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Co-Living’s Quiet Revolution: How Shared Housing Is Addressing America’s Affordability Crisis

America’s housing affordability crisis is forcing both tenants and investors to seek alternatives to traditional rental models. As margins shrink and costs rise for...

Hartford’s Office-to-Residential Conversions Expose the Limits of Adaptive Reuse

Hartford’s effort to convert vacant office buildings into housing reveals the limits of adaptive reuse as a large-scale solution. The city’s experience shows the...

Wilmington Landlords Are Ignoring Rental Data and Buying Based on Personal Preference, Property Manager Warns

As hundreds of new single-family homes are built each month in the Wilmington area, many landlords are purchasing properties based on personal preference rather...

From Flipper to Full-Service Advisor: How One Connecticut Realtor Built a Comprehensive Investment Practice

Connecticut’s real estate investment market has an unlikely advocate in Jay Osorno, a realtor at Alpha Capital Realty who turned his experience as a...

Victoria’s Real Estate Market Finds Stability Through Community-Centered Approach

Victoria’s residential real estate market has reached a period of relative stability, with conditions that industry veteran Tony Joe describes as balanced, a notable...

California’s Hidden Affordable Housing Crisis: Keeping Existing Buildings Open

California’s affordable housing debate is dominated by calls to build more units, faster. Lawmakers announce new construction projects. Advocates push for streamlined approvals. Headlines...

Manufactured Housing Gains Institutional Interest as Lenders Target Affordable Housing Gap

Manufactured housing is gaining traction as an institutional asset class, according to Gene Kim, who leads manufactured housing origination at Ascent Developer Solutions. Kim...

Why High Performance Construction Struggles to Scale in Residential Development

The residential development industry faces a fundamental mismatch between how it finances projects and how high-performance construction creates value, according to Cary DeCamp, Managing...

New Home Buyers Have No Idea How Poorly Their Houses Are Actually Constructed

Most homebuyers never realize that the new house they purchased is likely built to low-quality standards, according to Cary DeCamp, Managing Director of Kala...

Environmental Risk Becomes Deal-Killer for Brooklyn Industrial Investors

Sophisticated buyers who once treated contamination as a manageable cost are now walking away from industrial properties with environmental issues, sharply narrowing what qualifies...

Kansas City Construction Costs Are Dropping — But Volatile Material Prices Remain a Risk

After years of soaring construction expenses, Kansas City developers are finally seeing some relief. Labor costs are easing as contractors, faced with fewer projects...

Planning Director Explains How Infrastructure Vagueness Causes Cities to Lose Development Deals

A persistent issue in real estate development rarely receives direct attention: many cities lack clear knowledge of their infrastructure capacity, making it difficult or...

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Infrastructure Capacity Emerges as the Hidden Bottleneck in Housing Development

The housing shortage debate often focuses on zoning restrictions and community opposition, but according to one municipal planning expert, the real constraint on development...

Why First-Time Homebuyers Are Disappearing From the Conway, Arkansas Housing Market

Younger buyers are delaying homeownership longer than prior generations, creating ripple effects that threaten market stability in growing mid-size cities. In Conway, Arkansas, one of...

Why Aren’t Homeowners Selling? It’s Not Just About Rates, Say Experts

The housing inventory shortage has become one of the most persistent challenges facing today’s real estate market. While the gap between yesterday’s sub-3% mortgages...

Real Estate in Edmonton Needs Consultants, Not Salespeople

Gerard Hagan, co-owner and agent at The Best Edmonton Real Estate Team, argues that the most costly mistakes real estate buyers make are emotional,...

California’s Supportive Housing Sector Faces Structural Funding Challenges

The 2022 collapse of Skid Row Housing Trust was widely seen as a turning point for California’s supportive housing sector. Policy experts say the...

Courtney Poulos: 50-Year Mortgages Could Expand Homeownership Access Despite Criticism

Extended-term mortgage products including 50-year loans are entering affordability discussions as housing markets evaluate financing options for buyers facing elevated prices and interest rates,...