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Land
Will 55+ Cohort Seek Future-Proof Retirement Relocation Choices?
Doubters as to how swiftly mobility and migration trends can pivot and course correct – powering new boom markets in geographies long considered backwater, tertiary markets at best – need only look at Spring 2020 through Spring 2022 as a "narrative-buster."
Policy
Confidence Or Not, Now's Time To Look At Challenge As Opportunity
As builder sentiment finds its floor, here's a longterm-ist look at where to focus.
Land
Will Real Estate Remap Value To Waterfront, Fire Zone Threats?
A longer tail of implied promise in property's value may begin to trigger land price adjustments, contract modifications, etc. Here's why.
Land
Managed Retreats, Maybe So, But, Not Where We Build
The impacts of natural hazards -- as destructive as they'd been -- have not seemed to alter land values and property development. Is a change coming?
Land
Drought Shifts Wildfire's Fault Lines Into No Man's Land Buys
Arguments pro and con on the risks of development, where and where not to develop, who's got which rights to do what, etc., are the matters of power, money, and politics. Meanwhile, there's a housing affordability crisis.





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Land 11.18.22
Will 55+ Cohort Seek Future-Proof Retirement Relocation Choices?
Doubters as to how swiftly mobility and migration trends can pivot and course correct – powering new boom markets in geographies long considered backwater, tertiary markets at best – need only look at Spring 2020 through Spring 2022 as a "narrative-buster."
Policy 10.18.22
Confidence Or Not, Now's Time To Look At Challenge As Opportunity
As builder sentiment finds its floor, here's a longterm-ist look at where to focus.
Land 09.24.21
Will Real Estate Remap Value To Waterfront, Fire Zone Threats?
A longer tail of implied promise in property's value may begin to trigger land price adjustments, contract modifications, etc. Here's why.
Land 07.19.21
Managed Retreats, Maybe So, But, Not Where We Build
The impacts of natural hazards -- as destructive as they'd been -- have not seemed to alter land values and property development. Is a change coming?
Land 06.14.21
Drought Shifts Wildfire's Fault Lines Into No Man's Land Buys
Arguments pro and con on the risks of development, where and where not to develop, who's got which rights to do what, etc., are the matters of power, money, and politics. Meanwhile, there's a housing affordability crisis.