The Top Luxury Housing Market Is…Detroit?

by Phil Hall | Oct 27, 2025 | Current News & Events, Real Estate News, U.S. Housing Market, WRE News Exclusive

The new Fall 2025 Wall Street Journal/Realtor.com Housing Market Ranking of the nation’s luxury markets produced an unlikely city to top that list: Detroit. No, Detroit is not taking on Palm Springs or Palm Beach as the new epicenter for the nation’s wealthiest...

New Luxury Rental Community Planned for Las Vegas

by Phil Hall | Oct 27, 2025 | Current News & Events, Real Estate News, U.S. Housing Market, WRE News Exclusive

The real estate investor/operator Waterton has teamed the multifamily developer and manager The NRP Group to acquire an 8.5-acre site in Las Vegas for a 368-unit luxury rental community. The community will consist of two four-story, elevator-serviced multifamily...

Hits and Misses for the Real Estate Week of Oct. 20-24

by Phil Hall | Oct 24, 2025 | Commercial Real Estate News, Current News & Events, Hits and Misses, Real Estate News, U.S. Housing Market, WRE News Exclusive

A Manhattan luxury tower is falling apart, Jamie Dimon is going to the Smithsonian, and who’s photographing the East Wing demolition? From the wild and wooly world of real estate, here are our Hits and Misses for the week of Oct. 20-24. Miss: Don’t Look Up. One...

Pulte: Fannie-Freddie IPO May Be Delayed or Not Happen

by Phil Hall | Oct 24, 2025 | Current News & Events, Real Estate Investing, Real Estate News, WRE News Exclusive

Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte is backpedaling on his promotion of a potential initial public offering (IPO) for Fannie Mae (OTCQB: FNMA) and Freddie Mac (OTCQB: FMCC), raising the possibility that it could be delayed or might not happen at all....

Leadership Change at FHLBank Atlanta

by Phil Hall | Oct 24, 2025 | Current News & Events, Real Estate News, WRE News Exclusive

The Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta (FHLBank Atlanta) announced President and CEO Kirk R. Malmberg will retire, effective Dec. 31. He held the leadership positions since 2021. Reginald T. O’Shields will succeed Malmberg, effective Jan. 1, 2026. O’Shields has been...