Existing-Home Sales Fell 2.0% in August While Supply Reached a Decade High
NAR reported 3.98 million annualized sales and 4.9 months of inventory, the deepest supply in more than ten years.
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Rents Have Risen Seven Months Straight and Are Still Below Last Year
Mortgage Rates Jumped 19 Basis Points in a Single Week to 6.95%
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Lodging REITs Returned 42.8% in the First Half While Apartment REITs Managed 8.3%
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A Tenant Cut Its Space by 44%. Months Later the Tower's $240 Million Loan Went to Foreclosure.
The move on 181 West Madison is a clean illustration of how one lease renegotiation can unwind a skyscraper's capital stack.
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A Magnificent Mile Office Building Is Now Run by a Court-Appointed Receiver
The $50.6 million loan on 625 North Michigan matured in March without repayment. Ninety-eight days later a judge handed the keys to a manager.
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Three Quarters of This Year's CMBS Is One Loan on One Building
Issuance is running toward $140 billion, but the growth is almost entirely in single-asset deals, not the diversified pools the market was built on.
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Boston Approved Four More Office Conversions, Adding 434 Apartments
The approvals push the city's office-to-residential pipeline toward 1,800 units, one building at a time.
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Digital Realty's Leasing Backlog Reached a Record $1.9 Billion as Data Centre Demand Outran Supply
Two hyperscale leases signed in July alone carried $410 million of annualised rent — more than the landlord booked in the entire second quarter.
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Welltower's Senior Housing Portfolio Grew Net Operating Income 20.5% in a Single Quarter
Occupancy up 330 basis points and rate up 5.2% produced the kind of growth rate more common in a recovery than a mature cycle.
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Kimco Matched Record Occupancy and Re-Let Shop Space 40% Above the Old Rent
Small-shop occupancy hit an all-time high of 92.9% as the open-air retail landlord raised its dividend 12% and sold an apartment tower at a 4.9% cap rate.
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Office Deals Led a Commercial Mortgage Bond Market Running Nearly 20% Ahead of Last Year
Private-label CMBS issuance reached $76.2 billion through July, with office the largest property type at 22.7% — a reversal of the sector's recent standing with lenders.
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Prologis Signed a Record 67 Million Square Feet of Leases in a Single Quarter
The largest industrial landlord in the United States reported rising occupancy and 6.4% same-store growth days before a deadline on its rejected bid for a European rival.
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BXP Raised Its Full-Year Outlook After Occupancy Climbed a Full Percentage Point
The office REIT reported $895.7 million of revenue and 1.8 million square feet of leases executed, while a single asset impairment cut two cents from earnings.
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Warehouse Vacancy Fell for the First Time Since 2022 — By One Firm's Count
CBRE recorded a 20 basis point drop to 6.5% while Cushman & Wakefield put national vacancy at 6.9%, a gap that says something about how these numbers are built.
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A Single Football Match Moved the National Hotel Numbers
US RevPAR rose 8.2% in July, with New York's 27.1% gain — the month it hosted the World Cup final — doing much of the lifting.
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Lab Vacancy in East Cambridge Went From Under 1% to 32% in Four Years
JLL's 2026 lab report found availability finally falling — partly because 6.2 million square feet stopped being lab space at all.
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Office CMBS Delinquency Crossed 12% and Special Servicing Hit a 13-Year High
The overall commercial mortgage-backed securities delinquency rate held near 7.85% in August while loans transferred to special servicing reached 11.42%.
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Retail Property Lending Rose 61% as Commercial Borrowing Climbed Across Nearly Every Sector
The MBA's second-quarter survey found overall commercial and multifamily originations up 16% from a year earlier, with only healthcare declining.
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The July Loan Officer Survey Showed Commercial Property Credit Loosening at the Margin
After two years in which banks steadily tightened on commercial real estate, the summer round pointed to stabilisation in parts of the category.
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Data Center Vacancy Fell to 1.4% as Construction Hit a Record 7,481 Megawatts
CBRE's first-half report shows primary-market supply up 33.7% year over year and still nowhere near meeting demand.
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Office Vacancy Posted Its Largest Quarterly Drop Since 2015 — or Barely Moved
CBRE and Cushman & Wakefield published Q2 office figures that agree on direction and disagree on almost everything else.
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Retail Vacancy Stayed Near 6% Because Almost No New Space Is Being Built
Cushman & Wakefield's Q2 report found the active retail pipeline at under 0.3% of existing inventory, holding vacancy well below its historical average.
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Leases Over a Million Square Feet Doubled as Industrial Demand Concentrated at the Top
CBRE counted 38 million-square-foot-plus leases in the first half, more than twice the year-earlier total, as industrial vacancy fell for the first time since 2022.
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