Category: investing
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Gen Z Cities 2025: Where the Next Generation Is Choosing to Live and Work
As developers and investors, we spend a lot of time studying demand—where it’s forming, what it values, and how it’s evolving. In 2025, no demographic is shaping the housing and employment landscape more than Generation Z. Born between 1997 and 2012, they’re now entering their peak renting, working, and forming-households years. And they’re not moving…
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The Housing Market Is Cooling Fast. Are You Ready?
The U.S. housing market is entering a new phase — one defined by slowing momentum, shifting leverage, and sharper divides between markets, product types, and buyer profiles. After years of surging prices, fierce competition, and supply shortages, the balance is tilting. Builders, investors, and developers who adapt fastest will find opportunity. Those who don’t may…
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What Starbucks Closures Reveal About Neighborhood Health and Home Values
Starbucks has long been more than a coffee shop. It’s been a signal — a shorthand for convenience, affluence, and upward mobility. So when the company announces plans to shut down hundreds of stores across the U.S., it’s not just a business story. It’s a real estate story. And like it or not, no neighborhood…
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How Mass Timber Modular Construction Is Redefining Workforce Housing in America
When architect Peter Rose first toured a modular school in Germany built with cross-laminated timber (CLT), he ran his hand along a stair joint where two modules met. “With my eyes closed, I couldn’t feel the seam,” he recalled. That single moment changed everything. For Rose, modular construction was no longer just about cutting costs.…
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Beverly Hills’ $10 Billion Bet: One Beverly Hills Redefines Ultra-Luxury Living
Beverly Hills is no stranger to opulence. But even by California’s gold-plated standards, the city is about to test the upper limits of luxury with a $10 billion mega-development that’s reshaping its skyline and retail corridor. Welcome to One Beverly Hills — a 17.5-acre transformation at the gateway to Rodeo Drive. This is more than…
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Falling Mortgage Rates Could Unlock These 10 Housing Markets
Mortgage rates have been steadily trending lower over the last month, and the expectation is that they’ll hover in the low-6% range through the end of 2025. For buyers who have been sitting on the sidelines, that shift is meaningful. Lower rates open the door to more affordability, more options, and in some markets, a…
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Stagecoach Mountain Ranch Moves Forward: A Bold Vision for Routt County
The future of Stagecoach is starting to take shape. With Routt County’s Planning Department officially accepting Discovery Land Company’s applications, the formal review process for the Stagecoach Mountain Ranch development is now underway. This is a significant milestone for a project that will bring a world-class private ski resort, hundreds of homes, and meaningful community…
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Fed Gets Green Light for Interest Rate Cuts as Unemployment Rate Jumps to 4-Year High
The Federal Reserve is now staring down one of the clearest signals yet that rate cuts are coming — and soon. The August jobs report was a gut punch to those betting on a strong labor market, showing that unemployment ticked up to 4.3%, its highest level since October 2021. The U.S. economy added just…
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Stuck in Neutral: Why Housing Feels Frozen and What Could Thaw It
Labor Day is around the corner, and if you’re in real estate, you know it’s been a cruel summer. Buyers, sellers, and builders have all come into this season with expectations—most of them unmet. We’re living through what I’d call the Anna Karenina housing market: everyone’s unhappy, just in different ways. Buyers are boxed out…
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Fed Policy Signals a Shift: What It Means for Real Estate Developers and Investors
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s speech in Jackson Hole is sending a clear signal: the balance of risks is moving away from inflation and toward the labor market, opening the door for a September rate cut. Markets reacted instantly—bond yields dropped, equities jumped, and mortgage rates touched a 10-month low of 6.58%. For those of…
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