?? Skyscrapers, starter homes, and celebrity shopping sprees | The Rundown

?? Amazon founder’s mom and pop snagged another Miami mansion ??

?? Billionaire football fam scored the priciest mansion in San Francisco this year?

?? Covid deals are off in New York, as the rent spike approaches a fever pitch ?

?? Landlords of LA panic and protest after (another) eviction moratorium extension

?? Texas starter home prices are stopping would-be first-timers in their tracks

?? We talked to the Thompson Center starchitect’s son about transparency in business and building design?

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?? Jeff Bezos’ parents are keeping Miami real estate hot. The two just dropped $44 million on their second Coral Gables mansion in the span of just one week — talk about fast fulfillment. The buy brings their total spend in the Gables to $78 million.??

?? Moguls of football and real estate just bought a record-breaker of a mansion. The Glazer family are the proud owners of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Manchester United, and now a $34.5 million mansion in San Francisco. They closed off-market, and stole Zuck’s spot for priciest home sale in the city.

?? Covid is over in New York — or at least, Covid rent deals are. It was fun while it lasted, but the recently priced-out now comprise a decent chunk of Q2 vacancies. Streeteasy told us that landlords aren’t too pressed about filling those spaces, though. As one economist said: “people still have to live somewhere.”

?? The landlords of California haven’t been quite as chill. The LA City Council just extended the sunny city’s eviction freeze. They’ve taken to the streets , decrying what they call a “band-aid solution” to holdover structural issues from the pandemic’s peak. The alternative, though, might yield a “tsunami of evictions.”

?? Texas renters dreaming of homeownership are facing a reality check . The starter home plan is a non-starter in Austin, as the cost gap between renting and buying grows wider. It may be a while before the next buyers’ market, but median home prices have dipped slightly from an all-time high.?

?? Helmut Jahn was the architecture darling of Chicago, and his son, Evan, has thoughts about the future of skyscrapers in the windy city. He weighed in on the famous Thompson Center redesign, best practices for architects when working with developers, and addressed office vacancies in our sit-down.