Steve Marcinuk

The narrative forming around North Jersey’s rental market is that it’s softening. By at least one measure, that’s accurate: leasing teams are working harder, showing more units, fielding more inquiries per signed lease, and spending significantly more on marketing than they did three years ago. But the actual rents tenants are paying have held up ...

Compliance has become the defining pressure in UK facilities management, and confidence in meeting it is falling. In SFG20’s State of Facilities Management 2026 Report, a survey of nearly 200 built-environment professionals found that 72% named improving compliance and safety as their top priority. Only 54% were confident their organization could achieve it, a nine-point ...

In most real estate markets, transaction volume tracks interest rates, job growth, and inventory. In Evergreen, Colorado – a mountain community roughly 30 minutes west of Denver, sitting between 7,500 and 8,500 feet in elevation – the pattern is different. Most buyers and sellers are acting on personal circumstances, not market timing, according to Jillian ...

Most discussions of farmland values center on crop yields, commodity prices, and interest rates. In the dairy country of western Wisconsin, a different buyer is driving the market: the recreational hunter. Whitetail deer hunters have pushed per-acre prices beyond what agricultural economics alone would justify, creating a land market where habitat quality, trail camera history, ...

A year ago, newer private lending fund managers were writing offering memorandums with relatively loose language. Today, those same documents read differently, stricter concentration limits, double-underwriting requirements, and pledges of conservative asset allocation that would have seemed unnecessary in a more optimistic climate, according to Scott Ward, owner of The Ward Company and its subsidiaries, ...

Across the UK rental sector, operating costs are climbing faster than revenues. For operators managing student housing and build-to-rent portfolios, the math is straightforward: if you cannot grow the top line fast enough, you have to shrink the cost base. That pressure is reshaping how properties are staffed, what technology they run on, and where ...

Multifamily sponsors who underwrote three-to-five-year holds are refinancing and extending rather than selling into a market that won’t deliver the exits they projected. Lenders have largely gone along. Through 2024 and 2025, modifying and extending loans to push maturities out was the default response to the refinancing squeeze, and many of those extended loans are ...

A county of 30,000 residents doesn’t typically land distribution centers from AutoZone, Amazon, FedEx, and Target in the span of a few years. But New Kent County, Virginia – a largely rural stretch between Richmond and Williamsburg along Interstate 64 – has done exactly that, and the infrastructure demands are catching up fast. A $104 ...

A lender paying a full-time processor $30,000 to $40,000 a year bears that cost whether the company closes five loans in a month or fifty. That math has become harder to justify industry-wide. According to Mortgage Bankers Association data, average production profit per loan sat at just 25 basis points in the second quarter of ...

The common complaint about building permits is that local governments move too slowly. Developers blame red tape. Homeowners blame indifferent city staff. But a growing number of state legislatures have concluded the deeper issue isn’t attitude; it’s information: the data planners need to answer a simple zoning question – what can I build here? – ...

The standard pitch to recruit a real estate agent in 2026 leads with technology, a better CRM, an AI-powered lead tool, a slicker transaction platform. But agents who have survived three years of litigation upheaval, commission compression, rate volatility, and a wave of major brokerage consolidations are asking for something else. They don’t need another ...

The Opportunity Zone program was designed to channel investment into operating businesses, tech startups, healthcare companies, service firms that could locate anywhere, including underinvested communities. Instead, more than 95% of the capital has flowed into real estate development. That imbalance is now a defining feature of the program, and the recently enacted 2.0 legislation is ...

The conventional wisdom on office real estate has settled into a familiar narrative: remote work gutted demand, lenders want out, and the asset class is in long-term decline. But transaction data from at least one active Southeast brokerage tells a different story, one where the buyers showing up are not institutional investors bottom-fishing for distressed ...

For the past several years, private equity has poured into HVAC, plumbing, and electrical businesses, pushing valuations higher and making the trades one of the most active corners of the lower middle market. That wave has not receded, but it has changed character. Buyers are still showing up, just not for every business that comes ...

The conventional image of coworking expansion involves planting flags in as many cities as possible. For operators managing multiple flexible workspace locations across Florida, Texas, and Georgia, the math points in a different direction: density within a market matters more than breadth across markets. Kevin Priddy leads Priddy Spaces, a holding company operating 12 coworking ...