September 2026

HECM volume slips in August, with the ‘Big 3’ holding a 62% market share

Conversely, HMBS issuance rose to $537 million across 65 pools

Downtown Denver Apartment Building Trades for $110M

Carmel Partners bought The Fitzgerald at 1840 Market St. for $110 million. Greystar was the owner and developer of the 282-unit, 11-story building. The mixed-use building with retail spaces on the ground floor opened…

News | Planned apartment complex next to Northern Virginia Metro station secures financing

Cudahy apartment complex sold for $18.1 million

Florida homebuyers can breathe easier as insurance market rebounds

Nearly 20 insurers entered or reentered Florida after 2022 and 2023 reforms, easing quoting and closing challenges.

Developer Looking to Transform Phoenix Shopping Center

One of Phoenix’s oldest shopping centers is gearing up for a potentially major transformation. Camelback Colonnade is 62 years old in its original form, tracing back to the 1964 opening of the East Camelback Mall, or…

Your guest data is a gold mine – are you using it?

A Mews podcast episode featuring Bookboost, Revinate, and Quinta explores how hotels can centralize fragmented guest data to drive direct bookings, personalization, and AI-powered automation.

Seafood Restaurant Crab House Takes 7K SF at 11 East 13th Street

It’s the catch of the day! All-you-can-eat seafood chain Crab House has secured its fourth New York City location at 11 East 13th Street in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village neighborhood, Commercial Observer has learned.…

Hrithik Roshan reportedly leases a 2,727 sq ft office in Goregaon for INR 4.82 crore

South Tampa Apartment Complex Sells for $70 Million

Virginia Tech coalition plans ‘Reddit for builders,’ a construction digital commons

Andrew McCoy, interim managing director of the Coalition for Smart Construction at Virginia Tech, says the organization is prioritizing more seats at the table for smaller builders.

Virginia Tech coalition plans Reddit-like digital commons for builders

Andrew McCoy, interim managing director of the Coalition for Smart Construction at Virginia Tech, says the organization is prioritizing more seats at the table for smaller builders.

A roundup of Maine commercial real estate leases for September 2026

HUD sets one-year statute of limitations on fair housing construction violations

The updated guidance replaces a 2013 policy

Developing Stories: Commercial real estate news from August

HomeVestors expands to on-market properties with acquisition

The move aims to help franchises identify and pursue investment opportunities listed on the MLS

West side apartment complex ordered to close after squatters, drugs found

Clarity Creates Confidence: The Cost of Overexplaining to Customers

Overexplaining to customers creates mental friction and undermines confidence; concise, fact-focused responses improve satisfaction and reduce confusion at the point of service.

OpConnect Opens New Portland Headquarters to Support Nationwide EV Charging Growth

U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, Oregon State Tep. Rob Nosse and Portland Mayor Keith Wilson joined customers, investors and community leaders as the company marked its third move since founding. PORTLAND, Or…

Urban Edge to Sell Kohl’s-Anchored Morris Plains Shopping Center for $60 Million

Piyush Goyal pitches for dedicated US-India industrial park under BHAVYA scheme

18-Story Houston Office Tower Changes Hands

Serac Capital Partners , in partnership with National Real Estate Advisors, acquired 3737 Buffalo Speedway in Greenway Plaza. Madison Marquette was the seller. The Houston Business Journal reports 3737 Buffalo Speedwa…

Waldorf Astoria Bangkok elevates luxury guest experiences with IRIS digital ordering and guest directory

Waldorf Astoria Bangkok has deployed IRIS digital ordering and a Hilton-approved guest directory across all 171 guestrooms, integrating with Oracle MICROS POS to streamline in-room dining and reduce printed materials.

Briarcliff Commons Shopping Center Sells for $60.5 Million

House Republicans outline plan to overhaul CFPB

Act targets CFPB structure, shifting the bureau funding to appropriations

Housing Market Spotlight: Spotting the local signals beneath headline data

El Paso, San Antonio and Cincinnati show why housing professionals need to read seller behavior, supply and absorption together to understand changing market conditions

Cudahy apartment complex sold for $18.1 million - BizTimes

Deutsche Finance Sues BVK Over $2 Billion U.S. Portfolio Anchored by San Francisco’s 750,000 SQFT Transamerica Pyramid

Deutsche Finance Group and its American subsidiary have hauled Germany's largest public pension group into a Delaware courtroom, alleging that Bayerische Versorgungskammer secretly steered the nearly $2 billion U.S. p…

AI Is Turning Retail Leasing Into an Underwriting Business

AI Is Turning Retail Leasing Into an Underwriting Business

Retail real estate has never lacked data. It has lacked a reliable way to connect that data to the health of an individual store. A rent roll shows what a tenant is obligated to pay. Demographics describe the househol…

SFF Realty Partners Buys AllianceBernstein’s 154,000 SQFT 2390 Mission College Blvd. in Santa Clara for $44.25MM

The 153,549-square-foot Class A tower that AllianceBernstein seized from PCCP in a 2025 foreclosure has traded for $44.25 million, roughly doubling the lender's basis and handing a newly capitalized Bay Area fund its…

Treasury Yield Curves Split, Raising Questions About What Comes Next for U.S. Economy

Executive Summary The Treasury market is delivering an unusually divided assessment of the U.S. economy. The 10-year/2-year spread narrowed to 39 basis points last week, down sharply from 50 basis points a week earlie…

AI Is Rewriting Your GDS Listing Before Corporate Travelers See It, Agent-to-Agent AI Will Bypass OTAs Entirely, U.S. RevPAR Forecast Raised to 5.1%

Wednesday opened September with hospitality.today's discovery that AI-powered corporate booking tools like Concur and Navan rewrite, merge, and rerank GDS hotel listings before a traveler ever sees them, a companion a…

Hotel Management Companies Drive Guest Satisfaction Growth

JD Power's 2026 benchmark shows overall guest satisfaction at third-party managed branded hotels rose 14 points to 696, with Columbia Sussex, Crestline, and Driftwood topping the rankings.

HousingWire creates unified Insights function to centralize research and data

Bill Sullivan will lead the new group, embedding insights directly into HousingWire Intelligence and KCM products

The Lost Art of the Tableside Caesar Salad and Why Hotels Must Bring It Back

The Caesar salad's tableside ritual, born in Tijuana in 1924, is a case study in how hotel F&B can use culinary storytelling and skilled service theater to create memorable, differentiated guest experiences.

AI Orders Overflowing: Three Major Tech Giants Snap Up Over NT$100 Billion in Industrial Real Estate, Full-Year Transactions Poised to Top NT$200 Billion

Select Medical and Corewell Health Form Joint Venture to Build New Inpatient Rehabilitation Hospital in Southeast Michigan

MECHANICSBURG, Pa. and STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich., Sept. 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Select Medical Corporation and Corewell Health today announced a joint venture partnership to build and operate a new 84-bed inpatient reha…

Integral Announces Construction Start for 900-Unit Durham Apartment Development

Dubbed Tribute Rising, The Integral Group announced when it will kick off construction on the 907-unit apartment and retail venture. The company anticipates starting construction in early 2027 as the development quali…

Affinius Capital Provides $35M Loan for Refinancing of Metro Houston Retail, Office Property

CYPRESS, TEXAS — New York City-based Affinius Capital has provided a $35 million loan for the refinancing of Village Green at Bridgeland Central, a 198,000-square-foot retail and office property located in the northwe…

Chatsworth Products (CPI) Joins Digital Realty Innovation Lab in London to Advance AI Infrastructure Validation

CPI's integrated infrastructure solutions help organizations validate AI, high-density computing, and hybrid cloud deployments before production. SIMI VALLEY, Calif., Sept. 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Chatsworth Products…

Lincoln Property Co. Sells Two Industrial Buildings at Park303 in Glendale, Arizona for $170.2M

GLENDALE, ARIZ. — Dallas-based Lincoln Property Co. has sold two industrial buildings within Park303 in Glendale. Nuveen Real Estate acquired the assets for $170.2 million. The transaction represents the last of the f…

Lincoln Sells Final Two Industrial Buildings in Park303 Logistics Park in Glendale, Arizona for $170.2M

GLENDALE, ARIZ. — Lincoln Property Co. has sold the final two industrial buildings at Park303 logistics park in Glendale. Nuveen Real Estate, a leading global investment manager, acquired the assets for $170.2 million…

JMI Realty Receives $28.8M Acquisition Loan for Downtown Austin

AUSTIN, TEXAS — Locally based owner-operator JMI Realty has received a $28.8 million acquisition loan for the 254-room Hilton Garden Inn Austin Downtown hotel. The hotel offers a variety of accommodations in addition…

Bender Equities Sells 95-Unit Apartment Complex in Seattle’s Eastlake Neighborhood

Bender Equities Sells 95-Unit Apartment Complex in Seattle’s Eastlake Neighborhood

SEATTLE — Bender Equities has completed the sale of East Howe Steps, a mixed-use apartment complex located in Seattle’s Eastlake neighborhood. SI-East Howe Steps LLC, an affiliate of Sequel Investment Co. and Evergree…

IPA Negotiates Sale of 95-Unit Apartment Complex in Seattle’s Eastlake Neighborhood

IPA Negotiates Sale of 95-Unit Apartment Complex in Seattle’s Eastlake Neighborhood

SEATTLE — Institutional Property Advisors (IPA), a division of Marcus & Millichap, has negotiated the sale of East Howe Steps, an apartment complex located in Seattle’s Eastlake neighborhood. The seller was Bender Equ…

Fourth Avenue Capital Buys Apartment Building in Bend, Oregon for $20M

BEND, ORE. — Fourth Avenue Capital has acquired Steppe, an apartment property in Bend, from National Real Estate Advisors for $20 million. Sam Lawhead, Joe Nydahl, Matt Dodd and Josh McDonald of CBRE represented both…

Fourth Avenue Capital Buys Apartment Complex in Bend, Oregon for $20M

BEND, ORE. — Fourth Avenue Capital has purchased Steppe, an apartment complex in Bend, about 175 miles southeast of Portland. National Real Estate Advisors sold Steppe for $20 million. Sam Lawhead, Joe Nydahl, Matt Do…