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When a housing project costs $500,000 per unit, it looks like waste – unless half that money goes into building roads, water lines, and power infrastructure that most American communities already have. That distinction is at the heart of a funding dispute in southern Arizona, where the state denied a tribal housing authority’s tax credit ...

Sourcing materials for a $50 million construction project typically takes two to three months. For billion-dollar developments, that timeline stretches to six months. Architects must specify thousands of individual products, from facade panels to door handles, then email dozens or hundreds of suppliers, compare specifications manually, and negotiate pricing through email chains, PDF spec sheets, ...

People still move to Florida expecting a bargain. No state income tax, warm weather, reasonable home prices – that was the pitch for decades. But buyers relocating to Tampa Bay in 2026 are discovering a cost structure that the listing price doesn’t reveal: insurance premiums driven up by hurricane risk, property taxes that run higher ...

Rents in Chicago’s multifamily market are rising faster than in any other major U.S. market, according to Lawrence Dunning, a broker with The Dunning Team at Fulton Grace Realty. Yet buyers and sellers cannot agree on what buildings are worth. Rising construction costs and higher borrowing expenses have created a valuation standoff. Transaction volume is ...

While luxury condos and Class A multifamily properties dominate Miami’s real estate headlines, a different investment strategy is generating stronger returns for investors in the region. Lawrence Resnick is a Realtor at The Paz Group who focuses on commercial and multifamily transactions across Miami-Dade and Broward County. He says the properties producing the best yields ...

For a $50 million construction project, procuring materials typically takes two to three months. For projects in the $1 billion to $2 billion range, procurement alone can consume half a year. In most industries, a supply chain bottleneck of that duration would be treated as a crisis. In construction, it is treated as normal. The ...

When investors evaluate an industrial property, they typically see one rent figure attached to one building. The yard – the paved or unpaved land surrounding that building – gets bundled into the deal as though it were incidental. At firms specializing in industrial outdoor storage, analysts argue this is a mispricing. The land itself generates ...

National headlines suggest property insurance is collapsing everywhere. Coverage is shrinking, premiums are skyrocketing, and owners are getting squeezed. According to Andrew Kowalske, Chief Product Officer at Blitz Insurance, the picture is more specific. Most markets are moving in a direction that favors property owners right now. Kowalske’s perspective comes from the excess and surplus ...

Investors who purchased Cleveland apartment buildings in 2021 or 2022 with 3% mortgages and top-of-market pricing now face a sale price gap they cannot close. Mortgage rates sit in the six-and-a-half-percent range, which means buyers today need higher cap rates to make the numbers work, and higher cap rates mean lower prices. Owners who stretched ...