An index of building occupancies in 10 major metro areas increased 0.9 percentage points to 50.4 percent in the week ended Jan. 25, according to security firm Kastle Systems. All of the cities tracked by the company—including San Francisco...

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Opaque structures such as LLCs sometimes make it difficult to pin down who’s behind them. But the stakes are high for commercial real estate professionals who knowingly or unknowingly violate sanctions against the Russian elite.

The pattern is unfolding across the Sun Belt but nowhere more than in the Phoenix area, where institutions represented a bigger share of home purchases last year than in any other major US market, according to real estate data firm SFR Analytics...