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Cascadia splits: Vancouver tightens, Seattle absorbs
CoStar's report puts the two industrial markets on opposite trajectories, a warning against regional blanket logistics plays.
Senior housing's $1 trillion gap is a capital rotation
The 80-plus population is set to nearly double by 2040 while construction sits near historic lows, pulling institutional dollars toward a long-duration, $1 trillion build-out.
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Chicago big-box leasing jumps 51% on modern-vintage demand
Newest big-box buildings are clearing first in Chicago, a signal for industrial capital.
Life sciences' shrunken pipeline sets up a recovery
Rents are still falling and vacancy sits at 24.3%, but the construction pipeline at 2% of inventory is the number private capital should underwrite.
Google trades scattered D.C. offices for one near Union Station
The tech giant is taking a large portion of a 231,000-square-foot building a few blocks from the Capitol — the latest vote for top-tier office space while weaker buildings drift toward conversion.
Queens' apartment squeeze has an expiration date
CoStar puts vacancy at 2.08% and the pipeline at a decade low, but the One LIC rezoning is already rebuilding supply.
Data centers pull industrial demand into their orbit
CoStar's leasing data puts the data center supply chain at over 6% of logistics leasing within five miles, double its 2020 share.
Thompson Thrift bets a named 2026 fund on a 2027 Powder Springs lease-up
Construction is underway on Avira at Silver Comet Trail, a 319-unit community set for October 2027 move-ins, a two-year wager on suburban Atlanta absorption.
Student housing preleasing hits 89.1% as regional gaps widen
The national prelease number looks healthy, but the West is rolling over, and the large-bed-count schools that dominate the index carry the supply and international risk.
Hines maps the $1T advanced manufacturing wave to six metros
The manager's research says industrial rents will concentrate—and allocators should build accordingly.
Canada's flight to quality skips apartments for offices
CoStar's read on Canadian property makes high-end offices the defensive trade and luxury apartments the vacancy risk.
Malls draw IKEA and Target before institutional capital circles
Second-quarter absorption turned positive and first-half volume hit $33 billion, yet tenant interest is leading the recovery.
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Senior housing's real shortage is sellers
Record capital is chasing senior housing, but owners are choosing 30-year HUD loans and generational holds over the exit.
Data center boom spills into industrial demand
CoStar's report makes supplier space the newest data point in the data-center underwrite.
Merritt 7 sale prices office as apartment feedstock
A CBRE-brokered sale of two Norwalk office buildings to a joint venture planning 286 apartments shows a $75.5 million OZK construction loan underwriting the office's next use.
Biopharma capital surge builds case for lab leasing rebound
Massachusetts biopharma employment declined in 2025 for the first time in two decades, but the state's VC, IPO, and M&A numbers all ran ahead in the first half of 2026 — a gap that sets up a life-science leasing recovery.
Multifamily NOI growth weakens even as expenses cool
Expense growth cooled in Trepp's 2025 medians; revenue slowed by the same amount, so NOI growth weakened and the cost-revenue gap persisted.
Genius Sports lease pushes Vornado tower to 95 percent occupied
A 53,000-square-foot relocation gives Vornado another trophy trade in a Midtown market split between renovated towers and the rest.
Soluna's 397-acre AI campus buy is a wind-power play
The point of the Briscoe County purchase is control of the power supply.
KeyBank signs 15-year renewal and expansion at Elecor Tower
The 15-year lease adds 15,292 square feet and turns an existing Plaza District presence into a true New York headquarters.
Retail recovery is broad; office is stuck
IRR's 2026 mid-year report finds more than 90% of retail markets in recovery or expansion while office stays evenly split, rewarding block-level underwriting over sector labels.
A 1928 Phoenix office tower becomes a $135 million hotel
Maricopa County's 20-year lease gives CivicGroup and Sunflower Development the tenure to underwrite a hotel, not an office.
DLA Piper and Ascot expand at $140–$150 a foot as Midtown splits
Two full-floor commitments at 1251 Avenue of the Americas show credit tenants still paying trophy pricing while the broader market works through vacancy.
Trammell Crow wraps Sprouts-anchored Phoenix development
A 145,000-square-foot build-to-suit for Sprouts shows which office product is actually trading.
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Tariffs Split Construction Into Two Pricing Regimes
The 50% Canadian duties on cement, plywood, and machinery will hit build-to-rent pro formas as contingency while data-center sponsors pass the cost through; lenders will price the gap.
Defense tech rewrites the South Bay industrial underwrite
Record Pentagon contracts and defense-tech tenants are turning South Bay warehouses into military infrastructure, and the region's industrial market is starting to underwrite accordingly.
Revolution Medicines nears 700K-sf lease at former Google hub
A pre-launch drug bet would more than double the biotech's Redwood City footprint and reset the comp for vacant Peninsula tech campuses.
New York multifamily filings collapse as large projects vanish
A 52% drop in proposed units and a 25-to-9 collapse in 100-plus-unit filings put the 421-a exit's cost in the filing data.
Data Center Brokers Must Underwrite Risk, Not Just Land
Colliers' Saavedra sees the job shifting from listings to feasibility.
Texas audit turns ERCOT queue into a data center diligence item
The state's verification sweep turns grid documentation from an assumption into a diligence item for Texas data center projects in institutional pipelines.
Front Street draws up an 8.4M-SF industrial park in Lexington before the zoning exists
An 850-acre Triad site has I-85 and rail access, but Front Street is carrying the entitlement risk through a municipal process with no guaranteed timeline.
BTH breaks ground on a small-bay first phase in Port St. Lucie
The 55,200-square-foot start to Tradition Commerce Park leaves the 166,968-square-foot distribution boxes for later phases of the 530,000-square-foot plan.
Kinsmen files 322-home Bowery plan as development capital returns
Three mixed-income towers, including 124 affordable senior units, arrive with a lingering ground lease question still hanging over the site.
Brennan hires Field to open Phoenix industrial market
The private industrial operator is staking its Phoenix push on a local senior hire with a capital markets background.
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Port of LA's second-best July confirms industrial demand
Second-best July container volume is real-time evidence of warehouse demand — and a reminder that the tariff policy behind it can reverse.
New rail spur gives Mark IV's Nevada district a national connection
The 4,300-acre Victory Logistics District now has direct Union Pacific service, putting 100 acres of rail-ready land on the market.
Lincoln and ACORE launch Foundry43 in Salt Lake City's Granary District
The adaptive-reuse project adds 64,000 square feet of creative office to a former steel foundry site.
Medical outpatient sales jump 21% as portfolio premium widens
Cushman & Wakefield counted $6.7 billion in first-half medical outpatient sales; portfolio buyers paid a premium.
Ascendant completes 170-unit BTR townhomes in Houston
The Tomball, Texas, delivery is a 170-unit test of lease-up pricing in a submarket where for-sale homes run $1 million and up.
Severino: Jobs are a shrinking gauge of CRE demand
BGO's chief economist says headcount no longer explains where property demand is coming from.