Mill Creek Residential Breaks Ground on Single-Family BTR Community in Austin

by Phil Hall | Jan 8, 2026 | Current News & Events, Real Estate News, U.S. Housing Market, WRE News Exclusive

Mill Creek Residential has broken ground on its latest Texas development: Amavi Northwest Austin, a single-family, build-to-rent (BTR) community in the Northwest Austin/Round Rock metropolitan area. The gated, pet-friendly community will feature 144 three- and...

Democrat Senator Calls on Trump to Declare National Emergency on Housing

by Phil Hall | Jan 8, 2026 | Current News & Events, Real Estate News, U.S. Housing Market, WRE News Exclusive

Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) has called on President Trump to declare a national housing emergency while introducing a new bill that would grant him executive power to increase home construction production. In an interview with MS Now, Slotkin said that her National...

Multifamily Housing Proposed at Site of Shuttered Historic San Francisco Theater

by Phil Hall | Jan 8, 2026 | Commercial Real Estate News, Current News & Events, Real Estate News, U.S. Housing Market, WRE News Exclusive

The owner of a historic San Francisco theater that was shuttered since the pandemic plans to demolish the property and replace it with multifamily housing. SFGate reports Jesse Appleton had initially planned to restore and reopen the Empire Theater, which opened in...

Builders Predict Construction Uptick in Single-Family Housing for 2026

by Phil Hall | Jan 7, 2026 | Current News & Events, Real Estate News, U.S. Housing Market, WRE News Exclusive

The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) is predicting an uptick in the construction of single-family housing and a greater increase in home remodeling for the next 12 months. “While mindful of some weakening for the labor market, the economy remains in solid...

New Sweepstakes Offers 3 Mississippi Homes as Grand Prize

by Phil Hall | Jan 7, 2026 | Current News & Events, Real Estate News, WRE News Exclusive

Sweepstakes aficionados have a doozy of a grand prize awaiting them in a new contest by the business platform My Second Paycheck: three “income-producing investment properties” in Madison, County, Mississippi, valued up to $1.4 million. The newly launched...