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Rudi Davis
10 Feb 2026

Sports facilities can reshape urban neighborhoods in ways that conventional development rarely achieves, according to Kevin Kelley, shareholder at Greenberg Traurig and veteran advisor on sports facility deals since the launch of Coors Field for the Colorado Rockies in the 1990s. Yet the long-term impact of these projects is often difficult for communities to grasp ...

Rudi Davis
09 Feb 2026

Recent changes in Manhattan’s political and tax environment are fueling a visible exodus of wealthy individuals from New York City, with many relocating to northern New Jersey and other lower-tax states. According to Christian Di Stasio at Christian Di Stasio Group, a broker associate specializing in luxury transactions up to $15 million, this migration is ...

Rudi Davis
09 Feb 2026

Falling mortgage rates are driving renewed activity in northern New Jersey’s real estate market, not only among homeowners seeking lower payments but also among investors reallocating funds from equities into property as rates stabilize. A Shift from Constraint to Catalyst After a period of high mortgage rates that slowed transaction volume and dampened confidence, the ...

Rudi Davis
09 Feb 2026

Montreal’s residential market recorded 8.7% year-over-year price growth, even as Toronto and Vancouver posted declines. At first glance, this suggests broad strength across Canada’s second-largest city. But Joëlle Bitar, a broker whose team manages nearly 100 active listings across Montreal and its suburbs, says that headline figure masks a sharp divide across property types. Bitar ...

Rudi Davis
08 Feb 2026

Florida’s housing market is showing a clear divide: condos are struggling with high inventory and falling prices, while single-family homes are holding or gaining value. Taylor Johnson, a sales associate with Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Florida Network Realty in St. Augustine, sees this split play out daily. “Our condo market is hurting. We have very high ...

Rudi Davis
08 Feb 2026

Traditional institutional lenders rarely underwrite loans below $10 million, leaving a significant gap in the mid-market hospitality sector. This gap creates opportunities for operators who understand how to use alternative capital structures to acquire and grow hotel portfolios. Blake Dailey, CEO of Stayvest, which has completed eight hotel acquisitions, says the challenge is built into ...

Rudi Davis
08 Feb 2026

For decades, real estate sales training has focused on aggressive closing techniques. Hard-sell tactics, pressure-based scripts, and forceful approaches have been the industry standard since the 1950s. But Bill Crespo, a 40-year real estate veteran and CEO of Path2PRO Coaching, argues that this approach is not just outdated but also actively undermines most agents’ success, ...

Rudi Davis
08 Feb 2026

South Florida’s residential market has shifted into a buyer’s market, but many sellers have yet to adjust their pricing expectations. Fiona Barone, a REALTOR® with eXp Realty who closed 98 units in the region in 2025, says sellers are still anchored to valuations set during the pandemic’s peak, resulting in longer listing times and stagnant ...

Rudi Davis
08 Feb 2026

New financing rules and soaring insurance costs are contributing to a steep downturn in South Florida’s resale condominium market, representing a departure from typical cycles and contributing to a valuation crisis that cuts across Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties. South Florida’s condominium market has seen a 27 percent drop in valuations, according to Fiona ...

Steve Marcinuk
07 Feb 2026

For decades, a retail investor with $50,000 could not access the development of a 50-story office tower in Manhattan. The minimum investment was typically $1 million or more, legal structures were highly complex, and regulatory barriers limited access to accredited investors with significant net worth. The outsized returns of real estate development, which often double ...

Steve Marcinuk
07 Feb 2026

Surging demand for data centers has created a new opportunity for industrial developers with access to what the market calls powered land — sites with large, immediately accessible electrical capacity that data center operators can’t easily find elsewhere. David Ebrahimzadeh, President and Founder of Corniche Capital, says the most attractive strategy isn’t to build and ...

Rudi Davis
07 Feb 2026

Doug Ressler, Manager of Business Intelligence at Yardi Matrix, reports that major real estate investment trusts (REITs) and other institutional investors are rapidly expanding their involvement in the U.S. housing market. Over the past seven years, these investors have moved well beyond traditional multifamily and single-family rentals, increasingly targeting manufactured housing and build-to-rent (BTR) communities ...

Rudi Davis
07 Feb 2026

The real estate industry often assumes that buyers can walk through vacant properties and imagine their future lives there. Fiorenza Bilak, Founder and CEO of Stage The Space, LLC, argues this assumption is fundamentally flawed. “Statistically, 83% of the entire world does not have imagination,” Bilak says. “When 83% of your potential buyers are walking ...

Rudi Davis
06 Feb 2026

New York State is changing its approach to housing affordability, shifting from direct price controls to removing barriers to new construction. According to Jared Antin, Executive Director at Brown Harris Stevens, this marks a significant departure from years of policy focused on regulating what landlords can charge, in favor of addressing the underlying housing shortage. ...