The May/June 2026 issue of Pro Builder unveiled its annual Top 200 report, which ranks the leading home builders in the United States by 2025 revenue and includes insights about the top trends affecting the industry.
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NAHB members who were unable to join us in Washington, D.C., for the 2026 Spring Leadership Meetings can watch some of the highlights on nahb.org, including social media downloads for key highlights.
Keep readingBack this year with another great lineup, the NAHB | IBS Education Webinar series offers a valuable way to continue learning from some of the industry’s most respected educators and thought leaders throughout the year.
Keep readingIt’s a full-circle moment for fintech firm Digital Asset. The company has signed a 19,000-square-foot lease at 4 World Trade Center, Commercial Observer has learned. Digital Asset will return to the same building it occupied from 2018 until it moved to 107 Greenwich Street in March 2025. The new lease length is for 10 years,…
Keep readingLos Angeles lawmakers are moving toward asking voters to scale back perhaps the most controversial part of the city’s real estate regulations. The Los Angeles City Council voted 9 to 5 Wednesday to direct the city attorney to draft a ballot measure that would amend Measure ULA, the city’s so-called “mansion tax,” by exempting newly…
Keep readingTerreno Realty on Thursday announced it has paid $56.3 million for an industrial property in Hialeah Gardens, Fla. The 98,000-square-foot distribution building sits on 16.8 acres at 10910 Northwest 144th Street, adjacent to the intersection of Florida’s Turnpike and Okeechobee Road, Terreno Realty said in a statement. The property includes 36-foot ceilings, nine dock-high doors,…
Keep readingHousing developer Vilson Lumaj has purchased a vacant property in the Bronx to build two 99-unit residential buildings, Commercial Observer has learned. The property at 761-769 East Tremont Avenue was sold for $10 million by real estate developer Yoram Eliyahu. The buyer also acquired 60,000 square feet of air rights above the property for $3.5…
Keep readingThe Knicks parade wasn’t the only noise happening in Manhattan’s Battery Park on Thursday. Related Companies and the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) have teamed up to preserve and expand the number of affordable units at Tribeca Park, Related’s 27-story Lower Manhattan residential building, the partners announced Thursday. Related built the 369-unit rental tower at…
Keep readingOne of the markets that has struggled the most with office real estate’s long post-pandemic correction happens to be home to one of the nation’s biggest conversion projects. Construction is underway on the Geneva, a $750 million project to turn a Class C office building in Washington, D.C., into a 532-unit multifamily complex with 61…
Keep readingA joint venture led by Greek Real Estate Partners (GREP) has secured a $79 million financing package for an industrial development in Parsippany, N.J., Commercial Observer has learned. The deal clears the way for the vertical construction of a 281,215-square-foot, Class A industrial facility at 169 Lackawanna Avenue. The joint venture consisted of GREP, real…
Keep readingA flower importer and wholesaler is in growth mode, and has planted roots in one of Los Angeles’ industrial hubs. Holland Flower Market paid $34.1 million for a 91,010-square-foot, Class A, freestanding industrial facility in the city of Commerce, Calif. BMO Bank provided a $25 million acquisition loan, according to records on PropertyShark. Records also…
Keep readingMortgage rates quickly erased a week of progress this afternoon following the Fed announcement and press conference. Fed announcement day historically has several components: the announcement itself, the summary of economic projections (SEP), and the press conference. Within the SEP, there is the dot plot showing each Fed member’s assumptions about where the Fed Funds…
Keep readingTakeaway: He’s no one’s sock puppet! Now that Kevin Warsh has the job, he’s ready to make changes. It will take markets a while to fully digest the full breadth of today’s meeting, but the hawkish shift in the committee’s projections will keep mortgage rates high for now. In some ways though, that’s almost besides…
Keep readingBeverly Hills-based real estate investment company Hawkins Way Capital has acquired a property comprising student housing and market-rate apartments at 81 East Third Street, Commercial Observer has learned. The $28 million acquisition in the East Village closed Wednesday, according to a source familiar with the deal. The sale comes just days after CO reported that…
Keep readingDonald Trump’s plan to shrink the federal government’s real estate footprint has run into an 11-figure obstacle: The buildings need a lot of work. The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) has identified more than $25.8 billion in maintenance needs across federally owned buildings, including at least 62 properties that each require $100 million or more…
Keep readingA Boca Raton mansion within a private golf course community and two apartments in New York City are among May’s most expensive home sales. A massive waterfront estate in Boca Raton, two ultra-luxury Manhattan properties, and several waterfront Florida estates were among May’s most expensive home sales. A sprawling estate in Boca Raton, FL claimed…
Keep readingDelShah Capital has purchased two mixed-use residential properties in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The Michael Shah-led firm bought 227 Grand Street and 456 Grand Street — the latter of which comes with a 421-a tax abatement that doesn’t expire until 2030 — for a combined $85 million from Bronstein Properties, The Real Deal reported. Bronstein paid $43…
Keep readingBill Owens, chairman of the National Association of Home Builders and a home builder and remodeler from Worthington, Ohio, issued the following statement on the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act.
Keep readingDeveloper Tom Assouline has sealed a $33 million loan to refinance a hotel property in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Commercial Observer has learned. City National Bank of Florida supplied the two-year loan for the Garden Hotel & Resort, according to Institutional Property Advisors (IPA) Capital Markets, which negotiated the debt. IPA, a subsidiary of Marcus &…
Keep readingHealth care-related property has become one of the commercial real estate industry’s more in-demand niches and safe harbors, and now it’s become one of its more competitive hunting grounds. Los Angeles-based Stockdale Capital Partners has been building into that demand since launching its open-ended health care fund in 2023. Since then, Stockdale’s health care platform,…
Keep readingCRED iQ analyzed $26.1 billion of the most recently issued loans securitized in 2026 across commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) conduit, single-asset, single-borrower (SASB), Freddie Mac and commercial real estate collateralized loan obligation transactions. The data exposes a market split cleanly in two. On a balance-weighted basis, the average cap rate on newly originated collateral now…
Keep readingThe bad news: mortgage rates didn’t fall quite as much as one might have expected following the confirmation of the Iran peace deal. The good news: rates had already begun pricing in the peace deal last Thursday and it only took a modest improvement for the average lender to match the lowest level in exactly…
Keep readingNational commercial construction firm ARCO Design/Build has signed a 9,771-square-foot lease at Williams Equities’ 470 Park Avenue South, Commercial Observer has learned. The 15th-floor lease was signed in late March, according to a spokesperson for the landlord. A Colliers team of Andrew Roos, Michael Cohen, Mac Roos, Jessica Verdi and Rachel Kirkham represented Williams Equities,…
Keep readingThis Week In A Nutshell: It’s going to be a big week with an announced deal that may open the Strait of Hormuz by Friday and Kevin Warsh’s first Fed meeting on Wednesday. Upcoming Attractions The two key events to watch this week are (1) whether the newly announced between the US and Iran…
Keep readingOn Wednesday night the entire city of New York lost its collective mind at roughly the same moment. Down 29 points against the San Antonio Spurs, a New York Knicks victory looked so improbable that Larry David, seated in celebrity row, growled to John McEnroe: “Let’s get out of here — I can’t handle this…
Keep readingA thermochemical energy company that provides power on demand for heavy industrial users and operators has moved its corporate base to San Diego as it transitions to commercial scale. Tempo signed a lease to take over a 35,000-square-foot facility at 6680 Cobra Way in San Diego’s Sorrento Mesa neighborhood. Montana Avenue Capital Partners owns the…
Keep readingSome national headlines are pointing out that mortgage rates are higher this week. Those are based on weekly survey data which can often be stale compared to daily rate movement. Actual average rates are now in line with last Thursday’s levels of 6.58% for top tier 30yr fixed scenarios. That’s just 0.02% higher than May…
Keep readingThe Trump administration suspended funding for a prominent Los Angeles homeless services agency due to what federal officials say are failures and a “clear pattern of fraud” in the nation’s capital for homelessness. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) said the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) may have violated federal law…
Keep readingOn the latest episode of NAHB’s podcast, Housing Developments, CEO Jim Tobin and COO Paul Lopez are joined by NAHB member David Price, a remodeler from Greenville, N.C., to talk about his experience at NAHB’s Legislative Conference and his perspective on the current housing market.
Keep readingPaul Singer’s Elliott Management bought a hotel in Miami’s Coconut Grove neighborhood from Brookfield Asset Management. Called the Mayfair House Hotel & Garden, the property was built in 1982 and includes 180 rooms at 3000 Florida Avenue, adjacent to Virginia Street. The hotel traded for roughly $110 million, according to a representative for Brookfield, which had…
Keep readingA real estate-focused technology firm is leasing space in Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood. Bluebook Cities, which was co-founded in 2021 by Dryden Brown and Charlie Callinan and helps cities build self-governed communities, signed a 6,300-square-foot lease at Joe Betesh’s 412 Broadway, according to landlord broker Okada & Company. Asking rent for Bluebook’s new space on the entire…
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