Today’s News 9-15-2025

New Rentals Fill Faster in Early 2025 Despite Ongoing Supply Surge New apartments were rented slightly faster in the first quarter of 2025 than in the second half of 2024, offering a brief but significant pause in what had been a long downward trend in absorption rates. In the first quarter, 48 percent of newly […]

Today’s News 9-12-2025

Job Revision Wipes Out 911,000 Positions, Fueling CRE Uncertainty The government’s latest annual job revision landed with a thud, wiping out 911,000 positions from the previous count—a 0.6% drop that marks the steepest adjustment in a decade. The sheer size of the revision is rattling economists, raising fresh questions for commercial real estate and the […]

Today’s News 9-11-2025

Never Forget! Phoenix apartment rent losses compound in August The Phoenix multifamily market is in a persistent state of fundamental imbalance, keeping vacancy elevated and rents on the decline. The average asking rent at Valley apartment properties decreased 0.5% in August, matching the decline in July and marking the seventh-consecutive month with flat or negative […]

Today’s News 9-10-2025

Phoenix’s industrial developers are thinking outside the big box The Phoenix industrial market is at the tail end of a historic construction boom that has dramatically reshaped the Valley’s landscape. Since the start of 2023, about 80 million square feet of gross industrial space was completed in Phoenix, outpacing the market’s cumulative construction total from […]

Today’s News 9-9-2025

3 projects bringing dining, shopping, housing, health care to the West Valley A new retail and restaurant development, a rehabilitation hospital and a senior living facility are among the notable developments underway in the West Valley. Here is a look at some of the projects that will bring a trendy soda shop, expanded health care […]

Today’s News 9-8-2025

Only two Southwestern markets crack the top 10 for retail rent growth Eight of the top 10 markets for the strongest retail rent growth last quarter were in the Sun Belt, including two that happen to be in the Southwest and at higher elevations: Las Vegas and Phoenix. While the average asking rent at U.S. […]