The spare bedroom used to become a nursery, a home office, or a guest room. Increasingly, it’s becoming a podcast studio or a video set, a shift that reflects how content creation has ...
Cedar has long been the default choice for exterior wood applications in American residential construction. It’s available, familiar, and relatively affordable. But builders and archit...
The skilled-trade shortage in U.S. construction has persisted for years, but the industry’s response is taking a specific new form: developers are moving production into factories, and...
The common assumption about modular construction is that it exists to serve one purpose: cheap housing for cost-constrained developments. That framing is outdated. Modular systems are increa...
A new home that costs 12 to 18 percent more than a conventional wood-framed house sounds like a hard sell. But Neil Prakash, an architect working in mass timber construction in British Colum...
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...
Canada’s housing shortage has generated no shortage of proposed solutions, and prefabricated mass timber construction is among the most frequently cited. The logic is appealing: use do...
The construction and real estate industries have spent a decade trying to digitalize existing buildings, with poor results. Several startups worldwide have attempted to automate the creation...
The conversation around AI in real estate development has matured. Six years ago, the question was whether AI could do the job at all. Today, practitioners have moved past capability debates...
The Coachella Valley has long attracted second-home buyers seeking winter sun two hours from Los Angeles. But the market entering mid-2026 is sorting itself along a line that has little to d...
Most real estate developers assess property value in terms of ground-level access, street frontage, transit proximity, and walkability. But a growing number of established developers and lan...
For years, construction 3D printing has occupied a narrow lane: single-story demonstration homes, small community projects, and the occasional two-story residence. The technology has generat...
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...
Unincorporated land with minimal zoning restrictions, relatively affordable lots, and a creative culture that celebrates architectural experimentation, on paper, the Southern California high...
The narrative around Seattle’s high-end real estate market has taken a particular shape in recent months: wealthy residents are leaving, the market is cooling, and the Pacific Northwes...
