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Transforming Emptying Houses of Worship
OVERVIEW What declining department stores were to our municipalities in the late 20th and early 21st century, emptying houses of worship are today, only the challenges are more vexing. A tsunami...
Topic: Affordable Housing
Perspectives
Zombie Malls – Part 4: Bringing Dead Shopping Venues Back to Life Through Multifamily Development – Case Studies
Abstract: As more retail activity goes online with Ecommerce and given the fact that the U.S. is over retailed, mall owners/developers are looking for ways to revitalize and monetize their real...
Features The Jared Shlaes Prize
WINNER of The 2024 Jared Shlaes Prize: Build-to-Rent Homes: A Promising Solution to Chronic Housing Shortages
The below is a reprint of the article Build-to-Rent Homes: A Promising Solution to Chronic Housing Shortages, first published in July of 2023 and recently awarded The Jared Shlaes...
Perspectives
Zombie Malls – Part 3: Bringing Dead Shopping Venues Back to Life Through Multifamily Development – A Hypothetical
Abstract As more retail activity goes online with Ecommerce and given the fact that the U.S. is over retailed, mall owners/developers are looking for ways to revitalize and monetize their real...
Perspectives
Finding the Direction of Future Sales Prices In a Residential Market Analysis Using the Months-of-Supply Indicator
Abstract The Months-of-Supply market statistic combines indicators of residential demand and supply to determine market trends and their impact on future transaction prices. It is available from...
Features
The Future of Affordable Housing in the US: Global Solutions for a Local Problem
Introduction Amidst an ensuing cost of living crisis in many geographies, a higher for longer interest rate environment, and the sustained shocks of inflation resulting from the pandemic years and...
Perspectives
Why States Should Preempt Local Zoning to Create Affordable Housing
Housing shortages once mainly confined to the coasts have made landfall in places like Boise, Idaho, and Bozeman, Montana. According to Freddie Mac, the United States “is short 3.8 million housing...
Perspectives
Zombie Malls – Part 2: Bringing Dead Shopping Venues Back to Life Through Multifamily Development – Parking is the Key to Mall Multifamily Development
Abstract As more retail activity goes online with Ecommerce and given the fact that the U.S. is over retailed, mall owners/developers are looking for ways to revitalize and monetize their real...
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U.S. Housing – Major Sources for Analysis and Data
The health and trends of housing market in the U.S. is on the minds of most commercial real estate professionals, economists, and policy makers. For example, “housing affordability” has been on...
