Author name: Ricky Vasquez

Builders can no longer rely on rising home prices to offset unexpected costs, scheduled delays and development inefficiencies. After years of home price appreciation that helped cushion operational inefficiencies, today’s market demands greater precision. Builder confidence fell to 37 in May, according to the NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index, marking the 25th consecutive month below […]

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) is again pressing Congress to ease the cost of condominium safety repairs. This time, she has teamed with Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-Fla.) to revive a bill that stalled in committee three years ago. They have reintroduced the Making Condos Safer and Affordable Act around the anniversary of the deadly

A Bloomberg op-ed published this week makes a provocative argument: houses are no longer the best place for your money. I’m not here to defend housing. I’m here to defend fact and data over narrative — and in this case, the analysis doesn’t hold up.  I promise I’m not here to pick apart another publication’s