Building Market Intelligence

The purpose of the Light is to highlight bright spots in the real estate market in the wake of a historic pandemic. Perhaps no other real estate asset class performed as well or garnered as much interest since COVID hit …

Companies spend huge dollars attracting and keeping clients—and this is certainly true for apartment owners. The operator who values customer retention should be asking, “Where is my tenant moving to and why?” Per Freddie Mac’s recent survey of renters, of …

During the last housing downturn, our national Consulting team helped restructure billions of dollars in bad debt. Since then, we have been busy using the same market feasibility and financial analysis skills to help builders, developers, and building product manufacturers …

The single-family rental (SFR) space has quickly quieted skeptics and scaled into an institutional asset class. Build-to-rent (B2R) is now playing an emerging role in the industry’s evolution. In less than a decade, Progress Residential, Tricon American Homes, Front Yard …

2017 is shaping up to be a big year for acquisitions. We have been very busy helping both buyers and sellers with their market due diligence and cash flow forecasting for multiple recapitalization, IPO, and M&A transactions that have already …

We have been diving deeper into the Building Product Manufacturer space of the past year in order to provide our clients with a broader picture of the overall housing market. It has become clearer to us that this space offers …

A lot-to-home-price ratio is one tool used by investors, builders, and developers to quickly estimate the value of finished lots and raw land. It is a useful “rule of thumb” calculation that should be done after property-specific cash flows have …