Hotel union deal puts cleaners on track for $100K salaries
Tentative contract delivers historic raises as owners brace for heightened labor costs
Top stories
Get the latest
Real Estate news
Real Estate news
Headlines delivered weekly
Development
South Florida
“Tampa we love”: Jon Paul, Nick Pérez say some investors “not comfortable” with gulfside city
Related Group scions went in on SoFla’s shift to domestic buyers, branded condo boom during CNBC interview
Residential
Texas
Foreclosures tick up in stubbornly expensive Austin
Former boomtown led nation in residential foreclosure growth last month
Commercial
National
ICSC 2026: Parties, panels, pools — and chasing down deals
Debauchery may have mellowed but that doesn’t stop pros from letting loose, as retail's biggest event ends today
Residential
Chicago
Chicago MLS cuts off data feed to Zillow
Third largest MLS suspended tens of thousands of listings over private marketing fight, as Zillow lawsuit against MRED, Compass continues
Construction
National
Nation’s biggest builders hit with wave of defect claims
Homeowners allege faulty construction, developers blame aggressive lawyers
Commercial
Tri-State
Fraud allegations pile up against Bert I. Dweck and his family
Former investors, lenders circle Dweck family’s New Jersey estate
Commercial
New York
RealPage rent-fixing settlements pass $200M (and counting)
More landlords strike deals to exit litigation in antitrust fight
Brand Studio
Capital Minds: How Charney’s Partner Quietly Engineered a Real Estate Powerhouse
Inside the mind of Charney Companies COO Justin Pelsinger
Commercial
South Florida
“Perception becomes reality”: Miami-Dade office rents reach records
Landlords and tenants are negotiating new deals at over $200 psf
Hotel union deal puts cleaners on track for $100K salaries
Tentative contract delivers historic raises as owners brace for heightened labor costs
Mamdani targets Brooklyn corridors for major housing push
Prospect Park South rezoning along IBX route could pave way for thousands of apartments
Tri-State
Saunders joins forces with Premier Estate Properties to link ultralux markets
Hamptons-based brokerage is teaming up with Palm Beach firm
J-51 reboot flops for rent-regulated landlords, boosts co-ops and condos
A revised tax break made it into the state budget with winners and losers
“Extend and pretend” is not real, Fed economist says
New research paper by a Federal Reserve Board economist suggests big banks extended CRE loans at historical norms
Building Equity Management plotting in Nolita
Firm’s $45M purchase comes after adjacent acquisitions
Publix rings up discounted shopping center near Boynton Beach for $78M
Lakeland-based grocer’s spending on retail plazas anchored by its supermarkets has reached $378M
Billionaires Michael Dell and Byron Trott hire Elliman to lead condo sales in Boca Raton
Penthouses at the Residences at Boca Raton start at $15M
Dingle brothers sell waterfront spec mansion for $75M in Boca Raton record
Deal will reset pricing in the city and within Royal Palm, broker said
Judge tosses condo owners’ suit against Fontainebleau Miami Beach over short-term rentals rules
Arguments from Jeffrey Soffer’s firm likely to be used in future condo-hotel disputes
Related Group scores rezoning for 20-story apartments in busy Riviera Beach
Project with BH Group and Tezral Partners is part of Marina Village redevelopment
South Florida’s top deals: Publix drops $78M in Boynton Beach
TRD reports the most important transactions for May 20, 2026
Videos
From private jets to federal charges: The fall of ‘Big Bizzneesss’
Richard LeFrak’s $4 BILLION Bet on North Miami | Coffee Talk
Pendry Residences Nashville use Gaggenau to take Paseo South Gulch to new heights of luxury
Miami developer admits to stealing $85 million
A new 1% tax could change NYC luxury deals forever
What 50 feral cats reveal about the housing market’s AI problem
How the last great development site in NYC left Upper East Side renters with nowhere to go
Agents level up their tax game with RLTY and Nimbl
The $1 billion Texas rodeo project torn apart by a family feud
The Times Square scam that fooled a real estate giant
California accuses State Farm of cheating fire victims
Is NYC anti-real estate? Mamdani's housing chief weighs in
NYC has gambling all wrong, says Bally's chairman
HPD Commissioner Dina Levy to real estate: “We are not enemies” | The Real Deal's NYC Forum 2026
Madison Realty Capital, TYKO Capital execs on private credit and writing big checks | NYC Forum 2026
![“Legalize it and tax the [bleep] out of it”: Bally’s Soo Kim on gaming | NYC Forum 2026](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/MM5i0WvxJDU/sddefault.jpg)
“Legalize it and tax the [bleep] out of it”: Bally’s Soo Kim on gaming | NYC Forum 2026
Vornado, CBRE, and Newmark execs talk pied-à-terre tax, the office boom, and more | NYC Forum 2026
Why Queens and Brooklyn are the new frontiers for luxury housing development | NYC Forum 2026
Richard LeFrak on Zohran Mamdani, NYC housing & why developers are “villains” | Coffee Talk
Pam Liebman BETS $1M Corcoran won’t become Compass in brokerage showdown
Kirman courts new crowd, international buyers at Privé Malibu
His Christie’s International Real Estate SoCal landed sales contract for 68-unit coastal development
Onni’s $400M loan finds itself in special servicing again
Moved at borrower’s request, could be workout play as Onni plans office to resi
LA County’s post-fire rent gouging ban goes up in smoke
Landlords will have free reign to hike rents more than 10% starting May 29
Oceanwide Plaza buyer loses city’s favor, confirmation hearing pushed again
City of LA rejects KPC, Lendlease $470M credit bid, claims insufficient plan
LA County brings Palisades, Eaton fire recovery efforts under one roof with new agency
2.3K county permits issued to date as rebuild chugs along
Abandoned Baldwin Park school slated for more than 100 townhomes
Developers across California eye educational sites for housing construction
Yitzy Klor pursuing third deconversion of the same Chicago condo building with $98M offer
Condo owners will vote on a third bulk buyout offer after two failed attempts from Klor
Chicago MLS cuts off data feed to Zillow
Third largest MLS suspended tens of thousands of listings over private marketing fight, as Zillow lawsuit against MRED, Compass continues
Habitat, M/I Homes pay $13M for residential site in Chicago’s North Shore
Developers plan 227-home development on 28-acre Highland Park site
Ahitow’s CityPads cashes out of Evanston apartments in sale to TLC
Stuart Handler buys 120-unit Tapestry Station in 1031 exchange
Mike Reschke tees up latest Loop office bargain
One of Chicago real estate’s most prominent figures advances push to revamp city’s central business district with deal for mostly vacant tower
Multifamily momentum swells as three North Side Chicago complexes list
Two of the listings would make for the biggest deals Chicago apartment purchases in 2026
YIMBY movement split on who should be CA’s next governor
Varying endorsements reveal a coalition united on the housing crisis but divided on who can fix it
22-bedroom East Bay estate trades for near-record price
AI boom continues to drive big-ticket mansion sales across Bay Area
Swenson switches to affordable apartments at downtown San Jose site
Local developer won approval in 2022 for market-rate residences
San Jose motel eyed for housing conversion as Mahan touts lodging-to-living push
Mayor and gubernatorial candidate points to strategy as city inches toward state housing goals
Pac Heights’ Apple orchard grows with another exec mansion buy
SF’s ultra-luxury market on fire in active spring sales season
SF waterfront property hits market for $250 — snorkel required
5K sf lot the latest underwater parcel in Bay Area to go up for sale
Foreclosures tick up in stubbornly expensive Austin
Former boomtown led nation in residential foreclosure growth last month
DFW sprawl reaches “horse country” with 490-acre land buy
Homebuilder cinched family ranch west of Fort Worth
Houston
Bank OZK expanding in Houston by nearly tripling office space
Arkansas-based bank also doubled its branches in the Houston area
Can JLL smooth out Sundance Square leasing as Sasha and Ed Bass step back?
Plus, looming housing legislation spooks BTR developers, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin eyes Hutto for $650M project and more Texas real estate news this week
It’s official: Fifth Third Bank will exit Downtown Dallas Comerica Tower after Comerica merger
Bank is downsizing with move to Preston Center, following February merger with Comerica
Another master-planned community enters the North Texas pipeline
Grayson County land purchase spans 180 acres near Oklahoma border
Wall Street crowds into niche corner of real estate private credit
Non-traded mortgage REITs — similar in structure to Blue Owl’s controversial credit arm — are seeing a surge of new startups
Nation's biggest builders hit with wave of defect claims
Homeowners allege faulty construction, developers blame aggressive lawyers
ICSC 2026: Parties, panels, pools — and chasing down deals
Debauchery may have mellowed but that doesn’t stop pros from letting loose, as retail's biggest event ends today
Industrial Realty partners with Sachem for $3.4B REIT
Mortgage lender joins forces with Los Angeles industrial giant in pivot
Elliman’s weak first-quarter performance casts doubt on turnaround
A closer look at the firm’s tenuous state of recovery
Scion Group, Ares buy Harrison Street’s $910M student housing portfolio
New joint venture is betting big on the sector
Japanese real estate bank lending soars to record high
$113B spending leads to concerns of market overheating, spec flipping
Czech billionaire Karel Komárek in pole position for second London office buy
Investment group KKCG submits £282M bid for 1 St James’s Square
Housing Notes: Chinese consumers prefer existing housing over new development
Households now favor certainty over buying off-plan
Australian Trump Tower project scrapped by developer shortly after grand reveal
Trump Org developments advancing in Middle East as name becomes “toxic” Down Under
Lionel Messi makes return to Barcelona … real estate
Inter Miami star purchases shuttered shopping center for $14M
Brookfield doubles down on Dubai with 480K sf mixed-use venture
Canadian investment giant teams with Alshaya Group despite regional instability
New York
Brooklyn and Queens fuel NYC’s off-market deal surge
Off-market residential sales jumped across NYC in 2025 as private listings spread beyond Manhattan’s luxury core
National
Residential foreclosures soar in Sun Belt metros
FHA loans, affordability concerns add to pressures on borrowers
National
Commercial originations surge 52% amid lender "feeding frenzy"
Commercial real estate debt originations climb at highest rate in five years
New York
Tax abatement 485x, tariffs slam NYC construction pipeline
Staten Island, Queens report biggest fall-offs in new building activity
New York
TRD’s top brokers: Independent firms thrive in Manhattan luxury
Manhattan’s indie brokers embrace “pain in the ass” status
National
South leads U.S. in existing home sales growth
Deals plunge the most in the Northeast in April, according to the National Association of Realtors
Los Angeles
LA County brings Palisades, Eaton fire recovery efforts under one roof with new agency
2.3K county permits issued to date as rebuild chugs along
National
Elliman’s weak first-quarter performance casts doubt on turnaround
A closer look at the firm’s tenuous state of recovery
Los Angeles
Kirman courts new crowd, international buyers at Privé Malibu
His Christie’s International Real Estate SoCal landed sales contract for 68-unit coastal development
Chicago
Multifamily momentum swells as three North Side Chicago complexes list
Two of the listings would make for the biggest deals Chicago apartment purchases in 2026
New York
NYC’s top deals: Soho apartment building trades for $43M
TRD reports top transactions for Wednesday, May 20, 2026
South Florida
South Florida’s top deals: Publix drops $78M in Boynton Beach
TRD reports the most important transactions for May 20, 2026
Upcoming Events
The Real Deal and BSH: Building Luxury, Washington D.C.
BSH Experience & Design Center
Salon Series: Victor Sigoura
The Real Deal HQ
The Real Deal’s Podcast
Deconstruct
The Real Deal’s Joe Lovinger and Suzannah Cavanaugh break down the newest, biggest trends and concepts in real estate.
New York
“Extend and pretend” is not real, Fed economist says
New research paper by a Federal Reserve Board economist suggests big banks extended CRE loans at historical norms
New York
Building Equity Management plotting in Nolita
Firm’s $45M purchase comes after adjacent acquisitions
New York
NYC’s top deals: Soho apartment building trades for $43M
TRD reports top transactions for Wednesday, May 20, 2026
South Florida
South Florida’s top deals: Publix drops $78M in Boynton Beach
TRD reports the most important transactions for May 20, 2026
National
Scion Group, Ares buy Harrison Street’s $910M student housing portfolio
New joint venture is betting big on the sector
Los Angeles
Onni’s $400M loan finds itself in special servicing again
Moved at borrower’s request, could be workout play as Onni plans office to resi
South Florida
Related Group scores rezoning for 20-story apartments in busy Riviera Beach
Project with BH Group and Tezral Partners is part of Marina Village redevelopment
Chicago
Mike Reschke tees up latest Loop office bargain
One of Chicago real estate’s most prominent figures advances push to revamp city’s central business district with deal for mostly vacant tower
Texas
It’s official: Fifth Third Bank will exit Downtown Dallas Comerica Tower after Comerica merger
Bank is downsizing with move to Preston Center, following February merger with Comerica
Chicago
Sightwell scraps suburban Chicago lumberyard redevelopment plan
Construction on the performing arts center portion will move forward, but retail and residential are on hiatus
South Florida
“We cannot fall so far behind”: Controversial 5-story jewelry store project sails past approval
After 2 hours of presentations and public comment, commissioners unanimously voted “yes”
Texas
Another master-planned community enters the North Texas pipeline
Grayson County land purchase spans 180 acres near Oklahoma border