Gravel2Gavel Construction & Real Estate Law Blog
In our latest roundup, lab space real estate faces challenges, demand for data creates power brokers, the cost burden of sports stadiums, and more!
- The U.S. office market is bouncing back, entering a growth cycle after years of fighting vacancies. (Joe Burns, Construction Dive)
- Cities eager to tout privately financed sports stadiums are still spending big through tax breaks, land deals and public financing that shift costs back to taxpayers. (Vicky Uhland, Construction Dive)
- The Senate passed a bipartisan bill on October 9 that aims to boost the nation’s housing supply with a wide range of methods. (Julie Strupp, Multifamily Dive)
- Lab space real estate faces challenges as funding from Washington, DC, and Silicon Valley declines. (Daniel Geiger, Business Insider)
- The commercial real estate industry is embracing blockchain technology in ways that could fundamentally transform how buildings are bought, sold and financed. (Yahoo)
- Real estate investors, both individual and institutional, bought one-third of all single-family residential properties sold in the second quarter of 2025. (Diana Olick, CNBC)
- The sudden surge in demand for data is fast creating new commercial real estate sectors—not just data centers, but so-called quantum real estate and powered land. (Diana Olick, CNBC)