Author name: Ricky Vasquez

For over a century the Georgia-based brokerage Blanchard & Calhoun Real Estate Co. has continued to serve consumers in the Augusta area all while navigating recessions, record high interest rates, the rise of the internet, the COVID-19 pandemic housing market, the commission lawsuits and the current wave of massive consolidation hitting the housing industry. Tom […]

California has long been synonymous with high taxes, but new fights over who will pay them are exposing a sharper fault line. The state increasingly reaches for “tax the rich” tools to fund housing and social programs, while anti-tax forces try to constrain those same tools. California’s tax fight is unfolding under a national spotlight.

Harvest Capital, through its exclusive partnership with TPG Credit, closed a $600 million recapitalization and expansion facility for Metro Development Group, the companies announced Wednesday. The transaction, completed at the end of the first quarter of 2026, recapitalizes a portfolio of 10 master-planned communities in Florida and creates a dedicated capital platform to support Metro’s