CRE Journal: 8/11/2025

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Top Stories

• Markets Brace For Inflation's Big Return

• U.S. Apartment Rent Growth Slows to 1.1% Year-Over-Year

• With A Record $100B In Deals This Year, The Real Estate Secondary Market Is Having A Moment

• CMBS Distress Rate Adds 32 Basis Points in July

Retail

• SRS Closes Trio of Starbucks Sales in 1031 Deals

• 5 of retail’s most impactful deals in 2025

• Billions in Mall Loans Extended Amid Struggles to Refinance and Sell Properties

• Restaurants and Retail Target New Space Amid Century City Office Boom

Office

• Douglas Emmett Turning Westwood Office Tower Into Apartments

• How Law Firm Office Fit-Out Costs Compare Across the U.S.

• The return-to-office push is one factor fueling CRE activity. Here's what's changing

Industrial

• Prologis Secures Packaging Tenant With 78K-SF Inland Empire Lease

• Sterling Logistics Fund Acquires Former Bay Area Walmart Store

• GBI’s Vicki Worden: Data Centers, Sustainability Go “Hand-in-Hand”
  

Multifamily

• West LA Development Site Could Hold 200-Plus Apartments

• JV Buys LA Workforce Housing

• Issues in Los Angeles weigh on Essex’s second quarter

Industry Insights

• Current CRE Prices Signal a Market Stuck in Limbo

• Top 50 Real Estate Investment Managers in 2025

• Unlock Insights: Real-Time Commercial Real Estate Data to Invest with Confidence

Events

• ICSC@WESTERN

• Upcoming Events Calendar

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Quote of the Day

“To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go wrong in someone else’s.” —Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian novelist

Till next time,

Daniel