Min 1 The national housing market sits paralyzed while million-dollar properties moved at three times the velocity. National Association of Realtors tracked sales at $1 million or above surging 8.4% from a year ago in August, while overall home sales managed only 1.8% growth. Affluent buyers consumed inventory
Min 1 Office-to-residential conversions reached an inflection point nobody saw coming. Manhattan alone has 16,400 apartments in the conversion pipeline, nearly matching the borough's entire new construction pipeline of 17,600 units as of late 2024. The wave accelerated after New York enacted 467-m tax incentives in
Min 1 Institutional investors reversed course after a decade-long buying spree. The nation's largest landlords sold more single-family homes than they purchased for six consecutive quarters through Q3 2024. Invitation Homes, Progress Residential, American Homes 4 Rent, and FirstKey Homes all became net sellers. The shift happened quietly
Min 1 Build-to-rent vacancy rates fell in Q2 2024 for the first time in nearly three years. The inflection happened while skeptics warned about oversupply destroying returns. Total US build-to-rent inventory reached 350,000 units with another 45,000 on the way, yet demand absorbed completions faster than construction delivered
Min 1 Industrial leasing jumped 32.3% year-over-year in Q4 2024 while office vacancy hit record highs. Net absorption doubled from the previous quarter to 38.2 million square feet according to JLL, bringing year-to-date totals to 101 million square feet. The recovery happened faster than consensus expected because nearshoring
Min 1 Imagine winding down a major highway out of the city and spotting new rooftops everywhere—townhomes, mid-rise rentals, mixed-use villages—stretching into zones that were once quiet office parks and single-family sprawl. That image describes what’s unfolding across U.S. suburbs today. The migration away from dense
Min 1 Imagine walking into a 1990s-era office tower and finding a certificate on the wall: “Building energy efficiency rating D.” That certificate becomes a liability in jurisdictions moving to ban D-rated buildings. Now imagine acquiring that building at a discount, retrofitting it, and repositioning to a modern standard while
Min 1 Picture a well-anchored suburban shopping centre—bright storefronts, sturdy tenants, stable foot traffic—standing in sharp contrast to the dark corridors of an empty downtown office tower. That image outlines what’s unfolding in the U.S. retail sector now. In Q2 2025, retail investment volumes surged 23
Min 1 Visualise a sprawling campus of concrete halls, humming servers, and power cables feeding vast arrays of computing equipment. That facility is no longer niche—it’s the backbone of modern cloud & AI architecture, and it’s driving real-estate opportunity. The U.S. data-centre pipeline now hits 8,
Min 1 Imagine a vast warehouse campus just outside a major metro—empty docks, overlapping floorplates, idle lights—and then a surge in demand for one specific type of tenant: cold-storage, 3PL, last-mile micro-fulfillment. That shift is happening now across the U.S. industrial market. For Q2 of 2025, the
Min 1 For the first time in years, home buyers finally have the upper hand. According to Realtor.com, the week of October 12–18 offers the best combination of high inventory, lower asking prices, and reduced competition. In plain terms, more sellers are listing while many buyers have already
Min 1 A San Francisco mansion just traded off-market for $42 million, setting a city record. The buyer? A tech entrepreneur flush with AI-driven wealth. While most of the country cools, the luxury tier is heating up again. High-net-worth buyers treat prime real estate as a store of value, and