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The rise of data centers tied to artificial intelligence remains the biggest news in commercial real estate in the first half of 2026. But if you strip out the booming data center segment, construction starts in the CRE sector have slackened to a pace resembling the sluggish crawl in the aftermath of the Great Recession,…

A performance measure for Federal Housing Administration-insured loans improved markedly in the past month, according to the latest numbers from Intercontinental Exchange’s mortgage technology unit. Processing Content New FHA defaults were down 15% over the previous year’s levels in June, marking the biggest decline in more than four years and potentially giving servicers more bandwidth…

Landlords made necessary improvements to rental properties to satisfy the Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards (MEES) requirements, analysis found. A report from Morningstar DBRS assessed the landlord response to MEES, which the government first considered in 2014.  Morningstar DBRS looked at rental properties that were inspected both before and after 2014 and found that landlords…

Setting financial goals is often mistaken for a wish-list exercise. In reality, effective goal-setting is a maths-driven strategy designed to prevent your lifestyle from outgrowing your earnings. For a salaried professional, the challenge isn’t just finding a good stock or fund; it is navigating 15 per cent medical inflation and the shifting tax slabs of…