Steve Marcinuk

Some real estate investors make money without ever owning a house. They find a seller who needs to move fast, often willing to accept less than full market value in exchange for speed and certainty, get that seller to sign a contract, and then, before ever closing on the property themselves, sell that contract to ...

The construction industry has long treated small-scale site hazards – low steel pickets, exposed rebar ends, temporary fencing stakes – as problems you deal with after someone gets hurt. That pattern is reversing. Across residential and civil construction, safety spending is moving from reactive to preventative, with contractors budgeting for protective equipment before incidents force ...

The conversation around AI in real estate development has matured. Six years ago, the question was whether AI could do the job at all. Today, practitioners have moved past capability debates and toward a more practical concern: where exactly in the development process does AI actually perform better than a human with a spreadsheet and ...

The company has already published over 5,000 articles in collaboration with over 1,800 market experts across all 50 states, powered by a tech-forward approach to research and reporting. MIAMI, FL – July 28, 2026: KeyCrew Media, the expert-sourced real estate news network, today unveiled KeyCrew Local, a network of local real estate news sites and ...

The conventional narrative in mid-2026 is that elevated interest rates have frozen refinance activity. Loan officers repeat it to each other, and it shapes how they spend their days – focused almost exclusively on purchase business while assuming nobody wants to refinance at current rates. That narrative runs counter to a figure cited from recent ...

For years, multifamily operators measured success by how fast they could fill vacant units. New leases meant revenue. Turnover was a cost of doing business, and the machinery of apartment management – marketing, incentives, concession packages – was built around attracting new residents rather than keeping existing ones. That calculus is shifting. As inflation, high ...

For years, Texas dominated conversations about where manufacturers and data center operators should expand. But New Mexico has been climbing site selectors’ shortlists, where a combination of pro-business policy, available power, water access, and aggressive state incentives is pulling deals away from more established industrial markets. David Ebrahimzadeh, Founder & President of Corniche Capital, has ...

Most small commercial tenants in Baltimore sign their leases before ever speaking to a contractor. By the time they learn what their buildout will actually cost, the terms are already locked in. According to Evan Roberts, Managing Partner at Clipper Construction, a five-year-old commercial general contractor based in Baltimore’s Locust Point neighborhood, this sequencing problem ...

Every year in the United States, roughly 700,000 commercial construction projects come out of the ground, representing $1.6 trillion in domestic activity. Behind each project sits a bidding process that, despite the scale of capital involved, still operates largely through emails, spreadsheets, and phone calls. General contractors blast invitations to bid to tens of thousands ...

Most real estate developers assess property value in terms of ground-level access, street frontage, transit proximity, and walkability. But a growing number of established developers and landowners are evaluating their properties from a different direction: the sky above them. As electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft move closer to commercial deployment, whether a rooftop ...

For years, construction 3D printing has occupied a narrow lane: single-story demonstration homes, small community projects, and the occasional two-story residence. The technology has generated attention disproportionate to its actual output. That is starting to shift. Companies in the space are now targeting multi-story and high-rise construction, the building type that accounts for the majority ...

The conventional path to closing a commercial land deal in Texas, lender underwriting, extended documentation, months of back-and-forth, has become slow enough in the current rate environment that buyers and sellers are finding workarounds. In the Dallas-Fort Worth metro’s outlying counties, where land transactions for development, ranches, and commercial projects regularly run into six- and ...

Real estate development has a well-documented problem with time. Projects run over budget, timelines slip, and by the time a deal falls apart, months of work and capital have already been spent. What gets less attention is how much of that risk is introduced before a single shovel hits the ground, during the pre-development phase, ...

In most American office markets, an 8 to 9 percent vacancy rate would signal room to grow. In Reno, Nevada, it represents the tightest conditions the Class A segment has seen in over 20 years, according to Chad Clemetson, managing partner of NevDex Properties, and yet no one is breaking ground on new supply. Construction ...

An estimated 8 million recreational vehicles are on U.S. roads today, and a growing share of their owners have nowhere to put them when they’re not in use. The mismatch between RV ownership and available storage has been building for years, driven by increasingly restrictive HOA covenants and local zoning ordinances that limit what residents ...