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National
How Jeffrey Epstein leveraged real estate as social currency
Plus, Mark Nussbaum turns on an ally, ICE is snapping up warehouses and more national real estate news this week
Politics
San Francisco
Billionaire tax battle escalates in California
Tech executives push back on a proposed wealth levy as San Francisco condo sales slump and a $2.3B project advances and more Bay Area real estate news this week
Development
Chicago
Chicago’s prominent Ozinga brothers split from siblings, file lawsuit targeting CEO Marty Ozinga
Concrete dynasty substantially involved in Windy City real estate is infighting five years after third-generation patriarch’s death
Development
South Florida
“Betrayed”: Sunny Isles commissioners approve plans for Related, Dezer, BH’s tower amid outcry from residents
City’s $26M-plus sale of development rights allows bigger building
Development
Chicago
“How it ended up is disheartening”: Chicago developers accuse former partner of stealing dev site
Mike Reschke and Ted Koenig sued David Trandel, alleging he misappropriated $2M and diverted a Wisconsin plot to his own entity.
Commercial
National
A closer look at the industrial owners selling to ICE
Deals with the agency can draw political pushback. Some are undeterred.
Commercial
New York
Mark Nussbaum turns on former “bro” Tzali Chopp over unpaid debt
New legal filings reveal wild text messages with nursing home entrepreneur over alleged $3M loan
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Form, function, and the art of restraint: Gaggenau’s Bauhaus-inspired Expressive series
Absolute beauty meets absolute function
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New York
Meet David Mitchell: The down-on-his-luck real estate guy Jeffrey Epstein kept close
Mitchell pitched the sex offender on obscure deals for the better part of a decade. Most of them didn’t work out for Epstein.
Gencom comes for NYC’s luxury hotel crown
Plus, Epstein’s developer associate & more of the week’s biggest real estate stories
Manhattan racks up ultra-rich renters
Luxury market strength pushes rent prices, UES new dev takes the crown & more in notes from a resi reporter
4 inconvenient facts about Mamdani’s model project
What could be wrong with deeply affordable housing in East Harlem?
NYC’s top deals: Madison Realty Capital’s Joshua Zegan scoops up $20M pad in Lenox Hill
TRD reports top transactions for Friday, Feb. 20, 2026
Senior lenders move to foreclose on Worldwide Plaza
Goldman, Deutsche Bank seek court-ordered sale as Extell pushes UCC auction
Wildflower flips Queens warehouse for $92M
Terreno Realty picks up potential e-commerce hub
The Weekly Dirt: Sizing up Palantir’s move to Miami
Corporate relocation goes hand-in-hand with billionaire migration to South Florida
“Betrayed”: Sunny Isles commissioners approve plans for Related, Dezer, BH’s tower amid outcry from residents
City’s $26M-plus sale of development rights allows bigger building
Proposal to nix Florida property taxes heads to Senate after House approval
Joint resolution mandates counties and cities cannot decrease funding for law enforcement and firefighters
Industrial heir sells lakefront Palm Beach home for $57M
Ambrose Monell is grandson of industrialist and early Carnegie Steel engineer of the same name
Two waterfront homes asking $39M top signed contracts in Miami-Dade
Buyers signed 27 contracts for homes totaling $286M in asking dollar volume
Movers & Shakers: Miami Realtors CEO Teresa King Kinney to retire
Kinney will step down from nation’s largest local realtor association after 33 years
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Landlord calls for NYC property owners to stop paying taxes
Waldorf Astoria hits market after eight-year condo conversion #shorts
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Sam Altman’s OpenAI adds 223K sf to Seattle office footprint #shorts
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Does #Hollywood have to save itself? #shorts
Celebrity real estate update: The Beckhams, Floyd Mayweather & more #shorts
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Recap: Week 2 of the Alexanders' trial
CEO Robert Reffkin has made Compass a megaforce. What's next? #shorts
Boca Raton is at war over a mega development | #shorts
Inside the Alexander brothers’ defense machine | #shorts
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Richard A.C. Coles on how Jamie Dimon helped lead NYC’s comeback #shorts
Proposed billionaire tax “icing on cake” of resi headwinds in California
LA agents point to proposed tax on top of ULA, Hollywood contractions and insurance headaches as spurs for flight
Izek Shomof’s next office-to-resi target: Americana at Brand-adjacent building in Glendale
Developer pursuing conversion efforts from Long Beach to San Fernando Valley
Irvine locals raise big stink over Brookfield’s landfill-adjacent housing plans
City requires new Gateway Village residents to surrender right to sue trash site
Bernie Sanders hits Mark Zuckerberg’s resi portfolio in push for “billionaire tax”
Vermont progressive headlines LA rally, calls level of wealth “grotesque” and threats of exodus “disgusting”
Soundstage development keeps rolling despite high vacancy
East End Studios opened $230M Mission Campus but hasn’t yet drawn tenants
California governor hopeful wants to reopen Prop 13
Tom Steyer’s call to reassess commercial property revives a tax debate with multibillion-dollar implications for investors in the nation’s largest state economy.
Crow Holdings drops $44M on suburban Chicago retail
MetLife exits with slight gain on sale of Overlook at Oak Brook, as Amazon Fresh closure looms and another tenant emerges from bankruptcy
Razny Jewelers buys Oak Street building in Chicago, plans expansion
Luxury retailer to double Gold Coast presence with new construction, Rolex showroom
Chicago’s prominent Ozinga brothers split from siblings, file lawsuit targeting CEO Marty Ozinga
Concrete dynasty substantially involved in Windy City real estate is infighting five years after third-generation patriarch’s death
“How it ended up is disheartening”: Chicago developers accuse former partner of stealing dev site
Mike Reschke and Ted Koenig sued David Trandel, alleging he misappropriated $2M and diverted a Wisconsin plot to his own entity.
Amalgamated Bank of Chicago heads to 101 North Wacker Drive
Move across downtown comes as its LaSalle Street tower building faces apartment conversion
Chicago Plan Commission backs Fulton Market tower — over zoning chief’s objection
Domus won a rare DX-16 approval, opening door to Loop-scale density in hot corridor
Salvation Army Mission District property on market for $58M
Developers already circling 2-acre site after one week for sale
Party’s over: Wine, spirits producers close Bay Area facilities
US’ largest wine producer continues real estate downsizing
Bernie Sanders hits Mark Zuckerberg’s resi portfolio in push for “billionaire tax”
Vermont progressive headlines LA rally, calls level of wealth “grotesque” and threats of exodus “disgusting”
SF church site once proposed for housing heads to foreclosure
Forge Development defaulted on nearly $7M loan last year
Lurie’s upzoning sidelines Related California’s Presidio Terrace housing plans
More projects across city expected to collapse due to new regulations
California governor hopeful wants to reopen Prop 13
Tom Steyer’s call to reassess commercial property revives a tax debate with multibillion-dollar implications for investors in the nation’s largest state economy.
Texas “traditional family values” candidate defends purchase of Epstein ranch
Plus, Majestic pulls plug on ICE deal, Harwood’s distress gets contagious and more Texas real estate news this week
Dallas
Kushner buys Eastline Tower, marking major Dallas apartment trade
Convexity sold the 28-story high-rise adjacent to Southern Methodist University, marking one of the area’s largest single-property deals since 2022
Austin
Wilson Capital puts North Austin multifamily dev site near Q2 Stadium on the market
Property is approved for 28-story apartment building, as developer focuses on suburban projects
Dallas
Real Brokerage poaches 65 Dallas/Fort Worth agents from Fathom Realty
Departing team, led by Greg and Tiffany Bachman, maintained a four-year ranking as former brokerage’s top national team
Houston
Hunters Creek manor in Houston sells for $10M-plus
French-inspired estate topped weekly sales, despite broader market slowdown
In Texas, Compass joins “harmonious” system of established off-market networks
Long-standing Lone Star State entities precede New York-based brokerage’s private listing campaign
A closer look at the industrial owners selling to ICE
Deals with the agency can draw political pushback. Some are undeterred.
Thomas Pritzker steps down as Hyatt executive chairman amid Epstein fallout
Billionaire heir cites “terrible judgment” in maintaining ties
CMBS delinquencies hit record, lenders abandon “extend and pretend”
Office distress deepened with $25B in loans past maturity
Two witnesses, one Hamptons weekend: Inside the third week of Alexanders’ trial
Oren, Alon and Tal’s sex trafficking trial will resume Tuesday, Feb. 24
Philadelphia
Kushner Companies gets green light for Atlantic City project
180-unit development sparked fears of traffic, congestion
More details emerge on Trump’s single-family home investor ban
White House aiming to prohibit those with at least 100 properties
Hines hits jackpot with £195M West End sale in London
National Lottery operator Allwyn buys New Bond Street asset
Trump Org goes down under, plans to build Australia’s tallest tower
New York firm simultaneously expanding in Middle East
Seoul luxury housing market to lead global price growth in 2026: Savills
Chinese high-end homes expected to continue two-year value tumble
Olympic glow fuels Milan’s luxury housing boom in Italy
Prices at records, penthouses rule, districts cash in ahead of Winter Games
Alphabet eyes 2.4M sf office expansion in Indian tech capital
OpenAI, Anthropic among US companies growing in South Asian country
Iran Supreme Leader’s son tied to global property web
Inside Mojtaba Khamenei’s overseas real estate empire as protests rage
New York
NYC sponsor condo sales settle into new normal
Sales at Central Park Tower have fallen precipitously, causing overall drop since 2022
National
No more exits: The $77B "hard maturity" wall hitting CMBS
Total debt without extension options larger than in 2024, 2025
National
Data centers power REIT comeback after 2025 slump
Publicly traded REITs are up 9.2 percent year-to-date, outperforming the S&P 500, DJIA
National
Mortgage delinquencies tick up as affordability strains homeowners
MBA reports rise in loans 60 and 90+ days overdue
National
Buyers have the upper hand in every major metro — except one
Most major markets have tilted firmly in buyers’ favor in Q4
New York
NYC residential foreclosures climbed 8% in 2025
The Bronx recorded highest annual growth in new filings, per PropertyShark
Houston
Hunters Creek manor in Houston sells for $10M-plus
French-inspired estate topped weekly sales, despite broader market slowdown
San Francisco
Lurie’s upzoning sidelines Related California’s Presidio Terrace housing plans
More projects across city expected to collapse due to new regulations
Texas
In Texas, Compass joins “harmonious” system of established off-market networks
Long-standing Lone Star State entities precede New York-based brokerage’s private listing campaign
South Florida
Two waterfront homes asking $39M top signed contracts in Miami-Dade
Buyers signed 27 contracts for homes totaling $286M in asking dollar volume
New York
Legion, Nahla Capital nab buyer for 1122 Madison Ave penthouse asking $90M
Deal for duplex is Manhattan’s second most expensive inked so far in 2026
South Florida
Movers & Shakers: Miami Realtors CEO Teresa King Kinney to retire
Kinney will step down from nation’s largest local realtor association after 33 years
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Chicago
Crow Holdings drops $44M on suburban Chicago retail
MetLife exits with slight gain on sale of Overlook at Oak Brook, as Amazon Fresh closure looms and another tenant emerges from bankruptcy
International
Hines hits jackpot with £195M West End sale in London
National Lottery operator Allwyn buys New Bond Street asset
New York
Senior lenders move to foreclose on Worldwide Plaza
Goldman, Deutsche Bank seek court-ordered sale as Extell pushes UCC auction
Los Angeles
Soundstage development keeps rolling despite high vacancy
East End Studios opened $230M Mission Campus but hasn’t yet drawn tenants
New York
Wildflower flips Queens warehouse for $92M
Terreno Realty picks up potential e-commerce hub
Chicago
Razny Jewelers buys Oak Street building in Chicago, plans expansion
Luxury retailer to double Gold Coast presence with new construction, Rolex showroom
Philadelphia
Kushner Companies gets green light for Atlantic City project
180-unit development sparked fears of traffic, congestion
New York
Legion, Nahla Capital nab buyer for 1122 Madison Ave penthouse asking $90M
Deal for duplex is Manhattan’s second most expensive inked so far in 2026
South Florida
Alonzo Mourning, HTG land $47M financing for affordable senior housing
Hollywood project will have monthly rents from $713 to $1,555
Chicago
Chicago Plan Commission backs Fulton Market tower — over zoning chief’s objection
Domus won a rare DX-16 approval, opening door to Loop-scale density in hot corridor
South Florida
Continua, SP score $58M loan for North Miami apartments as rents fall
Developers started construction on 240-unit Urbania NoMi 6ave
Austin
Wilson Capital puts North Austin multifamily dev site near Q2 Stadium on the market
Property is approved for 28-story apartment building, as developer focuses on suburban projects