Cushman & Wakefield Hires New Americas Capital Markets COO

February 13, 2026 / no comments

Cushman & Wakefield has hired Bryan Doyle as chief operating officer for its Americas Capital Markets division, based in San Diego.
Doyle was brought on from CBRE, where he served as a managing director in the capital markets arm and was head of CBRE’s private client program, according to a release from Cushman. 
“As we continue to grow in scale and complexity, strengthening our operational infrastructure is critical to delivering best-in-class outcomes for our clients,” said Miles Treaster, president for Americas Capital Markets.
In his new position, Doyle will guide operational strategy and execution across the Americas Capital Markets platform.
At CBRE, Doyle was the business lead for the firm’s technology network,…

“We can destroy the f****** city”: Landlord calls for property owners to stop paying taxes 

February 13, 2026 / no comments

Humberto Lopes heard the opening bell, drew his fists and posted a profanity-laden TikTok urging landlords to stop paying their property taxes.  “Let’s start not paying the property tax for this quarter coming up. We’ll fucking bankrupt this city!” he shouted in the video posted on Tuesday. “The minute we don’t pay your property tax, New York City will fucking crumble.” “You can’t foreclose on all of us,” he said. “When you destroy us, we can destroy the fucking city,” he concluded.  In the video, Lopes holds up a poster released by the Mamdani administration this week announcing dates for […]

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The Crescent Secures $600M CMBS Refi

February 13, 2026 / no comments

JLL has arranged a $596M refinancing for The Crescent, a Class-A office property in Uptown Dallas.
JLL’s Trey Morsbach, Jim Curtin and Christopher Pratt worked on behalf of Crescent Real Estate to secure a three-year, floating-rate CMBS loan through Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan, according to a JLL press release. 
The new refinancing deal will cover the properties at 100-300 and 500 Crescent Court. This includes 1.2M SF of office space across three towers, as well as a 168K SF retail atrium. 
JLL didn’t immediately respond to Bisnow’s request for comment.
The Crescent was built in the 1980s and has become an icon of Uptown Dallas. The office space has attracted tenants such…

Netflix star sells penthouse at 70 Vestry for $57M

February 13, 2026 / no comments

The southern penthouse at 70 Vestry has lived many lives.  It served as the backdrop to a Netflix reality show. Later, it became entangled in a divorce between the show’s star and her now ex-husband.  Now it has a new claim, as one of downtown’s most expensive condos after trading for $57 million on Friday, according to public records.  The final number falls short of the recent new record set by financier Harsh Padia’s condo at 150 Charles, which sold for $60 million last summer.  The penthouse at 70 Vestry was listed for $65 million in November after the seller, […]

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Takeda Looks To Put 630K SF Up For Sublease Across 3 Cambridge Properties

February 13, 2026 / no comments

One of Massachusetts’ largest employers is planning to offload more than half a million square feet of Boston-area real estate in preparation to move into its new global headquarters.
Takeda Pharmaceuticals listed 630K SF for sublease across three Cambridge properties, CoStar first reported. The company plans to vacate roughly 200K SF each at 35 Landsdowne St., 40 Landsdowne St. and 300 Massachusetts Ave.
The move comes as Takeda’s new headquarters, BioMed Realty’s 585 Kendall St., is gearing up to open.
BioMed, along with Suffolk Construction, celebrated the topping-off ceremony for the Kendall Street building in January 2025. The firm acquired the vacant parcel where…

Japanese Giant To Buy Tri Pointe Homes For $4.5B

February 13, 2026 / no comments

A centuries-old Japanese logging conglomerate struck a $4.5B deal to buy Tri Pointe Homes. 
Sumitomo Forestry Co., a logging firm founded in 1691 that has been buying up U.S. homebuilders, agreed to pay a 29% premium on the Thursday closing price of Tri Pointe’s stock in an all-cash deal that will take the company private while keeping current management and operations in place.