Over the past two years, cities and states have passed roughly 250 zoning rule changes and nearly 180 state-level housing laws aimed at loosening the restrictions that once made it illegal to build more than one home on a lot. The stated goal is to chip away at the “missing middle,” the housing stock between ...
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Seattle has spent the past several years trying to make it easier to build an accessory dwelling unit. The city’s ADUniverse library of pre-approved backyard-cottage plans can cut permit review time to as little as two to six weeks, down from several months for a fully custom design, and the city has continued loosening zoning ...
Spokane’s residential market has settled into a pattern that rewards discipline and punishes nostalgia. Sellers who list based on what they remember from a few years ago – when homes drew multiple offers within days – are finding that the market has moved on without them, according to Kim Hagel-Barkley of The Barkley Group in ...
For months, publicly traded homebuilders like Lennar and Pulte have held an advantage over individual sellers in slower markets: the ability to offer buyers below-market mortgage rates. In Kitsap County, Washington – a military-anchored peninsula separated from Seattle by Puget Sound – a broker has adapted that mechanism for private resale listings, using rate lock ...
In some of Seattle’s most desirable neighborhoods, the person bidding against you for an older home is not another family. It is an investor who plans to tear the house down and build two or three townhomes in its place. Recent zoning changes in Seattle have made this strategy legal and profitable, according to Eric ...
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The luxury boutique hotel, opening fall 2026, uses mechanical parking to fold a full valet operation into limited mountain land. KETCHUM, Idaho — September 21, 2026 — KLAUS Multiparking America has brought mechanical parking to one of Sun Valley’s most anticipated hotel openings, completing the valet system at The Observatory, a Viceroy Resort, ahead of ...
When New York City’s City of Yes for Housing Opportunity eliminated parking mandates in December 2024, the policy applied to a defined zone: most of Manhattan below 96th Street, Long Island City, and parts of western Queens and Brooklyn. Outside that zone, across the rest of the five boroughs — the calculus facing developers didn’t ...
Off-campus student housing is one of the most parking-hungry residential categories being built today, and one of the least forgiving of a bad parking plan. Zoning still often expects near-universal car ownership among student residents, while site sizes near college campuses are frequently the tightest a developer will ever work with. That tension played out ...
When a developer buys an existing building and changes its use, the parking requirement almost never stays where it started. Municipal codes typically ask more of a residential conversion than they did of the office or retail use it’s replacing, and the developer is left holding a structure that was sized for a different set ...
Firm with a newly opened downtown Orlando office points to flat prices and building inventory as a repricing, not a collapse, heading into the late fall buying window ORLANDO, Fla. (Oct. 1, 2026) Dissonant Capital LLC, a vertically integrated real estate investment platform that recently opened an office in downtown Orlando, said today that the ...
As Vail Resorts reports a 12% drop in pass units and faces an activist proxy contest, the Kaufman & Company founder says whoever runs the mountains next has to solve for the people who work them LOS ANGELES (Oct., 2026) Daniel Kaufman, founder of the permanent capital holding company Kaufman & Company and an investor ...
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