Mark Heschmeyer

The Scion Group and an Ares Real Estate fund have launched a joint venture to acquire a 12-property, 7,578-bed student housing portfolio for $910 million from Harrison Street Asset Management.

The United States Army and Air Force are moving to lease out underused base land, so far in Texas, Utah and Alaska, to private developers to build and run data centers expected to support artificial ...

Los Angeles-based Industrial Realty Group is taking a major step to unlock value from its decades-old industrial portfolio by combining 98 properties into a new real estate investment trust through ...

First Real Estate Investment Trust of New Jersey is preparing to wind down after nearly seven decades in operation, approving a plan of voluntary liquidation to sell its assets and return cash to ...

West Marine has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after years of mounting pressure from high leasing costs that executives said drained cash and blocked recovery efforts.

Applied Optoelectronics has signed multiple industrial leases in greater Houston, signaling how aggressively suppliers are scaling to meet the voracious demand for data center support systems.

This week's column examines how U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development financing is going mainstream, concerns over long-term office commitments fueled by Starbucks' plans for a second ...

Blackstone is completing its third major industrial portfolio refinancing of 2026, locking in a total of more than $4 billion in new floating-rate debt across 213 warehouse and logistics properties ...

The data center gold rush is colliding with a hard reality: Building or investing now requires far more capital than many developers can raise.

S3 Capital has closed its third construction lending fund amid a persistent housing shortage and regional banks' retreat from construction lending.

Commercial real estate lending conditions are stabilizing, but momentum has turned more cautious.

This week's column examines the end of long-running distress for a Rhode Island mall, loan maturity approaching for the owner of one of the largest U.S. showroom portfolios and a type of pooled loan ...

Australian alternative asset manager HMC Capital is scaling back its U.S. data center investments as it shifts its attention to the cost of developing properties on its home continent. The decision ...

Madison International Realty is set to acquire a majority ownership stake in Easton Town Center, one of the Midwest's highest-performing malls and mixed-use properties.

Blackstone, through its BioMed Realty subsidiary, has secured refinancing for the fully leased Center for Life Science laboratory and office tower in Boston with a $765 million commercial ...

CBL Properties has lined up new long-term financing for Fayette Mall, the largest enclosed shopping center in Kentucky, providing another example of the retail real estate investment trust’s ability ...

This week's column examines how the CMBS payoff rate is slipping at a time when more loans are about to mature, the hot start of data centers in 2026 and a troubled Chicago office complex that's ...

Sculptor Capital Management and its minority joint venture partner are putting together a large acquisition financing package to buy a marquee beachfront resort and two golf properties on Florida’s ...

Lodging Fund REIT III, a nonlisted real estate investment trust, has turned to a financial adviser as it weighs major strategic decisions amid falling hotel revenue, suspended distributions and ...

Shlomo Chopp is a New York-based commercial real estate restructuring specialist, investor and broker focusing on the complicated matter of markets under stress from mispriced, impaired or ...