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Contractors look ahead with caution as nonresidential construction starts slump
Builders are booked through 2019, but say the Seattle construction boom may have already peaked.
Meet Urban Pace’s Mann about town
The real estate marketing, sales, leasing and advisory firm — which focuses on new construction and luxury properties — has taken on five major projects between 64 and 135 units, including two in NoMa.
Pittsburgh developer entering Central Ohio with new Polaris community
A Pittsburgh-based senior living developer has begun work on a new facility near Polaris.
Polaris Retirement Community at 9180 Antares Ave. will be Graziano Construction and Development Company Inc.'s first property in the Columbus area. The 135-apartment community will total 155,000 square feet in four buildings, including 96 independent living units and 39 assisted living units.
The group is beginning pre-leasing for the community, which it expects to open in spring of 2019. The units will feature…
Darling Homes parent company making nearly $1B acquisition
A Scottsdale, Arizona-based homebuilder said it will acquire a competitor in a cash and stock deal worth nearly $1 billion.
Taylor Morrison Home Corp. (NYSE: TMHC) will buy AV Homes Inc. (Nasdaq: AVHI) in a transaction valued at $963 million, both companies said Thursday morning.
Both companies' boards have unanimously approved the transaction. The acquisition is expected to close sometime in the third quarter or early fourth quarter.
Fort Worth's TPG Capital, which owns roughly 40 percent of…
Top of the Market: Nashville’s most expensive homes sold from May 27-June 2
Check out the most-expensive homes sold in Nashville recently by clicking through the slideshow with this story.
Our latest installment is topped by a $1.7 million home in the 37220 ZIP code.
This weekly feature is compiled using Davidson County property records.
California developer buys land in Pearland for active-adult project
“We want to build where elders have their kids.”
Berkeley rejects fast-track approval for 260-unit housing project
A Berkeley apartment project that has been stalled for five years experienced yet another obstacle, not qualifying for fast-tracked approval under new legislation the developer hoped to utilize.
The city of Berkeley told developer West Berkeley Investments in a letter this week that its 1900 Fourth St. project — 260 housing units over a parking lot on Fourth Street in West Berkeley— does not apply to SB 35, which looks to expedite permitting for projects that are 50 percent affordable housing…
3 factors that could lead to higher mortgage rates in Houston
Housing affordability was called the “No. 1 economic challenge for further growth in this country.”
First look: MassMutual unveils new Seaport office
A team developing a new Seaport District office for financial services behemoth MassMutual on Tuesday will present the design of the $240 million facility to Boston’s architectural review board.
Springfield-based Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. plans to occupy a 300,000-square-foot office building on Parcel E in the Seaport District’s Fan Pier area by 2021. The office’s architect is Boston-based Elkus Manfredi Architects, while Richard Burck Associates of Somerville is the landscape…
Judge wants to convert Monument Square office building to apartments
Judge plans to spend $7 million renovating the building at 255 River St., which is located in Monument Square next to the Arts Center of the Capital Region.