Design

How to Scale a Fix and Flip Business Without Running Out of Cash at Closing

Scaling a fix and flip operation rarely stalls because of deal flow or market knowledge. It stalls because cash gets consumed at closing, transaction...

As Swiss Rents Climb, Shared Living Draws Working Professionals and Couples

Finding shared housing in European cities has never been straightforward, but the gap between supply and demand has grown sharply in recent years. In...

CRE Brokers Are Ditching Five-Tool Stacks for One Platform

For years, commercial real estate brokers have pieced together a fragmented stack of tools to do the basic work of their job. Comp research...

Buyers Are Using AI to Research Agents. Most Agents Aren’t Visible.

For most of the past decade, real estate agents looking to generate leads online had a fairly predictable playbook: build a presence on Zillow,...

What Replaces ESG When the Label Stops Being Enough

The ESG era is winding down. Politically retreating, commercially discredited, and increasingly abandoned by the institutional investors who championed it, environmental, social, and governance...

Construction’s Labor Shortage Is Pushing Contractors Toward Robots, Not to Cut Jobs, But to Fill Them

Younger tradespeople are choosing different careers, aging workers are leaving physically demanding roles, and contractors in some markets can’t staff projects through traditional hiring....

Why Self-Employed Borrowers Still Struggle to Get a Mortgage – and What’s Changing

You earn a good living. Your bank account reflects it. But when you sit down with a mortgage lender, suddenly your income doesn’t quite...

Apartment Buildings Are Replacing Unused Amenity Rooms With On-Demand Rental Kiosks

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,...