Steve Marcinuk

Six years after the pandemic reshaped how and where people work, Chicago’s commercial interior construction market is showing clear signs of recovery. Downtown foot traffic is up, transit ridership is climbing, and building owners are once again investing in their spaces. For firms like Plan North Construction Services, a Chicago-based general contractor specializing in commercial ...

Finding shared housing in European cities has never been straightforward, but the gap between supply and demand has grown sharply in recent years. In Switzerland, as in many urban markets across the continent, the number of people searching for a room vastly outnumbers those offering one. For Safras Rawfal, who experienced this firsthand while studying ...

Military families relocating to the Tampa Bay area are increasingly bypassing neighborhoods near MacDill Air Force Base in favor of surrounding suburbs. The shift is driven by school quality, family-oriented communities, and lower prices per square foot. According to Oleg Shypitsyn, a Real Estate Advisor with LPT Realty’s Military Veteran Team, relocating buyers are evaluating ...

Northeast Florida has spent much of the past decade absorbing population growth, tourism pressure, and an aging building stock that increasingly needs attention. For smaller design firms operating in this environment, the challenge is less about chasing volume and more about finding the right clients at the right time. Open City Architecture, a boutique firm ...

For most investors, agriculture has long existed outside the boundaries of a typical portfolio. It’s an asset class that produces food for billions of people, yet for decades it remained largely inaccessible to anyone outside farming families or large institutional funds. That is gradually changing as platforms open the door to smaller private investors seeking ...

For most of the past decade, real estate agents looking to generate leads online had a fairly predictable playbook: build a presence on Zillow, run some Facebook ads, and hope referrals filled in the gaps. That model is losing effectiveness. As buyers and sellers increasingly turn to AI-powered tools like ChatGPT and Gemini before they ...

At $20,000 a week and up, a villa listing is never really the product. What’s actually being sold is certainty: that the pool is heated, the beach isn’t buried in seaweed, the generator works when the power grid doesn’t. That certainty is becoming harder to find as luxury travel grows, which is why more high-net-worth ...

Most real estate organizations do not have a crisis management plan. And of those that do, many have never tested it. That is the candid assessment of Edward Segal, a crisis management consultant, author, and Forbes Leadership Strategies Senior Contributor who spent more than a decade leading two major realtor associations in California. His observation ...

Commercial real estate development in the American West has entered a period of recalibration. After years of strong demand, rising construction costs, softening rents, and tighter equity markets have made new projects harder to justify. For developers who built their model around straightforward deals in favorable conditions, the current environment presents real challenges. For firms ...

The amenity arms race in multifamily housing has been well documented: rooftop lounges, golf simulators, co-working spaces. But a quieter change is also underway, one that has less to do with square footage and more to do with how residents actually live day to day. Companies like Tulu are betting that the next frontier in ...

The gap between what construction technology promises and what actually works on a job site has long frustrated the industry. Autonomous robots have been discussed as a solution to labor shortages and safety risks for years, but real-world deployment has lagged behind the conversation. Raise Robotics, a San Francisco-based company that builds autonomous mobile platforms ...

The debate around artificial intelligence in real estate has largely centered on whether agents will be replaced. But on the ground, the more immediate change is happening somewhere less dramatic: in the gap between when a lead comes in and when someone actually picks up the phone. That gap – often measured in hours or ...

Commercial construction across the Phoenix metro area remains steady, driven by population growth, corporate relocations, and an expanding base of small businesses looking to establish or grow their physical presence. But for many business owners navigating the tenant improvement process for the first time, the path from signed lease to open doors is rarely as ...

Retail real estate in Phoenix has moved past its old reputation as a secondary market. Population growth, business-friendly tax policy, and major infrastructure investment have collectively repositioned the metro area as a primary expansion target for national brands. Vacancy rates at quality centers hover around three to four percent, off-market deals are increasingly common, and ...

For most of the past decade, a reliable corner of commercial real estate ran almost on autopilot: buy a single-tenant property, sign a long lease with a national brand, and collect income with minimal involvement. That model depended on one thing staying true: cheap debt. It no longer is. Borrowing costs have roughly doubled since ...