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As prices rise in major coastal cities, investors are turning to more affordable markets like Columbus, driving up prices and driving out smaller players. Data from Colliers International show Columbus accounted for half of the deal volume for multifamily properties in Ohio, with $328 million in sales in the first six months of 2018, compared with $159 million in Cleveland and $52 million in Cincinnati. We've got details on the top deals so far this year.

Another quarter brings another reshuffling of Portland's Hottest 'Hoods deck of the most home sales, highest-priced and fastest-selling homes. While sales have been trending slower this year, sizzling hot spots remain across the metro area.

Click on the images above to find out which neighborhoods rank in the top 50 for overall third-quarter real estate activity (combining homes sold, median sale price and median days on the market).

This iteration of the Heat Index is a bigger, better analysis…

Minnesota Wild star Ryan Suter is selling his 120-acre estate in Mazomanie, in rural Wisconsin's Dane County, for $4.5 million.

Suter is a Madison, Wis. native, is the middle of a 13-year, $98 million contract he signed with the Wild in 2012.

The home, built in 2011, spans 12,000 square feet. It includes five bedrooms, seven bathrooms, a movie theater, tennis courts, swimming pool, wine cellar and exercise room. The gated residence also includes a pub/billiards room in the lower level, cathedral…

Homebuilders on HBJ's 2018 largest Houston-area homebuilders List saw a three percent increase in closings in the first two quarters of 2018 compared to the first two quarters of 2017.

Housing research firm MetroStudy released second-quarter data for top homebuilders in the Houston area. The List ranks homebuilders based on the number of closings in the Houston area during the first and second quarters of 2018. Click through the slideshow above to see the 10 homebuilders in Houston with the most…

Slater Hospitality Concepts plans to create and operate a one-acre rooftop at The Interlock. Among the highlights are an infinity pool that “drops off into the city skyline.”

Drury Southwest Inc. pulled its plan for a downtown hotel.

The development and hotel company withdrew an application for a tax increment financing plan earlier this month that would have helped fund the demolition of the former Kansas City Board of Education building at 1211 McGee St. and construction of a 242-room hotel. TIF allows developers to recoup the increase in property taxes generated by a project to cover project costs.

“Drury felt that the incentive package recommended by the (Economic…

The Germantown campus of Montgomery College has been approved as a qualified institution for a state program that makes private developers eligible for real property and income tax credits.

The campus is the first such Regional Institution Strategic Enterprise Zone in Montgomery County and part of the state's effort to attract and retain businesses in targeted industries including cybersecurity, biotechnology, aerospace, manufacturing and engineering.

The Maryland Department of Commerce also on…

The listing of the Thames Street-facing portfolio has already brought a flurry of calls, said Henry Deford, of Mackenzie Commercial Real Estate.

Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms continues to redesign a proposed $5 billion redevelopment proposal for the downtown Gulch area in an effort to win over a majority of the Atlanta City Council.

The latest version of the deal, announced Tuesday, would reduce the maximum amount of bond financing to be backed by revenue generated from the Westside Tax Allocation District (TAD) from $625 million to $40 million. The new plan would place more financial responsibility on California-based developer CIM…

Has Austin been passed over by Amazon.com Inc. executives late in their search for a second headquarters?

That's what we wondered when we read this Oct. 19 story by the Wall Street Journal. It mentioned that execs had made return trips “over the past couple of months” to New York City, Chicago and Newark, N.J., in addition to contacting officials in Miami and the Washington, D.C. area.

There was no mention of Austin, one of 20 finalist cities in the running for the 50,000-job HQ2. Amazon (Nasdaq:…