For years, offsite and modular construction occupied a familiar position in housing conversations: promising in theory, unproven at scale, and haunted by high-profile failures from the last ...
Most homeowners replace a roof only when forced to, and the material they choose is usually whatever went on last time. But in regions where hurricanes, wildfires, and hailstorms have damage...
When a storm destroys a roof, the instinct is to replace it with the same material. The insurance check often covers exactly that: the same style, with the same vulnerability. But in regions...
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...
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 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...
For years, institutional real estate investors rode returns driven largely by capital markets activity. When interest rates were near zero, generating gains was relatively straightforward. T...
Northeast Florida has spent much of the past decade absorbing population growth, tourism pressure, and an aging building stock that increasingly needs attention. For smaller design firms ope...
Out-of-town buyers who purchased older barrier-island homes during the COVID boom are discovering that renovation costs and flood-compliance requirements make their properties nearly impossi...
The amenity arms race in multifamily housing has been well documented: rooftop lounges, golf simulators, co-working spaces. But a quieter change is also underway, one that has less to do wit...
Tucked into the rolling hills of Lake County, Clermont has grown from a small citrus town into one of Central Florida’s fastest-expanding communities. For real estate professionals wor...
The Central Florida housing market in mid-2026 looks meaningfully different from the pandemic-era frenzy that defined much of the early 2020s. Inventory is moving more steadily, out-of-state...
