Insights

Insurance Costs

Insurance costs have long been one factor in evaluating development sites and land uses, but rising climate risk and growing instability in insurance markets have elevated them into a front-end site selection and underwriting consideration.

Insights

CRE Capital Shift 

Commercial real estate investment activity remains well below the highs of the previous cycle, and capital markets conditions continue to challenge both buyers and sellers. Elevated borrowing costs, refinancing pressure, uneven property fundamentals and continued pricing uncertainty have kept many investors on the sidelines.

Insights Multifamily Housing

Manufactured Housing’s Real Bottleneck Isn’t Demand

For years, manufactured housing has been treated as a side conversation in American real estate. It’s too often reduced to outdated stereotypes, too rarely understood as a modern housing product, and almost never discussed with the urgency the affordability crisis now demands. That posture no longer fits the facts.

Manufactured housing is not a silver bullet. But it is one of the few scalable forms of unsubsidized homeownership still available at a price many households can realistically reach.

Industrial Insights Office Space Retail

Lease Length Isn’t the Only Conversation Anymore

For decades, commercial real estate leases followed a fairly predictable formula. Landlords sought long-term commitments that provided stable income, while tenants prioritized securing the space they needed to support future growth. Those priorities have not disappeared, but the leasing conversation has become more nuanced.

Today, many occupiers are looking beyond rent and square footage and placing greater emphasis on flexibility. In some cases, that means shorter lease terms. In others, it means negotiating options that provide room to adapt as business needs change.

Demand for smaller and more flexible spaces is growing across office, retail, and industrial properties as occupiers prioritize adaptability in an increasingly dynamic business environment.