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Boerne's 324 units test the operator-and-location thesis
Endura's Hill Country groundbreaking carries the standard garden amenity list and a HUD 221(d)(4) loan, leaving the absorption question to the property manager and the site.
A foundation is setting a floor under downtown San Diego offices
Civic capital can hold a landmark at a basis no leveraged sponsor will touch, but patience is not absorption.
Vacant for a decade, now 362 fully leased apartments
BTI and Bridge bought the dirt cheap and let a bank loan carry the build, a template that only works while cheap infill sites exist.
Disney's return-to-office mandate won't move office leasing yet
The mandate names days, not buildings, and the tenants enforcing it are cutting payroll; the leasing mark comes at expiration, and it likely lands lower.
June's construction drop was a data center print, not a slowdown
Nine sub-50 readings in ten months from the design pipeline mean the supply freeze holding up non-data-center assets has another year to run.
August's job growth is a property-type read
The month's hiring concentrated in food services, government and health care, the payrolls behind Class C rent rather than the young-professional household formation that underwrites new supply.
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Boston office gets duration; it still needs a trade
Thirty-two leases with a weighted average term above ten years give International Place the cash-flow case a lender can underwrite; the market still has no mark on the asset.
Elecor bets a lobby and two amenity floors can move 1633 Broadway up-market
The spend puts Elecor on the capex side of Midtown's trophy-versus-commodity split, where the rent spread, not the amenity count, settles the wager.
Seefried clears 35 acres by O'Hare for industrial
Demolition is done and delivery is set for the second quarter of 2027, with the land's next use worth more than the offices it replaced.
AI's power problem just leased a 204,000-square-foot warehouse
Aalo Atomics' $25 million Georgetown conversion puts the power buildout in the industrial tenant mix, on a schedule that trails the load it is meant to supply.
Macerich adds a hotel to FlatIron Crossing's mixed-use bet
A 160,000-square-foot Dick's will be nearly twice the size of the mall's entire remaining retail offering—which is where this program's economics actually sit.
Asia Pacific office demand is real, and it is premium
Half of APAC occupiers plan to grow, but the survey prices buildings rather than the office index.
Industrial tenants are buying freight position, not warehouse term
Transportation eats 45 to 70 percent of logistics cost while rent runs 3 to 6, and that gap is turning the short-term industrial lease into the sector's most underpriced product.
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Amazon's next warehouses will be small, close in, and hard to build
Project Mercury would take the retailer from about 85 same-day facilities to more than 1,000 by 2031, moving the marginal dollar of Amazon demand onto a format the industrial pipeline serves least well.
Grid access is now the gate for data center capital
At a record 37.7 gigawatts under construction across the Americas, the siting decision has become a power decision, and the largest proposed developments are going where the grid is.
Border freight stalls, and industrial's trade leg wobbles
Truck activity on the northern border has flattened to early-2021 levels and is dragging on logistics demand in both countries; corridor warehouses are underwritten on throughput as much as on consumption.
IMG renews at 304 Park, keeping 69% of its peak space
The five-year deal covers 90,202 square feet of a 130,655-square-foot footprint, leaving SL Green to test what Midtown South pays for the rest.
Dermody's Chicago infill project has to out-earn its own demolition
The 357,619-square-foot Berkeley redevelopment is a recycled site in one of the metro's best trucking positions, and the first lease rate will tell Chicago whether teardown-and-rebuild is a trade or a toll.
Embrey trades height for 296 units in Alamo Heights
A land lease and an entitlement waiver do the work in a submarket that normally caps apartment buildings at three stories.
A one-dollar rent decline hides a two-speed apartment market
Thirty-one of the top 50 markets cut rents in August while San Francisco grew at 11.9 percent; the national average flattens both.
The data center bottleneck moves to the substation
A pipeline nearly six times the installed base is being underwritten as a leasing story while the real constraint is a wire and a date.
NOI execution is a sponsor's edge; it can't fix the entry price
Lubeck's blocking-and-tackling case tells allocators what to screen for, and quietly concedes the part of the return no operator controls.
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Related starts leasing 336 rentals that will price the rest of Tuxedo Reserve
The first rent roll is the comp set for the phases Related has yet to build on the 1,200-acre site.
New Jersey's data center fight moves from power bills to diesel tanks
The spill at a 25-year-old Equinix interconnection site gives Trenton a specific reason to regulate the fuel data centers store, and the development pipeline will pay for it.
New York's medical office bid is a bet on regulation
The $302.2 million that ranks New York fourth on CBRE's list is paying for licenses and tenant credit as much as for square feet.
Logos Faith's $750 Million Pipeline Runs on Church-Owned Land
Fifteen groundbreakings through 2028 put the model's real constraint on the church side of the table, where the queue sets the pace.
Amazon gets the sortation center; the hard 110 acres go to a preservation bet
The Atlantic City Race Course split its 255 acres in two, and the half with the grandstands carries every variable the sortation center avoids.
Hut 8 starts a $399M campus under $19.6B in leases
The construction budget is roughly a fiftieth of the contracted value it will house, so the risk private capital takes here is delivery and tenant credit, not lease-up.
At $34 a foot, Insignia can out-lease Vinings
A $21.75 million purchase and more than $10 million in amenities give two 18-story Vinings towers an all-in basis near $50 a square foot.
RCLCO's margin fix is an extension, not a repricing
Debt easing while equity stays picky means the maturity wall is still being rolled, and the survey's own capital-markets answers say marks wait on a trade.
L.A.'s soundstages won't be saved by a $4.76 billion summer
The season ran 26 percent ahead of last year at the box office while the city's production market kept losing shoots abroad — and the two numbers no longer move together.
Shallow-bay industrial's scarcity pitch is also its ceiling
Speed Bay's Michael Moriarty tells IREI that infill scarcity and data center land competition support shallow-bay rents — for the owners already holding the product.
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Bridge buys the AI trade in two industrial addresses
Two closed Northern California acquisitions map a strategy that depends on infill scarcity persisting and logistics tenants continuing to move inland.
Mall values rise 13% as investors exit multifamily and office
Money leaving apartments and offices is bidding up U.S. real estate's top-performing sector, and two owners' equity just got cheaper.
Theseus staffs the build side of AI data center demand
Krupal Raval's hire at Theseus puts Macquarie and GIC on the build side of AI data center demand, with Anthropic as both the covenant and the concentration.
Fifth Third grows at Rockefeller Center, but sets no rent
An expansion inside a lease that runs to 2034 tells Midtown who is still signing, not what they are paying.
The jobs-to-office link is breaking at the entry level
BGO's Ryan Severino says a labor market split between shortage occupations and scarce entry-level white-collar work lands hardest on office demand.
LA retail's record sale measures only half of a two-market county
Grocery-anchored centers are drawing record bids while the tenant base in immigrant commercial districts has not recovered from the June 2025 enforcement surge.
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Oxford buys office again, but only where it can see the leasing
The $435 million Boston tower is Oxford's first core U.S. office purchase since 2017, and the AI-exposure screen behind its underwriting says where the next checks go.
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360 Lexington is finished; the rent roll is not public
AmTrustRE completed the Midtown repositioning but hasn't published the rents, budget, or leases that would prove the trade.