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Bill Koch’s Aspen estate heads to auction asking $99M

Bill Koch’s 52-acre Aspen ranch is headed to the auction block. The billionaire industrialist and art collector listed his Elk Mountain Lodge compound for $125 million in February 2025 with Compass’ Steven Shane. After failing to find a buyer, the property, now listed at $99 million, will instead move to an online auction through Concierge Auctions, working in cooperation with Shane. The auction will run from July 7 to July 17. The move to auction is nothing new for Koch, who earlier this year raked in $84 million after auctioning his Western art collection with Christie’s, marking the most expensive […] This article originally appeared on The Real Deal. Click here to read the full story.

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Centerbridge eyeing minority stake in industrial firm

Centerbridge Partners is a frontrunner for a potential stake in a $3 billion commercial firm. The private equity group is eyeing a minority stake in Maryland-based Merritt Properties, the Financial Times reported. Talks are ongoing, but a deal is expected to be reached in the coming weeks. Centerbridge would be acquiring the minority stake from Almanac Realty Investors, the real estate investment division of asset manager Neuberger Berman. The stake represents roughly a third of the business; a majority of the business will remain in the hands of the Merritt family, which started the firm in the 1960s. Centerbridge and […] This article originally appeared on The Real Deal. Click here to read the full story.

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Housing Notes: Land appreciates, homes depreciate

We are excited to announce that Jonathan Miller, who has long authored the most authoritative report on the residential real estate market, is partnering with The Real Deal. Below, you’ll find his Housing Notes column, which will now run on our site several times a week. In addition, Miller’s quarterly report for New York City, which he published through Douglas Elliman for more than three decades, will now be “The Real Deal report, prepared by Jonathan Miller.” Miller’s data venture, Streetmatrix, which provides hyperlocal data, will provide statistics to TRD Data subscribers. — TRD editors Perfect illustration of relationship between […] This article originally appeared on The Real Deal. Click here to read the full story.

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Construction costs pile onto housing crunch as copper, lumber spike

Rising mortgage rates aren’t the only thing freezing the housing market. Builders are contending with a fresh wave of sticker shock on the job site, as soaring prices for copper, lumber, diesel and aluminum drive up the cost of putting homes in the ground. A mix of geopolitical turmoil, tariffs and supply-chain disruptions is rippling through construction materials markets at a moment when affordability is already stretched thin, the Wall Street Journal reported. The result is higher costs for developers, more uncertainty for homebuilders and even fewer paths to affordable homeownership. Copper has become one of the industry’s biggest headaches. […] This article originally appeared on The Real Deal. Click here to read the full story.

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PGIM bets big on homebuilder land banks with $4B deployment

[AI ASSISTED] Wall Street’s appetite for homebuilding exposure is increasingly running through the dirt beneath future subdivisions. PGIM, the asset-management arm of Prudential Financial, financed roughly $4 billion in residential land-bank deals through a partnership with New York-based Domain Real Estate Partners, Bloomberg reported. The deals underscore how institutional capital is flowing into asset-based lending strategies tied to the housing market, even as higher rates and affordability concerns continue to weigh on home sales. The arrangement is straightforward and popular among large builders trying to preserve liquidity. A homebuilder will sell undeveloped lots to a financing partner, then pays for […] This article originally appeared on The Real Deal. Click here to read the full story.

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