Eviction filings in court were up 8.7% in September from August. But the rate is still low on a historic basis, and, at 36,796 filings, it is roughly half the average September rate pre-pandemic.

The number of workers returning to traditional office space has been edging higher since the week of Labor Day, when an average of 31% of the workforce was back in 10 major cities. The average hit 36% during the week that ended Oct. 8, a new high during the pandemic period.

The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller National Home Price Index, which measures average home prices in major metropolitan areas across the U.S., rose 19.7% in the year that ended in July, the highest annual rate of price growth since the index began in 1987.

Gun maker Smith & Wesson Brands Inc. is moving its corporate headquarters from Massachusetts to Tennessee, joining other firearms manufacturers that have moved from the mid-Atlantic and Northeast to Southern states with less restrictive gun laws. The company will invest more than $125 million to relocate its headquarters.

Overall, publicly traded U.S. companies own land and buildings valued at $1.64 trillion. That is up 38% from 10 years ago, and the highest for at least the past 10 years.

Homes sold in July received an average of 4.5 offers each, up from 2.9 offers a year earlier with about 23% of existing sold homes purchased in cash, up from 16% a year earlier.

Google said it is buying a Manhattan office building for $2.1 billion. The deal for the new building on Manhattan’s West Side is the most expensive sale of a single U.S. office building since the start of the pandemic—and one of the priciest in U.S. history.

Market participants increasingly believe that Beijing will let China property developer Evergrande fail and inflict losses on its shareholders and bondholders. The company’s debt burden is the biggest for any publicly traded real estate management or development company in the world.

Pimco also has become a more active real estate investor after its parent, Allianz SE, put the firm in charge of managing its Allianz Real Estate investment business. Between its own investments and those made by Allianz, Pimco acquired $12 billion in private commercial property between January 2020 and June 2021. The combined Pimco and Allianz real-estate business also originated or invested in $7 billion in real-estate loans during that time.

National asking rents rose 10.3% in August, measured on an annual basis. That marked the first double-digit increase in the more than 20 years this data has been collected.