Office-leasing volume declined 40% in the biggest U.S. cities in the third quarter, compared to pre-pandemic levels.

Real-estate funds managed by private-equity firms have raised $112.8 billion from pension funds and other institutional investors as of Oct. 20. That’s down from $157.9 billion in the same period last year.

Apartment demand in the third quarter was the lowest since 2009, when the U.S. was feeling the effects of the subprime crisis. Measured quarterly, the drop in demand was the worst of any third quarter—normally prime leasing season—in the more than 30 years.

Kushner Cos. is making an unsolicited bid for Veris Residential Inc. (formerly known as Mack-Cali Realty Corp) that would value Veris at about $4.3 billion including debt. Kushner offered $16 a share for the real-estate investment trust.

Blackstone will invest $500 million in privately held Resolution Life and help it raise roughly $2.5 billion. Blackstone will manage Resolution Life’s illiquid investments in areas such as private credit, private real estate and asset-based finance. The arrangement will add as much as $25 billion to the private-equity firm’s assets under management in the first year and is expected to contribute a total of more than $60 billion over the next six years.

Apartment demand turned negative last quarter, the first Q3 in at least 30 years that such a phenomenon occurred. Net demand was -82,095 units in Q3 among the markets tracked, bringing year-to-date net demand to -47,143 units.

The once-hot real estate market is swiftly slowing down, with mortgage rates for a 30-year fixed loan over 6% — up from 3.29% at the start of the year.

U.S. retail vacancy fell to 6.1% in the second quarter, the lowest level in at least 15 years, while asking rents for U.S. shopping centers in the quarter were 16% higher than five years ago.

August apartment asking rents nationally fell 0.1% from July, the first monthly decline in rent since December 2020.

For the three months ending Aug. 31, sales of luxury U.S. homes dropped 28.1%, from the same period last year. That marks the biggest decline since records began, and eclipses even the 23.2% decrease recorded during the onslaught of the pandemic in 2020.