Last week in commercial real estate, the story wasn't prices — it was rules. The Fed singled out CRE as a sector where credit is still tight and pushed expected rate cuts further out, telling anyone banking on cheap-money refinancing to wait. At the same time, the three-year "extend and pretend" narrative cracked: a Fed economist found little evidence banks are hiding bad loans, while banks are openly writing them down and lending again — suggesting the distress wave some funds are still waiting for may have already passed. Permission, not capital, drove the other two: four very different cities moved within days to pause data-center construction over power and water, shrinking the buildable map, while HUD signaled it may tie federal housing grants to whether cities actually speed up permitting. The throughline — for anyone building or financing in 2026, the policy and the paperwork now move the market as much as the price does.
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