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Avoiding the Entitlement Trap: Smarter Development Fee Strategies

Land

Avoiding the Entitlement Trap: Smarter Development Fee Strategies

Early-stage due diligence on fees, taxes, and districts is helping CFOs avoid costly surprises and protect margins in a high-cost, high-rate housing market.

Together with

LaunchDFA

Narrow Pathways: 7 Options Key Private Homebuilders' Roadmap

Land

Narrow Pathways: 7 Options Key Private Homebuilders' Roadmap

A more challenging entitlement world with chronic undersupply likely means being at a margin disadvantage is not a question of merely accepting lower returns. It is the difference between buying and not buying land.

How Builders Can Accelerate The Pre-Construction Permit Process

Policy

How Builders Can Accelerate The Pre-Construction Permit Process

By surfacing municipal requirements and digitizing the permit process, Ivory Prize-winner PermitFlow saves applicants’ time, minimizes errors, and shortens municipal review cycles — resulting in a faster time to permit. That can lead to more attainable homes.

Zoning Single-Source-Of-Truth For 30K U.S. Local Jurisdictions

Policy

Zoning Single-Source-Of-Truth For 30K U.S. Local Jurisdictions

Our Trailblazers '23 special housing transformation series dives deep with Ivory Prize winner National Zoning Atlas' director Sara Bronin, a Professor and Director of the Legal Constructs Lab at Cornell University.

To Get Out Of Housing's Echo Chamber ... How About A Plan?

Land

To Get Out Of Housing's Echo Chamber ... How About A Plan?

It would be naïve to think there is an argument that will win over most of these folks. But we need to convince some and at least lessen the negative passion of a material proportion of the rest.

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Avoiding the Entitlement Trap: Smarter Development Fee Strategies

Land

Avoiding the Entitlement Trap: Smarter Development Fee Strategies

Early-stage due diligence on fees, taxes, and districts is helping CFOs avoid costly surprises and protect margins in a high-cost, high-rate housing market.

Together with

LaunchDFA

Narrow Pathways: 7 Options Key Private Homebuilders' Roadmap

Land

Narrow Pathways: 7 Options Key Private Homebuilders' Roadmap

A more challenging entitlement world with chronic undersupply likely means being at a margin disadvantage is not a question of merely accepting lower returns. It is the difference between buying and not buying land.

How Builders Can Accelerate The Pre-Construction Permit Process

Policy

How Builders Can Accelerate The Pre-Construction Permit Process

By surfacing municipal requirements and digitizing the permit process, Ivory Prize-winner PermitFlow saves applicants’ time, minimizes errors, and shortens municipal review cycles — resulting in a faster time to permit. That can lead to more attainable homes.

Zoning Single-Source-Of-Truth For 30K U.S. Local Jurisdictions

Policy

Zoning Single-Source-Of-Truth For 30K U.S. Local Jurisdictions

Our Trailblazers '23 special housing transformation series dives deep with Ivory Prize winner National Zoning Atlas' director Sara Bronin, a Professor and Director of the Legal Constructs Lab at Cornell University.

To Get Out Of Housing's Echo Chamber ... How About A Plan?

Land

To Get Out Of Housing's Echo Chamber ... How About A Plan?

It would be naïve to think there is an argument that will win over most of these folks. But we need to convince some and at least lessen the negative passion of a material proportion of the rest.

Entitlement fees

Avoiding the Entitlement Trap: Smarter Development Fee Strategies

Land 07.29.25

Avoiding the Entitlement Trap: Smarter Development Fee Strategies

Early-stage due diligence on fees, taxes, and districts is helping CFOs avoid costly surprises and protect margins in a high-cost, high-rate housing market.

Narrow Pathways: 7 Options Key Private Homebuilders' Roadmap

Land 05.28.24

Narrow Pathways: 7 Options Key Private Homebuilders' Roadmap

A more challenging entitlement world with chronic undersupply likely means being at a margin disadvantage is not a question of merely accepting lower returns. It is the difference between buying and not buying land.

How Builders Can Accelerate The Pre-Construction Permit Process

Policy 08.28.23

How Builders Can Accelerate The Pre-Construction Permit Process

By surfacing municipal requirements and digitizing the permit process, Ivory Prize-winner PermitFlow saves applicants’ time, minimizes errors, and shortens municipal review cycles — resulting in a faster time to permit. That can lead to more attainable homes.

Zoning Single-Source-Of-Truth For 30K U.S. Local Jurisdictions

Policy 06.27.23

Zoning Single-Source-Of-Truth For 30K U.S. Local Jurisdictions

Our Trailblazers '23 special housing transformation series dives deep with Ivory Prize winner National Zoning Atlas' director Sara Bronin, a Professor and Director of the Legal Constructs Lab at Cornell University.

To Get Out Of Housing's Echo Chamber ... How About A Plan?

Land 05.23.23

To Get Out Of Housing's Echo Chamber ... How About A Plan?

It would be naïve to think there is an argument that will win over most of these folks. But we need to convince some and at least lessen the negative passion of a material proportion of the rest.