Perspectives

“A big chunk of my borrowers are self-employed. They just do not fit the banker box because of how they report their income or manage their finances,” says Geoff Ball, president of HD Le...

Industry veteran Lucas Piper, owner of Five Star Vacation Home Rentals in Austin, identifies ongoing property maintenance, rather than acquisition strategy or financing, as the main reason m...

Rising interest rates have fundamentally changed real estate investment in Indianapolis, dividing investors into two categories based on access to capital. Donna Kreps, President of Resident...

National media outlets have recently labeled Indianapolis the “second hardest housing market for 2025,” but the region’s largest brokerage, F.C. Tucker Company, reports a sharply diffe...

Jonathan Miller, President and CEO of Miller Samuel Inc., argues that the Federal Reserve’s pandemic-era policy of prolonged low interest rates created a housing inventory crisis that pers...

A Miami broker’s close tracking of Little River’s development cycle highlights a clear pattern: institutional investors consistently hold back from transitional neighborhoods until a sig...

Upstate South Carolina’s commercial real estate market is facing a critical shortage of vacant land, according to Maggie Steck, broker in charge at Freedom Commercial. Steck, who has speci...

The commercial real estate brokerage industry relies on a flawed agent development model, according to Jamie Maniscalco, President and Managing Broker at The Alpha Commercial in Miami. Manis...

Venture capital and engineering firms are redirecting resources to data infrastructure, sidelining traditional office and retail projects across Texas, according to industry veteran Sergio G...

The key tool real estate agents have used for decades to determine accurate home prices no longer works in Omaha, according to one of Nebraska’s highest-producing agents. The result is...

Restaurant operators expanding into unfamiliar markets routinely misjudge neighborhood dynamics, resulting in poor location choices that undermine otherwise promising ventures, according to ...

RAL Companies president Spencer Levine says that avoiding trend-driven design is now a critical survival strategy for developers, as project timelines grow longer and market cycles become le...

New York City’s property tax system, in place since 1981, is facing growing pressure to be overhauled. David Wilkes, a partner at Cullen and Dykman, warns that the system’s days in i...

Silicon Valley’s luxury real estate market has split into sharply defined tiers, according to Chris Iverson, a realtor at Golden Gate Sotheby’s International Realty. Ultra-luxury homes a...

Silicon Valley’s ability to attract top talent is being undermined by the region’s extreme housing costs, which often derail recruitment efforts for senior executives before negotiations...