Laurel Real Estate Co. has brokered the sale of the 60-room Hampton Inn Columbus I-71 North hotel in Sunbury. Laurel represented the undisclosed seller. A private investor group acquired the hotel. The…

Kislak Negotiates $6.1M Sale of Apartment Building in Lodi, New Jersey

LODI, N.J. — Locally based brokerage firm The Kislak Co. Inc. has negotiated the $6.1 million sale of River View, a 28-unit apartment building located at 60 S. Main St. in the Northern New Jersey community of Lodi. Ac…

Marcus & Millichap Arranges Sale of 31-Unit Multifamily Property in Grain Valley, Missouri

GRAIN VALLEY, MO. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of Creekside Village, a 31-unit multifamily property in Grain Valley near Kansas City. Jacob Carroll and Aaron Kuroiwa of Marcus & Millichap represented the…

HomeServices adds mortgage servicing through Prosperity

Prosperity originates nearly $9 billion a year and had typically sold servicing rights after closing.

State of California Renews 42,000 SQFT at 400 R Street in Downtown Sacramento

The State of California has renewed 42,000 square feet at 400 R Street, keeping one of downtown Sacramento’s larger government tenancies in place at a moment when the state’s own auditor says its buildings cannot seat…

SVN Chicago Commercial Negotiates $1.5M Sale of Retail Center in Chicago’s North Center

CHICAGO — SVN Chicago Commercial has negotiated the $1.5 million sale of a 6,000-square-foot retail property located at 3832 N. Lincoln Ave. in Chicago’s North Center neighborhood. Tim Rasmussen and Marcus Sullivan of…

Tech-driven protection gains steam ahead of Realtor Safety Month

The technology addresses both longstanding risks and newer vulnerabilities created by more independent work

The Hidden Profit Center Hotels Have Been Ignoring

With U.S. hotel margins compressing for a third consecutive year, the article argues supplier payments represent an untapped profit center via rebates, working capital gains, and AP automation.

The Bascom Group Completes $8.5 Million Refinancing of Historic Charleston Apartments in Downtown Los Angeles

IRVINE, Calif., Aug. 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The Bascom Group, LLC ("Bascom") has completed an $8.5 million refinancing of The Charleston Apartments, a 133-unit historic multifamily community located in the Westlake…

All Five Longitude Health Governing Member Systems to Serve as Design and Development Partners for Cell and Gene Therapy Utility

FALLS CHURCH, Va., Aug. 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Longitude Health today announced that all five of its governing member health systems—Michigan Medicine, Novant Health, Baylor Scott & White Health, Memorial Hermann He…

Bradford announces North Texas leases

4Sight Labs Expands OptiGuard™ to Cover Shared Cells with Up to Four Occupants

The expansion extends 4Sight Labs' camera-based in-cell monitoring platform beyond single-occupancy housing, using detention camera infrastructure agencies already have in place. TEMPE, Ariz., Aug. 26, 2026 /PRNewswir…

Pak Mail Express Opens Inside Springfield, Massachusetts Convenience Store, Now Offering Local Packing and Shipping Services

Annex Brands, Inc. Expands with New Pak Mail Express Store-within-a-Store Concept SAN DIEGO, Aug. 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Annex Brands, Inc., one of the leading franchisors in the packing, shipping and office service…

New York Adirondacks village converting WWI factory into housing

The deal pairs $23.8 million in state LIHTC with $12.95 million in historic tax credits

Grocery Outlet Opens 30,000 SQFT Store at Former Fisherman’s Wharf Safeway, Ending North Beach’s 3-Year Grocery Gap

Discount grocer Grocery Outlet has taken over the long-vacant Safeway on Bay Street, restoring a full-size grocery option for roughly 20,000 residents on the edge of Fisherman's Wharf and North Beach nearly a year aft…

From Sears kits to concrete domes, a Wyoming city’s housing bet

Casper’s Goodwill Landing targets 24 permanent affordable rentals using poured concrete dome construction

San Francisco Hospitality Scored Double-Digit Sales Growth During the 2026 World Cup

Bank of America credit and debit card data shows San Francisco's restaurants, bars and hotels captured double-digit small-business sales growth during the 2026 World Cup, even as the metro's overall card-spending gain…

EvCap Investments and Point Acquisitions Acquire North Phoenix Retail Center

PHOENIX, Aug. 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- EvCap Investments and Point Acquisitions today announced the joint acquisition of a 66,000 SF retail center at 711 E. Carefree Highway in Phoenix, Arizona. The transaction closed…

Greater Cleveland Market Overview: Growth, Investment and Recognition

By Kevin Malinowski, Colliers | Cleveland-Akron Greater Cleveland continues to strengthen its position as one of the Midwest’s most competitive business and commercial real estate markets with Ohio’s recognition as CN…

Wuhan ETDZ Intelligent Connected and Electric Vehicle Industrial Park (West Zone) Construction Begins

Greensboro builder plans $60M apartment complex near Lake Jeanette