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Bell Partners Adds Nearly 400 Apartment Homes to Portfolio with Acquisition of Two Communities in Northern California and Greater Boston
IRVINE, CA - Bell Partners, one of the nation s largest apartment investment and management companies, today announced the acquisition of two apartment communities, one in the San Francisco Bay Area and one in the Greater Boston area. Celeste is a 195-home Class A rental community completed in 2024 and located in…
Interra Realty Brokers $6 Million Sale of Vintage Apartment Building in Chicago’s Popular West Rogers Park Neighborhood
CHICAGO, IL - Interra Realty, a Chicago-based commercial real estate investment services firm, today announced it brokered the $6 million sale of 6500 N. Claremont Ave., a 32-unit multifamily building in Chicago s West Rogers Park neighborhood. The transaction equates to $187,500 per unit. Interra Senior Managing…
Lexington Homes to Bring 53 New Townhomes to Chicago’s North Shore with Northbrook Row Near Vibrant Downtown Northbrook Market
CHICAGO. IL - Chicago-based Lexington Homes announces its second new townhome community near downtown Northbrook, Ill., in less than a year – Northbrook Row. The new development will offer 53 townhomes and feature a combination of homes from the builder s popular redesigned Mews floor plans and its new urban…
Chicago Policymakers Introduce Stark Rental Ordinances | National Apartment Association
The Maturity Wall Is Getting Taller
Refinancing costs are rising sharply on the $100 billion in loans coming due over the next nine months More than 2,600 conduit and SBLL CMBS loans, carrying a combined outstanding balance over $100 billion, mature over the next nine months. The balance-weighted distress rate across that pool is 5.55 percent — a…
Greenstone Partners Strengthens Chicagoland Multifamily Investment Sales Platform with Addition of Michael Duckler as Senior Director
CHICAGO. IL - Greenstone Partners, a leading commercial real estate investment and advisory firm, today announced that Michael Duckler has joined the firm as Senior Director. Duckler specializes in the acquisition and disposition of multifamily investment properties throughout the Chicagoland suburbs, advising clients…
Potrero Hill Apartments Fetch One of San Francisco's Highest Per-Unit Prices - Connect CRE
Stockbridge Capital Group has acquired the 172-unit Alta Potrero apartments at 1301 16th St. in San Francisco’s popular Potrero Hill neighborhood for $132 million from developer Wood Partners, the San Francisco Business Times reported. At $767,000 per unit, it’s among the highest-priced acquisitions of the…
CrestMarc and Midloch Investment Partners Acquire The Forum at Sam Houston Multifamily Community in Houston Metro Market
HOUSTON, TX - CrestMarc, a multifamily property investment firm based in Dallas, and Midloch Investment Partners, based in Chicago, have acquired The Forum at Sam Houston, a 294-unit apartment property serving the Sam Houston State University (SHSU) community in Huntsville, Texas, which is on the I-45 corridor just…
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CRG Strengthens Residential Platform With Appointment of Carly Shepherd as Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing
CHICAGO, IL - CRG, the national real estate development and investment firm, today announced the appointment of student housing veteran Carly Shepherd as senior vice president of sales and marketing, strengthening the leasing and marketing capabilities of the firm s expanding student housing and residential platform.…
Pennrose Cuts Ribbon on Mixed-Income Rentals in Lenox - Connect CRE
Pennrose held the grand opening of Forge, a new mixed-income rental community for individuals and families in Lenox, MA. The community features 65 apartment units across 13 townhome-style buildings, along with a modern clubhouse and shared amenity spaces. “With few affordable housing options in the area, Forge will…
Sack Capital, Align Finance Close Financing for Two Step Up Housing Acquisitions - Connect CRE
Sack Capital Partners, a San Francisco-based real estate investment and management firm, and Align Finance Partners have closed structured financing for Step Up Housing’s acquisition of two California multifamily communities: Copper Creek, a 268-unit community in Sacramento; and Terramonte at Foothill, a 138-unit…
States Explore Institutional Investor Limits in Single-Family | National Apartment Association
To Err is Human, To Mod is Bank
CRE Loan Modifications: May–July 2026 Report Summary. CRED iQ tracked 82 modified CMBS and CRE CLO loans with a combined $2.36 billion in outstanding balance from May through July 2026. The mix looks different than it did a few quarters ago: extend-and-pretend hasn’t disappeared, but it’s no longer the…
Top Stories - 8/13/2026 | National Apartment Association
Clear Investment Group Expands Portfolio with Acquisition of 300-Unit Woodland Estates Apartment Community in DC Metro Market
CHICAGO, IL - – Clear Investment Group, a Chicago-based real estate investment firm specializing in value-restoration multifamily and distressed asset opportunities, today announced the acquisition of Woodland Estates, a 300-unit multifamily community in Southeast Washington, D.C. The acquisition marks the…
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Optima Lumina Setting New Benchmarks for Luxury Condominium Customization and Pricing on Chicago’s North Shore Market of Wilmette
GLENCOE, IL - Integrated design-driven real estate firm Optima, Inc. today announced the start of condominium sales for Optima Lumina, its highly anticipated luxury condominium community in the heart of downtown Wilmette, Ill., on Chicago s North Shore. Located at the corner of Green Bay Road and Washington Avenue,…
Investment Services Firm Interra Realty Report Shows Suburban Chicago Multifamily Sales Volume Grew 67.8% in First Half of 2026
CHICAGO, IL - Interra Realty, a Chicago-based commercial real estate investment services firm, today released its Q2 2026 Suburban Chicago Multifamily Sales report. Among other findings, the firm reported that total sales volume increased by more than 67% year over year as investors chase larger deals. Data was…
CRE & CMBS Distress Report: Top 50 U.S. Metro Rankings and What’s Driving Them
Across the 50 largest CMBS markets, $45.8 billion of $393.5 billion in outstanding balance is currently distressed, a balance-weighted rate of 11.6%. Minneapolis (55.1%), Denver (35.9%), and Oklahoma City (34.1%) lead the rankings, each shaped by a handful of very large loans rather than broad weakness, while Salt…
Top Stories - 8/6/2026 | National Apartment Association
CMBS Distress Hits a 2026 High
CRED iQ's July 2026 surveillance data shows the Overall Distress Rate for CMBS climbed to 10.91%, up 22 basis points month-over-month, driven primarily by a 42-bps jump in the Special Servicing Rate to 10.38%. The Delinquency Rate rose more modestly, to 8.68%. For CRE and CMBS investors, brokers, and lenders trying to…
CRE CLO Collateral Trends: What a Handful of the Latest Deals Reveal
A handful of the latest CRE CLO deals lean hard into multifamily collateral and full-term interest-only structures. CRED iQ analyzed loan-level collateral across a handful of the latest CRE CLO deals totaling $4.68 billion and 160 loans of collateral, and the profile points to lenders concentrating risk in the sectors…
Bank Multifamily Loan Delinquencies Rise to 1.47% in Q1 2026: CRED iQ Analysis of Bank Data
CRED iQ Research | Q1 2026 | Multifamily Bank Loan Performance The overall multifamily delinquency rate at FDIC-insured banks climbed to 1.47% in Q1 2026, up 5 basis points from 1.42% at year-end 2025, according to CRED iQ analysis of the latest Banking data. Delinquent multifamily balances reached $9.78 billion,…
Freddie Mac K-Series Underwriting in 2026: What Eight New Multifamily Securitizations Reveal About Credit Discipline and the Road Ahead
CRED iQ Research | Proprietary Multifamily & CMBS Loan Analytics Across eight Freddie Mac multifamily securitizations priced in early 2026, underwriting has tightened decisively: weighted-average debt service coverage on the conduit K-series sits at 1.41x against a 63.9% loan-to-value, with full-term or partial…
NAA Announces 2026 Excellence Awards Winners | National Apartment Association
The Negative Leverage Divide: What 2026’s Newest CMBS Loans Reveal About Cap Rates, Coupons, and Credit
CRED iQ analyzed $26.1 billion of the most recently issued loans securitized in 2026 across CMBS conduit, single-asset/single-borrower (SASB), Freddie Mac, and CRE CLO transactions — and the data exposes a market split cleanly in two. On a balance-weighted basis, the average cap rate on newly originated collateral now…
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