The construction and real estate industries have spent a decade trying to digitalize existing buildings, with poor results. Several startups worldwide have attempted to automate the creation of digital twins for the built environment, yet the vast majority of the world’s 2.4 billion buildings remain what the industry calls “dark assets,” structures with no usable ...
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 counties north of Manhattan, Rockland, Westchester, Orange, Putnam, and Dutchess in New York, plus Bergen and Passaic in New Jersey, function as a single interconnected housing market for buyers leaving the city. But what begins as a search within a 30-mile radius frequently stretches to 50 miles or more, driven by limited inventory and ...
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 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 ...
The Coachella Valley real estate market is no longer in the post-pandemic phase where nearly anything listed found a buyer. Inventory has risen from its historic lows, buyers have regained negotiating leverage, and sellers pricing based on what they spent rather than what the market supports are watching their listings sit. For the gated golf ...
Houston’s reputation as an affordable alternative to coastal metros has drawn steady relocation traffic for years. But buyers treating the region as a single market, scanning listings across zip codes as though pricing logic transfers cleanly from one neighborhood to the next, are making decisions without the granularity the city demands. The same house on ...
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 ...
Large hotel chains spent much of 2025 announcing AI initiatives. Independent hotels spent it testing them, and the independents are pulling ahead, according to Steve Carran, Co-Host & Head Writer at The Modern Hotelier, a podcast and media company covering hotel operations and technology. The gap isn’t about budget or engineering talent. It’s about approval ...
Home inspections exist to identify safety hazards, structural concerns, and mechanical failures that a buyer can’t detect without training. Across many markets, that purpose is being redefined, not by regulation or shifting housing conditions, but by short-form video content, often produced by inspectors themselves. The pattern shows up clearly in the Twin Cities, where Reuben ...
The roughly 500 MLS systems across North America hold something no competitor can easily replicate: a comprehensive, professionally verified database of properties for sale and rent, updated by the agents who listed them. That cooperative structure has been around for decades. What’s changing is who wants access to that data, and how. Large language models, ...
The land investment space has long been dominated by two extremes: speculative holds on raw acreage and full-scale horizontal development with entitlements, infrastructure, and vertical construction. Between those poles sits a less visible model, buying large rural tracts, subdividing them under existing by-right zoning provisions, and selling smaller parcels to retail buyers who want to ...
