When a Phoenix, Arizona business owner does not like the numbers coming back from a bid, the instinct is often to go out and collect a few more. Mike Marden, a registered architect and licen...
Lenders lose money on small mortgages. That single economic fact prices out the buyers who can least afford to be priced out – not through bias, but through arithmetic that treats a $100,0...
Every time a home goes on the market in the United States, the listing data – price, photos, square footage, descriptions – enters a multiple listing service. From there, that data gets ...
You found the house. It is 10:30 on a Tuesday night; you are scrolling through listing photos on your phone, and you have three questions you want answered right now. You fill out a contact ...
In almost every industry where technology takes hold, prices eventually fall. Streaming made music cheaper. Digital distribution made books cheaper. Software automation made banking cheaper....
Automated valuation tools pull comparable sales data from nearby properties and produce confident estimates of what a house is worth. But in metros where housing stock spans more than a cent...
In hurricane-prone parts of the US, the case for 3D-printed housing rests less on speed or novelty than on what the walls are made of. Concrete homes printed by robots carry specific resilie...
Most property owners think of their buildings in terms of square footage on the ground. The walls, the floors, the parking lot – that is the asset. But aviation infrastructure advisors wor...
The wood-frame, stucco-clad homes that dominate Southern California residential construction burned by the thousands last year. Concrete does not burn. The technology that once made concrete...
Younger home buyers have more information at their fingertips than any generation before them. But in the Coachella Valley’s eastern communities, that information – particularly inst...
A broken dishwasher in a managed UK flat feels like a simple problem. Report it, someone fixes it, move on. But a single work order can touch dozens of people and cost hundreds of pounds bef...
A growing number of mortgage lenders are using artificial intelligence to read, extract, and enter data from loan application documents. If that makes you nervous, if you wonder whether a ma...
If you have ever watched an empty lot sit untouched for months, permit sign flapping in the wind, no workers in sight, and wondered what is taking so long, the answer may have less to do wit...
The commercial real estate industry spends significant effort tracking interest rates, cap rates, and construction costs. But a quieter threat carries greater long-term consequences: the mas...
Buyers are making offers on homes that don’t exist yet. Investors are committing capital to buildings before a shovel hits the ground. The technology making that possible is reshaping ...
