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Heather Hook
21 Apr 2026

When a self-managed HOA board shops for community association software, the first instinct is almost always the same: find the cheapest option that covers the basics. It makes sense. Board members are volunteers spending their neighbors’ dues. Cost sensitivity is baked into every decision. But industry experience suggests this approach creates a pattern that costs ...

Heather Hook
20 Apr 2026

The structural pressures reshaping real estate – brokerage-platform deals, AI-driven marketing tools, and shifting listing distribution models – are forcing independent boutique brokerages to make a choice: adapt proactively or react defensively. Courtney Poulos, founder and CEO of ACME Real Estate in Los Angeles, has made her decision. After 15 years building ACME as an ...

Heather Hook
20 Apr 2026

The Interface Student Housing Conference wrapped up in Austin, Texas, bringing together approximately 1,500 industry professionals for what Teddy Abdelmalek calls “the Super Bowl of student housing.” As Senior Vice President of Business Development at HH Red Stone, Abdelmalek compiled insights from 60 meetings over three days, capturing candid conversations from the conference floor about ...

Heather Hook
20 Apr 2026

The distressed real estate market in New York and New Jersey is producing some of the most complex financing situations in recent memory. Partner disputes, stalled construction projects, technical payment defaults, and foreclosure proceedings are landing on lenders’ desks at a rate that has left many institutional players stepping back entirely. For borrowers caught in ...

Heather Hook
16 Apr 2026

Empty nesters represent one of the most challenging segments in today’s residential real estate market – not because they lack purchasing power, but because their expectations often disconnect from what’s actually available. This gap is constraining housing inventory across suburban markets, creating a ripple effect that impacts buyers and sellers at every price point. The ...

Heather Hook
16 Apr 2026

The question companies ask economic developers has fundamentally changed. Twenty-five years ago, the first thing prospects wanted to know was simple: “How much money are you going to give me?” Today, that question rarely comes up first. Instead, companies lead with two different priorities: “How can you fill my workforce’s needs?” and “How fast can ...

Heather Hook
14 Apr 2026

The flexible workspace industry has long prioritized speed — speed to market, speed to scale, speed to the next city. But two months of operational data from a premium Holborn location suggest the industry may have its priorities backward. When professionals choose where to work in 2026, they are making decisions based on criteria that ...

Heather Hook
14 Apr 2026

A $548 billion global market is dominated by million-dollar projects. A Central Florida builder delivering the same principles under $350,000 just caught the attention of the NAHB. The wellness real estate market doubled in five years to reach $548 billion globally in 2024, according to the Global Wellness Institute, making it the fastest-growing sector in ...

Heather Hook
13 Apr 2026

Commercial real estate has survived every major technology wave of the past three decades largely unchanged. Listings moved from the newspaper to the internet. CRMs replaced Rolodexes. Data aggregators promised to centralize everything. And yet, in 2026, the average broker still juggles five or six disconnected systems before making a single phone call. Dan Mosher, ...

Heather Hook
13 Apr 2026

There is a version of professional due diligence that looks, on the surface, like everything is being done correctly. The architect has followed the local building code. The developer has signed off on the design. The project meets every statutory requirement. And yet, when the first-floor lobby floods following a heavy rainfall event, none of ...