Name: What shaped real estate in 2025: behind The Real Deal's stories on wildfires, Witkoff, Mamdani &more
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Every month, The Real Deal brings the biggest stories in real estate to life in its flagship magazine. This year, that meant surveying the damage after Los Angeles' devastating wildfires, mapping billionaire developer Steve Witkoff’s journey to the Middle East and more. Watch publisher Amir Korangy and creative director Paul Dilakian pull back the curtain on the year’s biggest headlines and explain how TRD’s cover stories came to be.

What shaped real estate in 2025: behind The Real Deal's stories on wildfires, Witkoff, Mamdani &more

Who's standing alongside Zohran Mamdani as New York's next housing agenda takes shape? Watch as we break down the early hires and advisers who will steer development, permitting, affordable housing finance and tenant enforcement — from pipeline pros to housing wonks to tenant organizers, and everyone in between.

How will Zohran Mamdani’s administration selects affect real estate in NYC? #shorts

Kent Swig—real estate developer, president of Swig Equities, and co-chairman of Brown Harris Stevens—says success in managing billions of dollars in real estate comes down to “the three B’s: brokers, buildings, and bankers.”

Kent Swig on how his family built it's billion-dollar dynasty, talks marriage to Liz Macklowe & more

Who'd invest in a neighborhood so dumb its name is literally DUMBO? As it turns out, a whole lot of people.

How Brooklyn's abandoned waterfront in DUMBO became one of its hottest neighborhoods

While it may have peaked, migration to Florida is still going strong, and agents need a reliable moving partner to help their clients complete the final leg of their home purchasing journey. Watch our latest video at the #linkinbio to learn how Roadway Moving works with agents to give clients a white glove moving experience.

The moving partner agents can trust | Brand Studio

In 1978, artists named their Brooklyn waterfront neighborhood “DUMBO” in an attempt to deter gentrification, but the effort ultimately failed. After developer David Walentas began purchasing large amounts of property in the early 1980s, the former industrial area gradually transformed, particularly following a 1997 rezoning that allowed residential conversions. Once home to factories and later artists, DUMBO has since become a major tourist destination and one of New York City’s most expensive neighborhoods, shaped by strategic development and its preserved creative identity.

From Industrial Waterfront to DUMBO: How the Neighborhood Was Made

Locked-in low mortgage rates have kept homeowners from trading up or moving on in many markets across the country. But not these.

Top 5 US cities people are leaving #shorts

TRD took a New York Minute to meet the founding partners of the Highland Group Christie’s International Real Estate Group. The Group’s office in historic Westfield serves as their base of operations across the Garden State, where they’re leveraging the Christie’s brand to deliver bespoke service to clients looking to buy and sell luxury real estate.

Christie’s International Real Estate Group, the Michelin Star of real estate | Brand Studio

A Massachusetts jury convicted Brian Walshe of first-degree murder in the death of his wife, Tishman Speyer executive Ana Walshe, closing a case that has haunted the real estate world since she vanished around New Year’s 2023.

Tishman Speyer exec’s husband found guilty of murder | TRD News

Take a trip to the middle of Biscayne Bay for a first look at the Pagani Residences.

Supercar style meets luxury living in North Bay Village | Brand Studio

Keyway AI Co-Founder and CEO Matias Recchia took the Innovation Stage at TRD’s Miami Forum to talk about transparency and privacy in the AI space. Unlike public-facing, “horizontal” chatbots, Keyway’s “vertical” AI is designed to provide real estate-specific insights based on a company’s data while avoiding hallucinations and other pitfalls. Watch the video to hear Recchia’s entire talk.

AI-powered real estate insights, on demand | TRD Forum

Opendoor was Silicon Valley’s bold bet that real estate could scale like software. iBuyers promised to turn home buying into something fast, frictionless, and scalable. But when the market dropped, Opendoor didn’t just stumble. It detonated in a very public battle.

Can Opendoor become Amazon for real estate?

TRD’s Hannah Kramer stopped by the Anchin office to talk with their industry-leading team about how the firm supports multi-generational real estate families through transitions, growth and succession. 

Meet Anchin's family business succession experts | The Real Deal Brand Studio

Christie’s International Real Estate Group is more than a leading luxury brokerage; it’s a full-service concierge for high-net-worth individuals.

Luxury concierge service across the five boroughs | Brand Studio

Netflix’s proposed $72 billion takeover of Warner Bros could turn the streamer into LA’s biggest studio landlord, reshaping who owns the soundstages, backlots and office towers the industry runs on.

Netflix’s $72B bid for Warner Bros puts 100M sf of studio real estate in play

Fresh off "The New VIP: Miami's Next Generation of Hotels, Restaurants &amp; Hot Spots" at The Real Deal’s Miami Real Estate Forum, sbe founder Sam Nazarian joined Felix Bendersky, founder of F+B Hospitality Brokerage, in the BSH VIP lounge for an unfiltered look at what's really powering and pressuring Miami's hospitality machine.

Sam Nazarian & Felix Bendersky on Miami trends, churns and next hot spots | TRD Forum

Luxury real estate YouTuber Erik Conover has pleaded guilty after a wild sequence that started with a speeding stop and ended with two police chases, an officer thrown from his hood, viral courtroom rants and a bipolar diagnosis on the record. Conover now faces up to 10 years behind bars.

Erik Conover sentenced: Luxury real estate YouTuber facing up to 10-years #shorts

Patrick Carroll helped supercharge real estate investing across the Sun Belt. And then it all fell apart.

The untold story of Patrick Carroll #shorts

Fresh off the "Resi Unicorns: How the Hottest Agents Get Hundred-Million-Dollar Offers" panel at The Real Deal's Miami Real Estate Forum, Jills Zeder Group's Danny Hertzberg sat down with Compass broker Sarah Desamours for a breakdown of what it really takes to win and move the biggest trophy listings in South Florida.

Top agents Danny Hertzberg and Sarah Desamours on unicorn listings & the next era of Miami luxury

Fresh off the "Ground-Up: Betting on Miami’s Next Generation of Office Space" panel at The Real Deal's Miami Real Estate Forum, Cushman &amp; Wakefield's Ryan Holtzman joined ANAX Partners' Eric Brody to break down what's really driving Miami’s office surge — and whether it can last.