In a city where 95 to 98 percent of residential transactions involve homes roughly a century old, new construction doesn’t need to do much to stand out. But a small group of Chicago bu...
The appeal of building multifamily housing in fast-growing Sun Belt metros is obvious: job creation, population growth, and strong absorption fundamentals draw capital in waves. What gets le...
Most housing markets follow interest rates, inventory cycles, or seasonal weather patterns. In Weber and Davis County, Utah, the dominant variable is simpler: when school starts and when it ...
When rents climb, or new construction runs over budget, most people blame material costs or labor shortages. But in fast-growing Sun Belt metros, a less visible problem is inflating project ...
Downtown Jersey City sits at a three-month absorption rate for resale condos, and once problem listings are removed (bad layouts, low ceilings, overpriced units), the effective supply drops ...
Building an ADU in a Los Angeles backyard has always meant one financial path: rent it out. A homeowner could house a family member or find a tenant, but selling the unit as standalone prope...
The challenge facing homeowners trying to sell in North Texas isn’t soft demand; it’s that builders down the street are offering rate buydowns and design credits that no individu...
Rework consumes an estimated 5 to 12 percent of total project cost on the average commercial build, according to research from the Construction Industry Institute and other industry studies,...
Months after the Altadena fires, the gap between approved permits and actual construction starts points to a bottleneck that has little to do with city bureaucracy. Homeowners with insurance...
Houston’s housing market sits in an unusual position among major U.S. metros. The fourth-largest metropolitan area in the country has maintained modest positive home price growth while...
Balanced market data can mask what’s actually happening on the ground. In Cypress, Texas, one of northwest Houston’s fastest-growing suburbs, the numbers through July 2026 show s...
The conventional narrative about commercial office space post-COVID is one of excess supply and desperate landlords. In northern and central New Jersey, the reality facing small and mid-size...
If you’re shopping for a home in one of the fast-growing communities on the edges of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, the math on building equity looks very different than it did a few...
The fix-and-flip model has long attracted small investors who want a tangible, short-cycle return. But in lower Westchester County, the conditions that once made flipping viable are eroding....
The Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex has more than 200 cities and suburbs, and it continues to expand outward. That expansion has flooded outer suburbs with new construction inventory, and the do...
