Market Analysis & Policy

“We’re fully integrated. We manage, we lease, we acquire, probably three-quarters of our deals off market. We move quickly. We’re honest guys. We don’t retrade,”...

“Housing has become unaffordable, so people are now viewing renting as a positive alternative where you can save money and invest it elsewhere,” observes Rob Golfi, Team Leader a...

“We’re an Applied Research Center, and that means all our work is intended to inform practitioners making decisions about housing policy, investment, and strategies affecting nei...

When Scott Clark discusses housing, he’s careful about his terminology. The founder and CEO of The True Life Companies doesn’t talk about “affordable housing”—a phr...

“This program, together with 485x, will significantly reshape the landscape for the next decade,” says David Shamshovich, discussing the city’s newest housing incentives wi...

“The nature of the building has to change further,” says Tom Taylor, Vice-Chair at Colliers. “Particularly in e-commerce, but they changed in general as the logistics indus...

“I knew that business model—that hustle, push, force business model—wouldn’t inspire me, nor would it sustain me,” reflects Pam Blair, founder of YogaBug Real Estate in...

“I think it’s an evolution more than anything,” explains Josh Simon, Principal at CPG, reflecting on the changes reshaping Washington DC’s office market. “More ...

“We’re seeing renewed activity both on the buyer side and on the development side this year. There’s been a strong appetite for development projects and the market seems to...

“My early professional years were about absorbing every detail of the market,” says Brandon Charnas, co-founder of Current Real Estate Advisors, describing his career trajectory before l...

“Indianapolis has always had a strong local buyer group,” notes Cameron Benz, First Vice President with CBRE‘s Indianapolis-based Multifamily team, “but with older vi...

“I just wanted to be a millionaire. That was my main goal.” — Rob Golfi, founder of the Golfi Team, reflecting on the early ambitions that propelled him from General Motors fac...

“San Francisco appears have bounced off the bottom and is starting to come back,” says Brad Lagomarsino, Vice Chair of Multi-Family Investments at Colliers in San Francisco. Afte...

“Sustainability is not a scalable approach if it’s just about thoughts and feelings and the idea of being green,” says Joselyn Lai, Co-Founder and CEO of Bedrock Energy. &#...

In late 2019, as commercial real estate valuations peaked and most investors continued aggressive capital deployment, Real Capital Solutions (RCS) made an unexpected move. The firm began sys...