A mortgage officer who just began a new career as a real estate agent was killed on Friday night when a gunman opened fire at a gas station in Bessemer, Alabama. AL.com reported 41-year-old Wesley Fowler Jr. was one of three men fatally shot at a Citgo station near...
Pending sales of condominiums were down by 5.5% year-over-year last month, according to new data from Redfin (NASDAQ: RDFN). This marked the lowest level for pending condo sales in any July on record. At the same time, the number of condos for sale rose 27.1% from one...
Mortgage application activity ended August on the rise, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) covering the week ending Aug. 30. The Market Composite Index, the MBA’s measure of mortgage loan application volume, increased 1.6% on a seasonally...
New York City-based Global Net Lease Inc. (NYSE: GNL), a real estate investment trust focused on income producing net lease assets, continued its strategic disposition plan with the sales of The Plant Shopping Center in San Jose, California, for $95 million and the...
A historic Newport mansion built during the Gilded Age has become the most expensive Rhode Island residence to sell this year. The Newport Daily News reported the sale of The Orchard for $10.8 million. Built in 1873 and located on a 4.75-acre property along Newport’s...
The delinquency rate for commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) inched up by one basis point in August to reach a level of 5.44%, according to new data from Trepp Inc. But unlike in many previous months when the office sector was responsible for driving up the...
Hits and Misses for the Real Estate Week of June 15-19
