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San Diego City Council Approves Landmark Growth Plans San Diego’s City Council has approved ambitious growth plans for Hillcrest and University City, aimed at doubling the populations of these neighborhoods and transforming their urban landscape with high-rise buildings and enhanced transit access. These plans are critical in addressing the local housing crisis by encouraging higher-density development. Aerial view of…
San Diego City Council Approves Landmark Growth Plans San Diego’s City Council has approved ambitious growth plans for Hillcrest and University City, aimed at doubling the populations of these neighborhoods and transforming their urban landscape with high-rise buildings and enhanced transit access. These plans are critical in addressing the local housing crisis by encouraging higher-density development. Aerial view of…
Introduction As the world focuses on medical and biological innovation during the COVID 19 pandemic, San Diego commercial real estate investors and developers will find it hard to ignore…
Introduction Hedging interest rates should be top-of-mind for anyone engaged in financing long term, capital intensive, illiquid assets like real estate. With rates at historical lows, many are skeptical…
Given resilient apartment fundamentals, current monetary policy, and perceived risk in other asset and primary markets, multifamily development opportunities in supply-constrained and relatively affordable secondary markets are better positioned…
Development is hard, very hard. Just ask our clients. So is predicting what your project is worth after it is completed and what the returns will look like. Here…
It is well known that California’s attractive environment supports a high standard of living and ample demand for housing. What should be more well-known, however, is how California’s environmental…
Shorting a public stock is easy. Shorting a private company… well, not so much. If shorting was easy, here’s my take on why making a bet against…
In Part 1: National Housing Trends, our recap of the past decade indicated that the United States continues to experience a large housing shortage since household construction fails to…
Headwinds for Apartment Development Fident has been fortunate to work with many capable multifamily developers throughout the western United States. As we enter 2018, nine years into the current…
At a macro level, the U.S economy is on a hot streak. Now into month 100 of the current economic expansion (the 3rd largest in recorded U.S. History), the…
Commercial property investors, and their unique cousin, the developer, often get to (or start at) a point where real estate investment halts without the infusion of additional risk capital….
I’ve come to understand that a principled commitment to some vital business concepts provides substantial leverage and a competitive edge. Optionality, and its special relative free optionality, is one…
At times, there are changes in our great nation’s strategic planning that can have massive implications for the local economy that go largely unnoticed until they play out. At…
