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Alejandra Rodriguez
17 Jul 2026

Most conversations about Los Angeles real estate center on unaffordable coastal markets and residents leaving the state entirely. But not every buyer priced out of metro LA is heading to Texas or Arizona. A steady share is driving north, to the Antelope Valley, where homes between $450,000 and $650,000 sell within weeks and inventory sits ...

Steve Marcinuk
17 Jul 2026

Hawaii has almost no institutional experience with public-private partnerships. The state has completed, by one account, a single P3 in its history, a small apartment complex near the university. A planned P3 for a segment of Honolulu’s rail system was withdrawn during procurement. Now the state is attempting to execute what may be its most ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
17 Jul 2026

National housing data suggests a cooling market, but Monmouth County, New Jersey contradicts that narrative. Inventory sits at 2.7 months of supply – roughly half the five-to-six-month threshold that would indicate balance – and prices continue to climb despite mortgage rates near 6.5%, according to Anastasia Cafiero, a Realtor with Realty ONE Group Central who ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
16 Jul 2026

The assumption that higher interest rates have frozen buyers out of the market doesn’t hold up everywhere. In the San Antonio and Texas Hill Country corridor, transactions are happening, but on terms that favor patience and precision over urgency. Prices are declining month over month, inventory is stacking up, and sellers who haven’t adjusted their ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
16 Jul 2026

The accessory dwelling unit market has quietly moved from a niche housing concept to a more mainstream solution. Affordability pressures, an aging demographic, and a wave of supportive local policies are pushing more homeowners and investors to consider what a backyard structure can actually do for them. Peter Anadranistakis, Founder and CEO of OxygenHaus and ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
16 Jul 2026

Few real estate markets in the Northeast tell a more layered story than Newburgh, New York. Situated on the Hudson River about 90 minutes north of Manhattan, this small city of roughly 30,000 people has spent decades navigating the consequences of mid-20th century urban planning decisions that left entire neighborhoods hollowed out. Today, it sits ...

Steve Marcinuk
16 Jul 2026

Private capital is moving into commercial real estate at a pace that outstrips the research infrastructure most of these investors have access to. Institutional buyers have long relied on proprietary data, dedicated analyst teams, and relationships built over decades to understand a market down to the block level. A newer wave of private investors and ...

Steve Marcinuk
16 Jul 2026

The assumption that family offices are locked down and careful with security – given how much capital they manage – does not hold up once you look past the largest operations. Smaller family offices, particularly those managing one to three portfolio companies, often lack the cybersecurity maturity that outsiders assume they have, according to Vijaya ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
16 Jul 2026

A broken dishwasher seems simple enough. A tenant reports it, someone fixes it, life moves on. But between the initial request and the completed repair, a single work order can pass through dozens of hands, scheduling, compliance checks, site visits, invoicing, job sheet documentation, each step adding cost, time, and administrative friction that building owners ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
16 Jul 2026

The narrative around Seattle’s high-end real estate market has taken a particular shape in recent months: wealthy residents are leaving, the market is cooling, and the Pacific Northwest’s appeal is fading. On the ground, the picture depends on which price tier you’re watching. Below roughly $4 to $5 million, well-positioned homes still draw multiple offers, ...

Steve Marcinuk
15 Jul 2026

The mortgage industry has long been one of the more paper-heavy corners of real estate. Loan applications move through multiple hands, documents get reviewed and re-reviewed, and data gets entered manually into systems that have been around for decades. Industry research puts the average closing timeline at over 40 days per loan. A growing number ...

Steve Marcinuk
14 Jul 2026

Commercial real estate development in Southern California is widely regarded as one of the most difficult operating environments in the country. Strict zoning regulations, complex entitlement processes, and competitive land markets create barriers that stop many developers before they ever break ground. Yet for Southern California Equity, those same obstacles have become the foundation of ...