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Hawkins Way Capital Buys Stratford Residence Hall on UWS for $80M trib.al/wNYUy3i

Hawkins Way Capital Buys Stratford Residence Hall on UWS for $80M

Hawkins Way Capital has acquired a former hotel on Manhattan’s Upper West Side that is now used as student housing.

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Madison Realty Capital, Newbond Holdings Provide $115M Refi for Santa Cruz Hotel trib.al/mGRuIlR

Madison Realty Capital Provides $115M Refi for Luxury Santa Cruz Hotel

La Bahia Hotel & Spa delivers 155 rooms to a California submarket without many luxury hospitality assets.

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South Florida’s Billionaires Wave Is Swamping the Region for Good and Ill trib.al/LwF7z7y

South Florida’s Billionaires Wave Is Swamping Region for Good and Ill

For one thing, it’s probably never been a better time to lease office space and sell homes.

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NYC’s Multifamily Market Has Split. Here’s What Investors Need to Know. trib.al/FUkegAJ

NYC’s Multifamily Market Has Split — What Investors Need to Know.

A new, broader buyer pool is real, but it’s concentrated where fundamentals are strongest.

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Tishman Speyer Snaps Up $40M Mezz Loan on New York’s One Dag trib.al/J5XTeuu

Tishman Speyer Snaps Up $40M Mezz Loan on New York’s One Dag

Tishman Speyer's debt platform just purchased the $40 million mezzanine loan on One Dag Hammarskjöld, Commercial Observer has learned.

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Atkins Diet: Zenith IOS’s CEO On Industrial’s Hottest Niche trib.al/WEya9K3

Behind The Rise of Zenith IOS CEO Ben Atkins

Ben Atkins co-founded the company about six years ago and has already cinched partnerships with the likes of J.P. Morgan Asset Management.

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How Safehold’s Ground Lease is Unlocking Multifamily Development trib.al/jxIn6pL

How Safehold’s Ground Lease is Unlocking Multifamily Development

Safehold's modern ground lease helps multifamily developers lower capital costs, improve returns and move projects forward.

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Sunday Summary: Just in the Knicks of Time trib.al/gMl9We3

Sunday Summary: Can the Knicks Teach CRE a Thing or Two?

Like the Knicks, CRE has been keeping its head down and fighting its way back, completing more housing last year than any time since 1965.

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Tempo Signs HQ Lease in San Diego to Expand Industrial Electrification trib.al/cEiLFUu

Tempo Signs HQ Lease in San Diego to Expand Industrial Electrification

Montana Avenue Capital owns the 35,000-square-foot facility.

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L.A. Mayor ‘Has Grave Concerns’ Amid Allegations at Homeless Agency trib.al/hTTi0BG

L.A. Mayor ‘Has Grave Concerns’ Amid Allegation at Homeless Agency

The federal government claims a ‘clear pattern of fraud’ at L.A. Homeless Services Authority.

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Paul Singer’s Elliott Management Buys Coconut Grove Hotel trib.al/k4kUTJ7

Paul Singer’s Elliott Management Buys Coconut Grove Hotel

ACORE Capital provided $79 million for the acquisition in the Miami enclave.

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AMAC Holdings Sells Adjacent East Village Buildings for $23.5M trib.al/cQ1qP44

AMAC Holdings Sells Adjacent East Village Buildings for $23.5M

AMAC Holdings has sold two adjacent buildings in Manhattan’s East Village for a combined $23.5 million.

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Midwood Pays $41M for West Village Retail Swath at 403 Avenue of the Americas trib.al/7THJ4b2

Midwood Buys Retail Property at 403 Avenue of the Americas for $41M

The all-cash deal adds to the family-owned firm’s West Village footprint.

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Local Developer Plans Pair of 99-Unit Resi Buildings on Brooklyn’s Atlantic Avenue trib.al/9ptlYoe

Developer Plans Pair of 99-Unit Buildings on Brooklyn’s Atlantic Ave

Local developer Moses Karpen filed plans for two new residential buildings at 1029 Atlantic Avenue and 1035 Atlantic Avenue.

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Wells Fargo Lends $296M on Industrial Portfolio Buy trib.al/1j80EfF

Wells Fargo Lends $296M on Industrial Portfolio Buy

EQT Real Estate sealed a $296 million loan for the acquisition of a 20-property industrial portfolio in New Jersey and South Florida.

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Dwight Capital Refis Missouri Apartments With $36M HUD Loan trib.al/QCoLaLW

Dwight Capital Refis Missouri Apartments With $36M HUD Loan

Pollard Properties landed $36 million of agency-backed debt to refinance a multifamily community an hour west of St. Louis.

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NYC School Construction Authority to Open 54K-SF Science Center in the Bronx trib.al/qEsx7ht

NYC School Construction Authority to Open Science Center in the Bronx

New York City Public Schools will open its new Bronx STEAM Center in the borough’s Pelham Bay neighborhood.

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QuadReal Property Group Provides $64M Refi for Miss. U. Student Housing trib.al/ZmSM54D

QuadReal Property Group Provides $64M Refi for Student Housing

The Vista Starkville, a 309-unit complex that opened in 2019 at Mississippi State University.

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Forget Tech — Law Firms Are Driving Manhattan Office Leasing trib.al/rcrg2wD

Law Firms and Manhattan Office Leasing: Why It’s Way Up in 2026

The legal services sector has represented 17.1 percent of the borough’s leasing volume so far in 2026.

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There’s Been a Big Shift in the Commercial Real Estate Capital Markets trib.al/nsaXeLw

There’s Been a Big Shift in the Commercial Real Estate Capital Markets

As banks continue returning to CRE and private lenders continue expanding, the question is no longer whether private credit belongs.

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