TBDResidential Development
Capital
Many Homebuilders Look At Build-To-Rent As A Safety Valve ... Is It?
Given a last-resort chance to keep the lights on, pay the banks, and eke out a livelihood – versus the alternative – most builders would do what they need to do to remain a going concern ... Of course, there are ifs.
Leadership
'23 And We: An Expectations Manifesto For Homebuilding
There's an expectation we could have of ourselves in 2023. That is to make a cohesive first principles project that breaks residential real estate's five chief challenges — together — into achievable steps, ones that could take four or seven years in all to complete.
Land
"Farm-To-Able:" New Roots Of Ground-Up New Neighborhoods
Meristem Communities partners Clayton Garrett and Scott Snodgrass bring a 'beginner's mind' -- no preconceptions -- to place- and human story-making in their new 235-acre agrihood community with an urban twist for 750 owner and renter residents near Houston.
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
Steps Toward Reform: Get Past The NIMBY Versus YIMBY War
Housing affordability – when it comes to working households' access to homes near where they work – comes down to the ground, its entitlement, and the first costs and carrying expense of getting title to the dirt.





Residential Development
Capital 01.04.23
Many Homebuilders Look At Build-To-Rent As A Safety Valve ... Is It?
Given a last-resort chance to keep the lights on, pay the banks, and eke out a livelihood – versus the alternative – most builders would do what they need to do to remain a going concern ... Of course, there are ifs.
Leadership 01.03.23
'23 And We: An Expectations Manifesto For Homebuilding
There's an expectation we could have of ourselves in 2023. That is to make a cohesive first principles project that breaks residential real estate's five chief challenges — together — into achievable steps, ones that could take four or seven years in all to complete.
Land 11.21.22
"Farm-To-Able:" New Roots Of Ground-Up New Neighborhoods
Meristem Communities partners Clayton Garrett and Scott Snodgrass bring a 'beginner's mind' -- no preconceptions -- to place- and human story-making in their new 235-acre agrihood community with an urban twist for 750 owner and renter residents near Houston.
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 11.10.22
Steps Toward Reform: Get Past The NIMBY Versus YIMBY War
Housing affordability – when it comes to working households' access to homes near where they work – comes down to the ground, its entitlement, and the first costs and carrying expense of getting title to the dirt.