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Retail developers are sitting on the sidelines just as tenants are ready to expand, creating a disconnect that is shaping one of the tightest and most competitive retail markets in years. That imbalance—robust retailer demand colliding with a shortage of new development—emerged as a defining theme at the National Association of Real Estate Editors conference in Miami this week. “The fear of retail overdevelopment is very small right now,” Danny Finkle, senior managing

Scottsdale-based The Hampton Group secured $141 million in construction financing for the ground-up development of IKONIC Scottsdale — a 14-story, 245-unit ultra-luxury apartment tower. An affiliate of the development and corporate consulting firm purchased the north Scottsdale-area site for $12.25 million in December 2021, per Maricopa County records. The tower is slated to open in 2028. The luxury residences are located at 16640 North Scottsdale Road at the intersection

Bascom Arizona Ventures, a subsidiary of The Bascom Group, has acquired Domain 3201, a 289-unit, garden-style multifamily property in Tucson, Arizona, from Investors Capital Group for $45.5 million, or $157,439 per unit, in an off-market transaction. The 14-building property at 3201-3225 W. Ina Road was constructed in two phases in 1985 and 1990. The property was last renovated in 2015. The unit mix includes 137 one-bedroom, 144 two-bedroom and eight three-bedroom

After years of wild vacillation, the cumulative U.S. Multifamily market is showing signs of moving toward stabilization. Individual markets, however, all have their own stories to tell. Colliers’ Q1 2026 United States Multifamily report calls the current circumstances, “A rebalancing phase,” after a “recalibration period” to end 2025. At year’s end, the sector was still dealing with higher-than-normal deliveries and the resulting slowing of rent growth. The report finds conditions started to become

Microsoft spent over $130 million for a 100-acre site in Goodyear in a deal that closed May 29, according to real estate database Vizzda, even as some other projects in the region are being downsized or curtailed. The tech giant previously had a five-year ground lease for the property with the seller, First Industrial Realty Trust. The site is adjacent to additional land Microsoft owns — about 150 acres that it purchased back in 2019 for $37 million. That overall site, now spanning nearly

The Southwest has continued to drive industrial growth over the past 12 months. Dallas-Fort Worth and Phoenix have both emerged as national leaders in demand, reporting 29 million and 20.7 million square feet of net absorption. Net absorption measures the change in occupied inventory and is the key demand metric for the commercial real estate industry. New supply has been the primary catalyst for both markets, with a combined 54 million square feet constructed since the start of

A persistent gap between buyer and seller expectations is slowing multifamily dealmaking, even as investors continue to find opportunities across the market. That disconnect—rooted in sellers holding onto peak-era pricing and buyers waiting for clearer valuation signals—is forcing a more cautious and disciplined approach to acquisitions, according to panelists at the GlobeSt. Multifamily Owners Summit in Tampa. Moderated by John Sebree, senior managing director and head of

Beyond the cranes and work trucks, mostly empty desert surrounds the thousands of employees when they leave work for the day at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.’s Phoenix chipmaking plant. That may not be the case in coming years. A nascent development push aims to give those workers places to shop, have lunch or dinner at familiar restaurants — and maybe take a short car ride home to the emerging neighborhoods in planning and development. This 2,300-acre

One Camelback has hit another milestone as the luxury apartment complex is finally on the verge of completing its offices-to-apartments conversion project. The 11-story glass tower is now more than 90% completed and available for pre-leasing, about six months since Mesa-based Kinella Capital LLC acquired the former BMO bank building for $36 million in the wake of an earlier foreclosure sale after the original developer defaulted on the loan. The project — located at the prominent

Developers have started the process to tear down a former radio station building to make way for the highly anticipated, video game-themed Atari Hotel in a bustling section of downtown Phoenix. Main & Main RoRo LLC – an entity connected to Phoenix-based Intersection Development – applied for a demolition permit at 840 N. Central Avenue on May 7, according to city permitting records. The property is home to a building constructed in 1957 that several local radio

Investors in multifamily real estate may be overstating property values and paying more in taxes as a result of failing to separate intangible assets from the real estate itself. That oversight can lead to missed opportunities to reduce property tax burdens, according to Todd Jones, principal and CEO of RealAdvice, who spoke Tuesday at the GlobeSt. Multifamily Owners Summit in Tampa. Jones said many owners and investors do not fully account for the distinction between taxable real

Luna Grill, a San Diego-based fast-casual Mediterranean restaurant with two locations already open in the East Valley, will have at least three more open across the Phoenix area before the end of the year — and that’s “just the tip of the iceberg,” according to its CEO. The restaurant chain, which was founded in 2004 in San Diego by husband-and-wife team Sean and Maria Pourteymour, has plans to add new stores in Tempe, Avondale and north Phoenix, not far from the developing

Americans continued to spend in April, though the pace of that growth slowed as consumers faced multiple headwinds. Inflation-adjusted income growth turned negative for the second consecutive month, gasoline prices remained elevated near four-year highs, and inflation across other categories also ticked up. Increasingly, consumers are dipping into savings and relying on accumulated household wealth to maintain spending power. That’s a fragile balance likely to intensify the reach of

Diversified Partners has officially closed on the landmark Scottsdale waterfront property that will become The Lakefront at Scottsdale, a mixed-use redevelopment designed to revitalize one of the area’s most recognizable lakefront sites. The Lakefront at Scottsdale represents the revitalization of a landmark waterfront site in Scottsdale, transforming a long-established location into a destination for dining, curated retail and gathering spaces. The development integrates hospitality-

Office attendance has yet to build on last year’s gains, despite a gradual tightening of return-to-office policies among many of the nation’s largest employers. A new report from Savills found that office visits stood at 67% of January 2020 levels in March 2026, down from a recovery high of 75% reached in 2025. At the same time, workplace policies among the top 200 Fortune 500 companies continued to shift incrementally toward greater in-office expectations, suggesting that stricter

1. University of Phoenix – Riverpoint Center: Sale price: $103,000,000, Address: 4025, 4035, 4045, 4050 and 4055 S. Riverpoint Pkwy., Phoenix, Property description: 628,192 square feet of office tower — one 10-story and two 6-story towers, Buyer: LXP Industrial Trust, Seller: Epic UK Ltd/, Broker: Newmark. 2. Longbow Luxury Apartments: Sale price: $95,250,000, Address: 2950 N. Recker Rd., Mesa, Property description: 339-unit apartment complex, Buyer: Millburn and

Canadian investment firm Belkorp has acquired a distribution building in Phoenix from Oxford Properties Group for $44.15 million, or approximately $253 per square foot. The two-story, 174,801-square-foot building at 3809 E. Watkins St. was constructed in 1996. The property is fully leased to PillPack, which has occupied the entire building since November 2018. The lease runs through August 2030. PillPack is a part of Amazon’s pharmacy service and packages customer

Downtown Phoenix is a brief vertical moment within the city’s low-slung sprawl, which unfurls across more than 500 square miles toward the city’s valley edge. From my airplane window, it appeared as a patch of overlooked stubble on a recently shaved cheek. The man at the airport information desk unhurriedly explained how to arrive there by taxi, but made sure to warn against the light rail system, which, he explained, was the slower alternative. This may seem an ill-advised place for

Machine Investment Group (MIG), a real estate investment platform focused on opportunistic, distressed and special situations across the United States, in a joint venture partnership with Miramar Capital and Axonic Capital, announced the acquisition of The Hub @ 202, a 1,271,390-square-foot, 10-building industrial park located in the Southeast Valley. The industrial campus consists of 10 separate buildings ranging in size from approximately 65,000 square feet to 270,000

Prime Data Centers, a leading international developer and operator of hyperscale and purpose-built data centers, today broke ground on the first three data centers of its new 5-building 240MW IT Phoenix campus in Avondale, Arizona. Each building is a 267,000-square-foot facility, delivering 48MW of critical IT load capacity. This serves as the opening phase of the campus, which will ultimately span 66.5 acres, 1.3 million square feet and 240MW of total critical power across five

The final buildings at the Trailhead mixed-use development in Peoria will break ground in the next few months, as the retail portion of the development nears full occupancy. Flower Child, a Fox Restaurant Concepts restaurant, is under construction and plans to open later this year at the $100 million development located at Happy Valley Road and 83rd Avenue. HonorHealth is also under construction on a medical office facility next to the restaurant site. The development, led by

Lenders are marketing a $629 million commercial mortgage‑backed securities offering backed by 11 Bridge Investment Group multifamily properties — an uncommon securitization in which Bridge, typically an active lender, is instead the borrower. Bridge has a significant lending arm through its debt strategies division, which originates multifamily loans nationwide and packages them into bonds sold to investors. The firm has completed 17 such securitized deals, making it one of the

Scottsdale-based Taylor Morrison Home Corporation and Berkshire Hathaway Inc. jointly announced today that they have reached a definitive agreement for Berkshire Hathaway to acquire Taylor Morrison for $72.50 per common share in cash, representing a total equity value for Taylor Morrison of approximately $6.8 billion and total enterprise value of approximately $8.5 billion. The acquisition price represents a 24% premium to Taylor Morrison’s latest closing price of $58.50 on

SkySong continues to see strong leasing activity with a new series of leases and expansions totaling more than 28,000 square feet across the project’s office buildings. The latest transactions include a mix of new tenants, expansions and long-term commitments from companies spanning financial services, construction, commercial real estate and professional services — reinforcing SkySong’s position as one of the region’s most active and resilient innovation-oriented office