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New York Investor Pays $65MM for Kettle Cuisine-Anchored Production Plant in Everett
FFW Holdings exits longtime Snohomish County food-manufacturing facility in a $65 million trade to New York buyer NM KKC LLC. A New York-based...
Sarah Smith Elevated to Partner at Seattle’s Best Practice Architecture
Seattle-based Best Practice Architecture has announced the promotion of Sarah Smith to partner, marking a new chapter for the firm as it enters...
JP Morgan Pulls Plug on $1.4B Core-Plus Real Estate Fund, Putting Seattle Office Towers Back in Spotlight
The 24-year-old US Real Estate Income and Growth vehicle leaves behind a Denny Triangle footprint that once anchored the West Coast’s biggest office...
AvalonBay and Equity Residential Forge $69B Apartment Titan in All-Stock Merger of Equals
The combination of the nation’s two largest multifamily REITs creates a 180,000-unit powerhouse with dominant positions in Los Angeles, New York and Greater...
Equinix Rides AI Inference Wave to Record Q1 Sales as West Coast Capacity Tightens
The Redwood City data center giant booked its largest sales quarter ever as agentic AI workloads push enterprises off the public cloud and...
Blackstone Mortgage Trust Covers Dividend Third Straight Quarter as Platform Pivots Toward Data Centers and Net Lease
The $19.7 billion CRE lender posted a GAAP net loss but distributable earnings cleared the dividend hurdle, signaling that a portfolio reset built...
Apartment Titans AvalonBay and Equity Residential Eye $50B Merger That Could Redraw US Rental Map
The two largest US apartment REITs are in early-stage talks on a combination that would create a roughly 200,000-unit landlord and reignite REIT...
Bay Area Swallows Q1 Venture Capital as Seattle and Los Angeles Fall Further Behind
OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI concentrate $221.1 billion in Northern California while Southern California and the Pacific Northwest scrape single-digit billions in a market...
Carmel Partners Closes Fund 9 at $1.35 Billion
SAN FRANCISCO, April 7, 2026 – Carmel Partners (“Carmel”) announced today the final close of Carmel Partners Investment Fund 9, its U.S. multifamily real estate value...
Spring Break Rebound Pushes U.S. Office Occupancy Past 54%, but a Stark Regional Divide Persists
The latest Kastle Systems data reveals accelerating return-to-office momentum nationally, with Texas metros nearing pre-pandemic attendance and Class A+ buildings approaching full capacity—while...
AI Workforce Disruption Poses Existential Risk to Office Space Demand in Knowledge Economy
Research reveals theoretical replacement capacity far exceeds current adoption, but future commercial real estate contraction looms if automation accelerates Anthropic’s latest research mapping...
AI’s Toll on Customer Service Signals Broader Workforce Reckoning as Tech Spending Reshapes Markets
New survey data shows customer support hiring has cratered by nearly two-thirds in two years, even as historical patterns suggest AI will ultimately...
