Most second-home owners believe their property is fine when they are away. They have smart locks, a Nest thermostat, maybe a security camera pointed at the front door. What they often do not have is a person who physically walks through the home on a regular schedule and knows what to look for. According to ...
The advanced air mobility sector spent years treating aircraft certification as its central challenge. While Archer’s timeline may slip to 2028, Joby appears to be progressing faster and is targeting certification by late 2026. But according to Lisa Wright, founder of Landings and a real estate professional building a vertiport network across rural North America, ...
Most buyers moving from New York to Dallas expect to choose between two things: a neighborhood that feels like a real place to live, or reasonable proximity to the city. What they do not expect is to find both within 10 minutes of downtown. That surprise is something Rhoni Golden hears about constantly. As co-founder ...
Most active real estate investors treat origination fees as a fixed cost of doing business. Each deal, another percentage of the loan amount leaves at closing. But homebldr, a technology-driven investment financing platform, has launched a product with no real equivalent in the market: a financing subscription that eliminates homebldr origination fees entirely for 12 ...
The standard measure most agents use to read a real estate market looks backward. Absorption rate – closed sales divided by active inventory – tells you what happened over the past six months. In a market moving as fast as Maplewood, NJ, that number is already stale by the time it lands. For nearly 17 ...
There is a version of commercial real estate prospecting that takes days. Research a target property, identify the LLC, track down the individual behind it, find a phone number, find an email, then write an outreach message tailored to that specific owner and asset. Multiply that by twenty properties and you are looking at a ...
The ESG era is winding down. Politically retreating, commercially discredited, and increasingly abandoned by the institutional investors who championed it, environmental, social, and governance investing has left behind a vacuum and a lesson. The vacuum is a real opportunity. The lesson is harder to sit with: impact language without impact infrastructure does not work, and ...
BOCA RATON, FL – June 29, 2026 – Builders Update, one of North America’s leading providers of new construction inventory data, has officially joined the GDX – Global Data Exchange network. The partnership gives builders access to an international audience of real estate professionals, MLSs, and investors – expanding the reach of new construction inventory ...
Asset managers are financial experts. They run forecasts, analyze NOI, manage CapEx budgets, and answer to investors. But according to Bill Douglas, CEO of OpticWise, there’s a growing problem hiding in plain sight: the data they use to make decisions is often incomplete, delayed, and filtered before it ever reaches them. “Asset managers are financial ...
Austin’s return to a more balanced housing market has made buyers less willing to overlook dated interiors. In Mueller, where townhomes with limited natural light make up a significant share of inventory, sellers who skip inexpensive cosmetic improvements are sitting on the market longer, fielding concession requests, or both. The Market That Changed What Buyers ...
A three-day investment summit in Panama City revealed that American investors considering international real estate aren’t pursuing a single strategy. Multiple development approaches across different geographic zones and price points appeal to fundamentally different investor profiles – and all are finding traction simultaneously. The Invest Panama Summit (May 28-30, 2026) brought twelve investors from across ...
Investors evaluating secondary and tertiary Midwest markets for multifamily capital deployment tend to screen on population size first. By that measure, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, with a metro population of approximately 300,000, typically does not make the cut. What that screen misses is a market that has produced consistent rent growth for four decades, near-zero ...
Most renters in Little Rock are waiting for mortgage rates to drop before they consider buying. What they are not calculating is what that wait is actually costing them every month. Jerry Larkowski, Managing Broker at ESQ. Realty Group, LLC in Little Rock, is a dual-licensed attorney and broker who works with both first-time buyers ...
For thirty years, Mike Simon worked inside the real estate services industry. He watched title reps, loan officers, and insurance professionals buy one data platform after another, load CRMs with historical MLS transactions and agent histories, and then mostly ignore them. Not because the data was bad. Because data, on its own, does not tell ...
