Steve Marcinuk

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 ...

New Orleans doesn’t have much room to grow outward. Surrounded by water and constrained by geography, the metro can’t absorb demand the way Houston or Phoenix can through suburban expansion. That physical limitation shapes nearly everything about how the market behaves, from where prices move to which neighborhoods attract new interest. It also means that ...

In most housing markets, rising mortgage rates hit the top of the price ladder hardest. In the East Bay suburbs east of San Francisco, the pattern has reversed. Homes priced above $3 million are moving faster than those below $2 million – a dynamic shaped by Silicon Valley wealth and a deep base of high-earning ...

The industrial real estate market across the western United States has absorbed a wave of post-pandemic construction, but not evenly. Large-format warehouses and distribution buildings drove both headline capital flows and elevated vacancy in markets from Seattle to Phoenix. One segment, however, has been largely absent from the construction pipeline: small and mid-bay multi-tenant industrial ...

Developers and operators across the U.S. have historically treated interior design as one of the last line items in a project budget, something applied after the structural and financial decisions were already made. That hierarchy is under pressure. Construction financing has gotten more expensive: 30-year construction loan rates have hovered near 6.5 percent through 2026, ...

North Carolina’s Research Triangle has ranked among the country’s top relocation destinations for decades, but growth pushing northward into Franklin County, now the second-fastest-growing of the state’s 100 counties, is reshaping the luxury housing market in this part of the state. The buyers arriving are not shopping for production homes in master-planned communities. They are ...

The towns wedged between Newark and Jersey City – Kearny, North Arlington, Harrison, Belleville, don’t generate the same national attention as their larger neighbors. But for buyers priced out of New York City and looking for a short commute via PATH train, bus, or turnpike, this cluster of communities has become a landing zone. The ...

In a metro area long defined by the stability of federal employment, the Washington, D.C. real estate market is splitting along lines that track closely with buyer mobility. Single-family homes in the District’s upper northwest neighborhoods are still selling quickly. Condos in historically strong areas like Dupont Circle and Logan Circle are sitting. And roughly ...