CategoryConstruction/Design

Peanut Butter In Your Chocolate: Commercial Office Mortgage Distress For Office To Resi Conversions

2025 Is Peak Maturity For Commercial Office Mortgages But Subject To "Amend & Extend" Office To Apartment Conversions Are Booming, Bringing Longterm Better News To Tenants Many Of The Cities With Heighten Conversion Activity Also Have Heighten Commercial Office Duress We continue to hear about a commercial office recovery, but that misleading it is coming from commercial leasing brokers which...

Let’s Rethink Housing Construction In Areas Prone To Wildfires

Home Construction Materials, Methods, And Codes Need To Be Rethought NOW Enabling Faster Home Permitting In LA Top Priority, Already A Notoriously Slow Process Homeowners Are Not Going To Leave LA If Federal, State, And Local Government Provide Actual Solutions Armchair experts are placing a lot of weight on government mismanagement as the reason for the LA wildfires. I'm skeptical about that...

Tiny Homes Are Affordable When The Land Is Free

Tiny Home Solutions Gloss Over The Need For Land Land Appreciates While Buildings Depreciate Amazon Is Taking Over The Tiny Home Torch From Sears When we think about the genre of tiny homes, as shown on television reality shows, no one speaks about the cost of land. Housing is experiencing a perfect storm. The median U.S. existing home costs $407,200. Rocket Mortgage suggests that tiny homes cost...

Yes, Flipping Remains A Thing

• One Of Thirteen Sales, Or 7.5% Of All Sales, Is A Flip
• A Flip Is Defined As A Single Family Or Condo That Resells In One Year
• Flips Provide A Necessary Service To Maintain The Existing Housing Stock

Wednesday Was Prince Spaghetti Day Until Everyone Stopped Using Their Dining Room

Somehow we got into the habit of eating at our desks at the office and watching television in the den over time. Postpandemic, there was a need to allocate more space to a home office and even a second home office. A separate dining room was relegated to infrequent holiday gettogethers or used as a home office rather than daily meals. I love our formal (it has a wall) dining room but I'd rather...