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Guides
How to track US real estate development the way our newsroom does, from primary public records, not press releases. Practical, evergreen, and cited.
- Deal trackingHow to track commercial real estate deal flow with public recordsA practical guide to tracking US commercial real estate deal flow from primary public records, permits, SEC filings, zoning agendas and deeds.
- Capital marketsReading SEC filings for real estate dealsHow to read SEC filings for real estate, which forms carry deal news, how to decode an 8-K material agreement, and what REIT filings reveal.
- FloridaTracking Florida real estate developmentHow to track Florida real estate development, the permit portals, zoning boards, property records and state policy that drive Miami and South Florida.
- Policy & zoningHow local land-use hearings work, and how to track themA guide to local land-use and zoning hearings: what planning boards decide, how approvals flow, and how to track agendas before projects break ground.
- Market dataDevelopment pipeline data: reading what's actually getting builtHow to read development pipeline data: the stages from proposed to delivered, the data behind each stage, and how to avoid counting vaporware.
- News sourcesThe best sources for US real estate development news: a field guideAn honest field guide to US real estate development news sources, national dailies, deal coverage, data terminals, and how to build your stack.
- Data centersHow data center site selection works: power, land, and speed to energizationWhy power availability and interconnection timelines now outweigh land in data center site selection, and the questions developers check first.
- Capital marketsThe multifamily maturity wall, explainedWhat the multifamily debt maturity wall is, why a wave of loans coming due matters for developers, and how distress becomes a sourcing opportunity.
- ConversionsHow office to residential conversions actually pencilWhat makes an office to residential conversion work: the buildings that convert, the math that has to close, and the incentives that tip a deal.
- Construction costsConstruction costs and tariffs: what actually moves a development budgetHow tariffs, materials, labor, and insurance drive construction costs, and what developers watch to keep a project's budget from breaking.
- IndustrialIndustrial development site selection, after the warehouse boomHow industrial and logistics site selection works now: power, labor, location, and the onshoring wave reshaping where warehouses and plants get built.
- Data centersThe best US markets for data center development, and what makes them workWhat separates a strong data center market from a weak one: power, land, regulation, and connectivity, and how to read where the next hubs form.
- ConversionsOffice conversion incentives: what cities offer and how to evaluate themThe incentives cities use to spur office-to-residential conversions, tax abatements, zoning, and permitting, and how to tell if they make a deal pencil.