Реалист Lab

Daily research on real estate, AI, investments and markets. Every figure opens the document it came from.

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Review No. 1 · 1 Nov 2026

The Capital Map

$1.53 trillion of loans comes due. Who buys, and what.

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Review · Oct 2026

Who CRE is hiring

Vacancies by role and metro across the US.

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AI · 2 Nov

AI inside the investment committee

Which underwriting steps firms moved to AI.

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Review No. 3 · 3 Nov 2026

The refinancing wall, metro by metro

Where the loans are, where they hurt, where they cannot refinance.

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Review · Banks · 4 Nov

Banks over the CRE line

264 US banks, $283 billion, state by state.

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Review · Lenders · 5 Nov

Beyond the banks

57 mid-size non-bank lenders: who lends against what, and the gap to banks.

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Review · REPE · 5 Nov

Who buys for the REPE funds

361 managers with $250 million or more, and how small their deal teams are.

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Ratings · 4 Nov

Metro Ratings, Q4 2026

Distress against rent growth, 15 US metros.

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Review · Jobs and homes · 6 Nov

Homes for every job

Permits against jobs added in 12 big states.

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Review · Banks · 6 Nov

The 117 larger banks

$784 billion of property loans, 8 banks over the line.

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Review · Costs · 7 Nov

What a building costs now

12 building goods since 2020: metals doubled, lumber fell back.

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Review · Affordability · 7 Nov

Carrying a home

The payment on a median listing against income in 12 big states.

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Review · Insurers · 8 Nov

Insurers’ property loan books

$782 billion of property loans, and a third of it is now apartments.

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Review · Development · 8 Nov

Where development still pencils in 2027

Land, build cost, rate and exit yield for a new apartment unit in 18 metros.

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Review · Housing market · 8 Nov

The shelf is refilling

Homes for sale against October 2019 in 15 big metros: more in 11, and fewer arriving in all 15.

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Review · Construction · 9 Nov

Who is building

Construction jobs against September 2019 in 15 big states, and the permits per thousand workers.

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Review · Home prices · 9 Nov

Two speeds

Home prices against their peaks in 15 big metros: 5 at a record, 7 still 3 % to 5 % under.

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Review · Construction · 10 Nov

Follow the construction dollar

Private construction spending by building type against 2019: data centers and power at a record, hotels and offices for people down.

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Review · Asset managers · 10 Nov

Multi-asset managers and real estate

25 big managers: real estate funds are 9.5 % of the private-fund book, and 5 run them through a property adviser.

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Review · Lending · 10 Nov

Construction and land loans, state by state

Banks of $10 billion and more cut 15.8 %; 4,148 smaller banks grew 4.1 %. All 50 states and DC.

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Review · REITs and debt · 11 Nov

The REIT refinancing wall

A quarter of listed REIT debt comes due in 2027 and 2028: $82.3 billion across 58 REITs, by property type and by company.

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Review · Hotels and debt · 11 Nov

Hotel loans coming due, metro by metro

Hotel bond loans maturing in 2026 and 2027 in nine metros: $638.6 million visible for 2027, a floor.

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Review · Rates and values · 12 Nov

Cap rates against the 10-year

Fund exit cap rates in four property types against the 10-year Treasury: multifamily is 51 basis points over it, office 195.

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Review · Office and development · 12 Nov

Office-to-apartment conversions

A 90,300-unit pipeline: ten metros hold 49,374 units, and a policy study finds 16 of 18 tested buildings do not pencil without help.

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Review · Multifamily · 12 Nov

What ate multifamily NOI

The national 2025 rent dollar (owners kept about 11 cents), rent and payroll in 24 metros, insurance in 10. Metro property taxes are the gap.