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In addition to helping clients make the best decisions about real estate investment, repositioning, planning, and development, RCLCO strategists strive to answer their own questions about market trends via ever-evolving, analytically-based research. Below are published issues of The Advisory - always internally crafted, each report is researched and written by a group of RCLCO Managing Directors, Vice Presidents, and Associates. Sign up to receive new reports by email here.

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June 23, 2022
Real Estate Market Sentiment Dips into Recessionary Zone Amid Economic Uncertain...
Real Estate Cycle Strategic Planning
RCLCO’s Real Estate Market Sentiment Survey has tracked confidence in U.S. real estate market conditions for the past 10 years. The overall index took a dramatic dive in Mid...
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May 9, 2022
The Affordable Housing Asset Class
Affordable Housing
An update to work completed with the Terwilliger Center for Housing at ULI, this report presents an ...
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April 29, 2022
Forecast: Positive for U.S. Real Estate Despite Higher Infla...
Real Estate Market Trends Strategic Planning
Real estate economists predict solid performance by U.S. property markets over the next three years,...
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March 10, 2022
Explore the 2021 Second-Home Consumer Research Survey Result...
Second Homes Consumer Insights Resort Vacation Homes
Nearly two years into the Covid-19 pandemic, we have seen exceptionally strong performance in the se...
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February 8, 2022
Financing Mechanisms: The Top-Selling MPCs of Year-End 2021
For-Sale Housing Master-Planned Communities
How are master-planned communities financing and constructing public infrastructure? RCLCO has teame...
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February 1, 2022
Single-Family Residential Market Outlook
Master-Planned Communities Single-Family Housing
This year has the potential for housing markets to experience a less tumultuous year as compared to ...
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January 21, 2022
Despite a Slight Decline, Sentiment Regarding the Real Estat...
Real Estate Cycle Strategic Planning
RCLCO’s Real Estate Market Sentiment Survey has tracked confidence in U.S. real estate market cond...
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January 18, 2022
2021 Top Markets for STEM Job Growth
STEM Demographic Trends
Not coincidentally, the top STEM market areas include the 10 regions of the country which exhibit th...
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January 4, 2022
The Top-Selling Master-Planned Communities of 2021
Master-Planned Communities Top 50
A lack of new home inventory despite the consistent and growing demand for new homes was generally c...
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January 4, 2022
Interactive Map of the Top-Selling Master-Planned Communitie...
For-Sale Housing Master-Planned Communities
Following the release of RCLCO's report, The Top-Selling Master-Planned Communities of 2021, RCLCO h...
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December 7, 2021
Life Sciences: Tapping into Biotech
Institutional Investment
In this article, we examine the main attributes of success in life sciences real estate—and explo...
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November 9, 2021
Insights for the Commercial Real Estate Industry: Understand...
Strategic Planning Management Consulting
“Strategy” is among the most thrown around words in contemporary corporate America. It is an eas...
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October 25, 2021
2021 STEM Job Growth Index
STEM Demographic Trends Anchor Institution
In collaboration with RCLCO, partnering with CapRidge Partners, has produced the 5th annual STEM Job...
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August 24, 2021
Financing Mechanisms: The Top-Selling MPCs of Mid-Year 2021
For-Sale Housing Master-Planned Communities
How are master-planned communities financing and constructing public infrastructure? RCLCO has teame...
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August 5, 2021
Infographic: Which Olympic Games Host City Takes Gold?
Sports-Anchored Mixed-Use Development
RCLCO takes a look at real estate market performance in Olympic Games host cities & looks forward to...
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July 12, 2021
The Top-Selling Master-Planned Communities of Mid-Year 2021
Master-Planned Communities Top 50
While this year has thus far been emblematic of widespread MPC success and surging new home demand, ...
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June 28, 2021
The Changing Landscape of Housing: Low-Density Rentals
Single-Family Rentals Build-for-Rent Rental Housing
RCLCO recently worked with the ULI Terwilliger Center for Housing to prepare Low-Density Rental Hous...
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June 24, 2021
As the Nation Reopens: Mid-Year Sentiment Soars in the Real ...
Real Estate Cycle Strategic Planning
The results of RCLCO's Mid-2021 State of the Market Sentiment Survey reflect strong optimism as vacc...
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April 27, 2021
RCLCO’s Data Visualization Toolkit & Insights for the...
Real Estate Market Trends Interactive
A question that we often hear is “How is technology and big data impacting the real estate industr...
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March 17, 2021
Tracking Urban and Suburban Apartment Performance
Multifamily Urban Housing Trends
As we hit the first anniversary of COVID, the time feels right to dig in and understand what’s rea...
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February 25, 2021
Explore the 2020 Vacation and Second Home Consumer Research ...
Second Homes Consumer Insights Resort Vacation Homes
In early 2020 just before the Covid-19 outbreak, RCLCO conducted a national consumer preference surv...
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February 19, 2021
Financing Mechanisms: The Top-Selling MPCs of 2020
For-Sale Housing Master-Planned Communities
How are master-planned communities financing and constructing public infrastructure? RCLCO has teame...
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February 11, 2021
House Point-of-View: Q1 2021
Economic Outlook RCLCO Fund Advisors
The RCLCO House View includes a firm-wide consensus on key economic, capital market, and real estate...
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January 18, 2021
RCLCO’s Year-End 2020 Sentiment Survey: 2020 – See Ya, W...
Real Estate Cycle Economic Outlook
The U.S. economy and job markets have been in full-blown downturn mode over the past several months,...
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January 5, 2021
The Top-Selling Master-Planned Communities of 2020
Master-Planned Communities Top 50
In this issue of The Advisory we discuss the spectacular pace of new home sales among the top master...
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December 18, 2020
All I Want for Christmas is… a Vacation Home?
Second Homes Consumer Insights Vacation Homes
Based on current trends, RCLCO believes the single-family rental market will likely be undersupplied...
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November 25, 2020
2020, Year of the Suburbs: Flight from Urbanity or Accelerat...
Single-Family Rentals Suburban Housing
We examine some of the housing market influences of the coronavirus pandemic in the context of a str...
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October 8, 2020
Honey I Shrunk the Apartments: Average New Unit Size Decline...
Multifamily Urban Housing Trends
In the time period 2010-2014 average unit sizes decreased 7.6% compared to units delivered between 2...
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September 10, 2020
Which Grocery Store Anchor Drives the Strongest Apartment Pe...
Multifamily Urban Housing Trends Retail
Over the past two decades, the presence of Whole Foods in a neighborhood has functioned as an unmist...
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August 13, 2020
Growing Demand for Build-to-Rent Single Family Homes
Single-Family Rentals Build-for-Rent
Based on current trends, RCLCO believes the single-family rental market will likely be undersupplied...
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July 21, 2020
2020 STEM Job Growth Index
STEM Demographic Trends Anchor Institution
RCLCO, partnering with CapRidge Partners, has produced the 4th annual STEM Job Growth Index (“STEM...
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July 16, 2020
Jobs Across America: An Interactive Map of Employment Densit...
Demographic Trends
RCLCO is excited to announce the release of its new interactive data tool, “Jobs Across America,�...
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July 9, 2020
The Top-Selling Master-Planned Communities of Mid-Year 2020
Master-Planned Communities Top 50
For this mid-year 2020 report, we have surveyed MPCs throughout the country to establish the current...
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July 1, 2020
RCLCO’s Mid-Year 2020 Sentiment Survey: A Deep Plunge, but...
Real Estate Cycle Economic Downturn
The U.S. economy and job markets have been in full-blown downturn mode over the past several months,...
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June 10, 2020
The Housing Market Is Rebounding, but What Happens after Sti...
Economic Downturn Residential Housing
Many in the housing business are saying there has been a “V”-shaped recovery in home sales, as w...
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June 4, 2020
Family Renter Housing: A Response to the Changing Growth Dyn...
Single-Family Rentals Build-for-Rent Affordable Housing
As the millennial generation has come of age, the development community has largely responded by foc...
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June 2, 2020
The New Normal for Master-Planned Communities Sales, Marketi...
Disruptive Technology Master-Planned Communities
The technology transformations to MPC sales, marketing, and management preceded the current crisis, ...
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May 18, 2020
The Updated Neighborhood Atlas: Methodology
Urban Housing Trends Real Estate Market Trends
RCLCO developed a methodology to broadly categorize geographies in 100 of the largest metropolitan s...
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May 18, 2020
The Updated Neighborhood Atlas: A Roadmap to Growth Patterns...
Urban Housing Trends Real Estate Market Trends
More than three years ago, RCLCO unveiled a new framework for thinking about local housing markets. ...
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May 13, 2020
Is the Increase in MPC New Home Sales Sustainable?
COVID-19 Master-Planned Communities
Despite continuing concerns about how the pandemic will be resolved, along with concerns about job l...
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May 4, 2020
Southeast Florida’s Housing Market: Current Stresses and t...
COVID-19 Economic Downturn
RCLCO’s research suggests that opportunistic investors will find South Florida to be a prime regio...
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April 21, 2020
COVID-19 Real Estate Sentiment Survey and the Truncated V-Cu...
COVID-19 Sentiment Survey
As the current coronavirus pandemic reaches a (hopefully) peak in the U.S. and the extent of the dev...
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April 16, 2020
Financing Mechanisms: Top-Selling MPCs of 2019
For-Sale Housing Master-Planned Communities
How are master-planned communities financing and constructing public infrastructure? RCLCO has teame...
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April 7, 2020
How Housing Choices for Millennials Could Change in a Post-C...
Single-Family Rentals COVID-19
Just when we were starting to trumpet the return of the entry-level homebuyer, after years in which ...
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March 24, 2020
Coronavirus’ Impacts On Real Estate: Why You Need To Think...
COVID-19 Economic Downturn
The real estate industry is being clobbered by the coronavirus, and it’s going to get worse before...
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March 20, 2020
Cycle Planning in the Era of COVID-19
COVID-19 Economic Downturn
It is fairly clear now that the U.S. economy is headed for a recession. Now the question is not whet...
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March 9, 2020
Electric Vehicle Charging Station Strategy for Real Estate I...
Disruptive Technology
RCLCO examined the quickly-changing landscape of electric vehicles (EVs) and found an immediate and ...
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March 2, 2020
Impact of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Outbreak on U.S. Real E...
COVID-19 Economic Downturn
In this issue of the Advisory we look at the likely impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak on U.S. real es...
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January 30, 2020
Infographic: A Breakdown of the Top-Selling Communities in t...
infographic Master-Planned Communities
We profiled the five Top-Selling MPCs within each of the hottest MPC markets in the country. While n...
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January 23, 2020
Year-End 2019 Sentiment Survey Results: Survey Says—Anothe...
Real Estate Cycle Economic Downturn
Respondents to the YE 2019 Sentiment Survey have suggested that while most believe that most real es...
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January 3, 2020
The Top-Selling Master-Planned Communities of 2019 and “Be...
Master-Planned Communities Top 50
Every year since 1994, RCLCO has conducted a national survey identifying the top-selling MPCs throug...
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December 12, 2019
Consumer Acceptance of Density and Smaller Homes: An Opportu...
Attainable Housing Master-Planned Communities
Increasingly, community developers and builders are beginning to respond to the growing mismatch bet...
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November 22, 2019
Consumer Interest in Master-Planned Communities Exceeds Supp...
Consumer Insights Master-Planned Communities
RCLCO recently completed a major consumer research study across top active markets throughout the Un...
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November 14, 2019
The Two Types of Succession Plans and Why Your Company Needs...
Succession Planning Strategic Planning Management Consulting
By now, everyone is familiar with the statistic that 10,000 baby boomers will turn 65 every day for ...
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October 17, 2019
Financing Mechanisms: Top-Selling MPCs Mid-Year 2019
For-Sale Housing Master-Planned Communities
Every year since 1994, RCLCO has conducted a national survey identifying the top-selling MPCs throug...
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September 12, 2019
The Impact of the Next Recession on the Multifamily Market
Single-Family Rentals Real Estate Cycle Affordable Housing Economic Downturn
Given the many differences between the economic conditions and housing market of 2008 and today, few...
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September 5, 2019
Unlocking Potential: An Innovation Framework for the Real Es...
Industry Innovation Strategic Planning
The greatest commonality among real estate companies that are successfully innovating across is a sh...
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July 9, 2019
Top-Selling Master-Planned Communities Mid-Year 2019
Master-Planned Communities Top 50
Every year since 1994, RCLCO has conducted a national survey identifying the top-selling MPCs throug...
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July 2, 2019
Records Are Falling, but Don’t Drop Your Guard Just Yet…
Real Estate Cycle Strategic Planning
As indicated in the most recent RCLCO Sentiment Survey, real estate market participants have pulled ...
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June 20, 2019
RCLCO’s Mid-Year 2019 Sentiment Survey Results: Don’t St...
Real Estate Cycle Economic Downturn
Over the past few years, RCLCO Sentiment Surveys have indicated continued confidence in real estate ...
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May 30, 2019
Marketing to Baby Boomers One More Time
Baby Boomer Housing Residential Housing
RCLCO recently surveyed 55+ households that were seeking to move in the next two years to understand...
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May 2, 2019
Impact of the Next Recession on Residential Real Estate Mark...
Real Estate Cycle Economic Downturn
In this issue of the Advisory we address the vulnerability of for-sale housing markets to the next r...
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April 25, 2019
Attainable Housing: Challenges, Perceptions, and Solutions
Attainable Housing For-Sale Housing Affordable Housing
RCLCO recently worked with the ULI Terwilliger Center for Housing to prepare Attainable Housing: Cha...
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March 28, 2019
2018 Top-Selling MPCs: Infrastructure Financing Mechanisms
For-Sale Housing Master-Planned Communities
How are master-planned communities financing and constructing public infrastructure? RCLCO recently ...
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March 21, 2019
3 Rules of Data-Driven Decision-Making for Real Estate Compa...
Consumer Insights Strategic Planning
Fundamental to developing a strategy that leverages data effectively is recognizing the gradients of...
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March 14, 2019
Disruptive Demographics: Housing Production & Demograph...
Attainable Housing Consumer Insights Demographic Trends
In this new report we examine how housing production and demographic reality are sometimes moving in...
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February 28, 2019
New Opportunities for Medium-Density Residential
Attainable Housing For-Sale Housing Consumer Insights
We dug deeper into the results of our recent Housing and Community Preference Survey and interviewed...
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January 31, 2019
2019 STEM Job Growth Index
STEM Demographic Trends Institutional Investment Anchor Institution
RCLCO's 3rd Annual STEM Job Growth Index includes a number of familiar metro areas, but also a coupl...
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January 29, 2019
Building Opportunity: Mapping Gentrification and Investment ...
Real Estate Investing Strategic Planning
While regulations for opportunity zone investments have yet to be wholly finalized, real estate inve...
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January 22, 2019
Sentiment Survey 2018 Year-End: Downturn on the Horizon
Real Estate Cycle Strategic Planning
Our Real Estate Market Sentiment Index decreased since MY 2018 from 68.0 to 37.5, a much more dramat...
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January 22, 2019
The Opportunity is Now! Plan for a Market Evolution from a P...
Real Estate Cycle Real Estate Investing
Economic cycles are a reality and your cycle planning should reflect a hypothesis as to when it will...
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January 3, 2019
Top-Selling Master-Planned Communities of 2018
Master-Planned Communities Top 50
Every year since 1994, RCLCO has conducted a national survey identifying the top-selling MPCs throug...
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December 18, 2018
2018 Housing and Community Preference Survey
Second Homes For-Sale Housing Consumer Insights Community and Resort
The results of RCLCO’s 2018 Housing and Community Preference Survey are in and include insights on...
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October 18, 2018
Who Should Control Rent Control? Impacts of Prop 10 and Inte...
Attainable Housing Urban Housing Trends
This November, Californians will vote on Proposition 10, a ballot initiative that seeks to repeal th...
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September 21, 2018
Evaluating the Top-25 Most Active Markets: A Look at Single-...
Community and Resort Real Estate Market Trends
Find out which markets made the top of RCLCO’s Single-Family Housing Momentum Index.
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August 30, 2018
Ready for Changing Tides? How Real Estate Companies Can Prep...
Strategic Planning
The end of a declining cap rate era fundamentally changes the nature of the real estate industry and...
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July 6, 2018
Top-Selling Master-Planned Communities: Mid-Year 2018
Master-Planned Communities Top 50
Every year since 1994, RCLCO has conducted a national survey identifying the top-selling MPCs throug...
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June 28, 2018
RCLCO’s Mid-Year 2018 Sentiment Survey Results –...
Real Estate Cycle Real Estate Market Trends
RCLCO's outlook for positive, though moderating, operating and investment performance through the re...
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June 19, 2018
RCLCO Neighborhood Atlas: Urban & Suburban Neighborhood...
Urban Housing Trends Suburban Housing
Welcome to RCLCO's neighborhood atlas, a new, interactive visualization of U.S. suburban & urban...
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June 19, 2018
The New Geography of Urban America: An Interactive Mapping T...
Urban Housing Trends Real Estate Market Trends
Based on recent work with the ULI Terwilliger Center for Housing, RCLCO has expanded its original me...
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May 7, 2018
The RCLCO Foundation 50th Anniversary Paper Prize Winner: Ma...
Affordable Housing Real Estate Market Trends
The RCLCO Foundation 50th Anniversary Paper Prize Winner: Maximizing Public Sector Air Rights as an ...
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April 26, 2018
The Impact of Mobility on Apartment Rents
Urban Housing Trends Real Estate Market Trends
An important shift in how the real estate industry understands location and evaluates sites is the c...
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April 4, 2018
E-Sports Arenas: Are Video Games the Next Great Urban Entert...
esports Sports-Anchored Mixed-Use Development
As the e-sports market continues to expand, additional demand for e-sports arenas is likely, present...
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March 15, 2018
The Monte Carlo Simulation: Contemplating Risk in Real Estat...
Real Estate Investing Institutional
The real estate industry has historically lacked quantifiable assessments of risk as a tool to impro...
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March 2, 2018
Where Is the Homeownership Rate Headed? Examining the Implic...
For-Sale Housing Community and Resort Real Estate Market Trends
In this issue of The Advisory, we examine the prospect for growth in the U.S. homeownership rate and...
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February 15, 2018
A Whole New Ball Game: Reframing the Impact of Sports Venue...
Sports-Anchored Mixed-Use Development
Sporting events attract millions each year; venues that host these events are cultural and economic ...
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January 25, 2018
Have We Reached the Tipping Point?Sentiment Survey 2017 Part...
Real Estate Cycle Real Estate Trends Strategic Planning
RCLCO's outlook for generally positive, though moderating, operating and investment performance thro...
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January 18, 2018
Results Forecast an Extended Run for Real Estate Amidst Tax ...
Real Estate Cycle Real Estate Trends Strategic Planning
As of year-end 2017, the RCLCO Real Estate Market Sentiment Index increased and now stands above bot...
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December 30, 2017
The Villages is Back on Top: The Top-Selling Master-Planned ...
Master-Planned Communities Top 50
See which communities made the list for the 50 top-selling MPCs of 2017.
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December 22, 2017
Impact of the Tax Bill on Real Estate
Policy Impacts Real Estate Trends
The Tax Cut and Jobs Act has passed, marketed as a Christmas present for the middle class, but heavi...
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November 30, 2017
RCLCO futuRE Series: A Driverless Vehicle Roadmap for the Re...
Industry Innovation Disruptive Technology
Autonomous/driverless vehicles are going to become a reality within the next two decades and have th...
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October 23, 2017
2017 STEM Job Growth Index
Real Estate Investing STEM Anchor Institution
RCLCO partnered with CapRidge Partners to create the STEM Job Growth Index (STEMdex) to identify whi...
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September 14, 2017
Webinars: Contrarian Real Estate Investing Parts I & II
Real Estate Investing Institutional Real Estate Market Trends
RCLCO presents our framework for identifying this investment perspective, guidance on underwriting, ...
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July 20, 2017
How Long Will the Expansion Continue? Sentiment Survey Mid-Y...

Two-thirds of respondents believe the next downturn will not begin until at least 2019, and current ...
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July 13, 2017
Cautious Optimism Continues Even as “Trump Bump”...
Real Estate Cycle Real Estate Trends
The Trump Bump stumbles, with a large drop of respondents predicting the administration will have a ...
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July 6, 2017
Top-Selling Master-Planned Communities: Mid-Year Update 2017
Master-Planned Communities Top 50
Home sales at the nation’s 50 top-selling MPCs were strong in the first half of 2017, with the top...
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April 20, 2017
Looking Beyond the Luxury Market – Are Homebuilders Bu...
Community and Resort Real Estate Market Trends
Building for the Top Is the entry-level home a thing of the past? It has largely appeared that way t...
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February 21, 2017
Market Monitor California on Top and Bottom: Sacramento Lead...
urban real estate Real Estate Market Trends
At 12.7%, Sacramento Leads the Nation’s Largest Markets in Class A Apartment Rent Growth Sacrament...
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February 1, 2017
Bigger Units, Bigger Payday: Exploring and Mapping the Growt...
urban real estate Real Estate Trends
The “micro unit” trend—shrinking unit sizes to maintain more affordable rents, while achieving...
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January 26, 2017
Master-Planned Communities Drive Higher Sales with Better Pr...
Community and Resort Master-Planned Communities
Many of the communities in RCLCO’s 50 Top-Selling Master-Planned Communities (MPCs) of 2016 cited ...
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January 24, 2017
A More Durable Expansion? Sentiment by Product Type and RCLC...

Sentiment Survey YE 2016 Results: 40% of respondents believe the next U.S. real estate market downtu...
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January 19, 2017
The Trump Bump? Sentiment Up Compared with Six Months Ago S...
Real Estate Cycle Strategic Planning
The results are in: sentiment is up from six months ago, but still down compared with year-end 2015....
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January 4, 2017
The Top-Selling Master-Planned Communities of 2016
Community and Resort Master-Planned Communities
Home sales at the nation’s 20 top-selling master-planned communities (MPCs) surpassed 2015 totals ...
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December 28, 2016
Top-Selling Master-Planned Communities: Preview
Community and Resort Master-Planned Communities
RCLCO’s Master-Planned Community Survey is the longest running in the industry, and as such benefi...
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December 24, 2016
RCLCO Special Report: Top-Selling Master-Planned Communities...
Community and Resort Master-Planned Communities
Since 1994, RCLCO has conducted a national survey identifying the top-selling Master Planned Communi...
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December 13, 2016
Headwinds for Hotels as Construction Ramps Up
Institutional Real Estate Trends Hospitality
The Hotel Sector’s Strong Run The hospitality sector has enjoyed robust performance post-recession...
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December 5, 2016
Re-Painting the Picket Fence: A New Definition and Interacti...
Real Estate Trends Suburban Housing
Do you live in a suburb? For many Americans, the answer to this question is a resounding “yes&...
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November 17, 2016
New Single-Family Housing Market Overview – Florida Q3...
Community and Resort Single-Family Housing
New single-family home sales for the first three quarters of 2016 across six of Florida’s metr...
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November 4, 2016
The Big Shrink: The Shift Toward Smaller Industrial Spaces i...
Industrial Supply & Demand Institutional
E-Commerce’s Effect On Industrial E-commerce continues to fundamentally redefine the real estate s...
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October 27, 2016
Shining Light on a Shadow Market: Understanding the Single-F...
Single-Family Rentals Demographic Trends
Evolution from Shadow Market to Institutional-Grade Product Single-family renter households have bee...
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October 13, 2016
Is Smaller Getting Bigger? Visualizing Micro Units Across th...
urban real estate Multifamily Anchor Institution
Since collaborating with the Urban Land Institute on The Macro View on Micro Units report in 2014, R...
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September 26, 2016
Evaluating the Top 25 Most Active Markets: A Look at Single...
Community and Resort Real Estate Trends
While the overall U.S. housing market expanded since the Great Recession, it's clear from the data t...
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September 6, 2016
CALL FOR PAPERS: THE RCLCAO FOUNDATION 50TH ANNIVERSARY PAPE...

CALL FOR PAPERS:THE RCLCO FOUNDATION 50TH ANNIVERSARY PAPER PRIZE The RCLCO Foundation, a 501(c)(3) ...
August 31, 2016
Exploring Improved Diversification Strategies to Reduce Port...
Real Estate Investing Strategic Planning
For several decades, diversification by geographic region has been a critical component of real esta...
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August 11, 2016
The Rise of Co-Living: Moving Beyond the College Dorm

Co-Living Is More than Just a Micro Unit Co-living has become an increasingly popular housing option...
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July 21, 2016
Hail the Peerless City: Seattle Leads Top 20 Markets in Mid-...
urban real estate
Market Monitor Seattle Leads the Nation in Class A Apartment Rent Growth at 9.9% Seattle saw impress...
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July 14, 2016
The Coming Retirement Wave: A Changing Economic Context for ...
Baby Boomer Housing Real Estate Trends
The growing age 65+ demographic segment, driven by the aging Baby Boomer population, will be increa...
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July 7, 2016
Sentiment Survey Mid-Year 2016: Part 2
Strategic Planning
Brexit, Schmexit? But, Dust Off Your Cycle Strategy Just in Case… Stock markets around the globe ...
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July 7, 2016
2016 MPC Survey – Mid-Year Update
Community and Resort
Homes at the nation’s top-selling master-planned communities (MPCs) sold at a similar pace in the ...
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June 28, 2016
Sentiment Survey Mid-Year 2016 Results: Part I
Real Estate Cycle Strategic Planning
According to the recent Sentiment Survey (completed before the Brexit vote), the nation’s market c...
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June 23, 2016
Introducing FIVA: RCLCO’s Newest Tool for Fiscal &...
Public Strategies
Public or private, large or small, fiscal and economic impact analysis can be a useful tool for any ...
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June 16, 2016
Co-Investments in Real Estate: A Quick Primer
Strategic Planning
Two Key Types of Co-Investment As institutions consider their options for real estate investing goin...
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June 9, 2016
A Big Boom in Affluent, Older Renters-by-Choice in the U.S.?

The number of Americans age 50 and over is projected to increase rapidly over the next 10 years, gro...
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June 2, 2016
2016 STEM Job Growth Index
STEM Institutional Anchor Institution
What Is STEM and What Are STEM Jobs? STEM is an acronym that refers to science, technology, engineer...
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May 26, 2016
Walkable Retail: When Old Becomes New Again – Part 2
Public Strategies Retail
Americans are returning to walkable neighborhoods. Property values are appreciating much faster in t...
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May 19, 2016
Why the Boom in Single-Family Rentals? Renters with Kids, bu...
Single-Family Rentals Institutional
One of the most dramatic shifts in the U.S. market over the past decade has been the unprecedented i...
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May 5, 2016
Saving Tax Dollars with Compact Development
Public Strategies
How and where growth occurs plays an important part in local economies, the environment, and a commu...
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April 28, 2016
Healthy Prognosis for Medical Office
Institutional Anchor Institution Medical Office
The medical office sector has drawn increasing attention from institutional investors, with nearly $...
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April 26, 2016
Multifamily Metrics and Market Selection
urban real estate Multifamily
Jobs, income, GDP—you read the market rankings every quarter, but still wonder how closely they co...
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April 19, 2016
Surprises from RCLCO’s Economic Hot Spot Map
Institutional
RCLCO first published an Economic Hot Spot map in 2013. At the time, the economy was recovering from...
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April 12, 2016
Rutabaga, Radicchio, and Rent Growth: Measuring the “W...
urban real estate Multifamily
Introduction The arrival of a Whole Foods in a gentrifying area is commonly seen as an indicator tha...
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April 8, 2016
The Impact of the Student Debt “Crisis” on Housi...
Affordable Housing Institutional
Between 2000 and 2014, the total volume of outstanding federal student debt in the U.S. nearly quadr...
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March 25, 2016
Millennial Urban Preferences: Will They Last?
Housing Preferences
Generation Y, or the Millennials, and their consumer preferences are a dominant presence in the news...
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February 25, 2016
Meet Me in the Middle: Supply Trends, Factors, and Product C...
Affordable Housing Community and Resort
Summary of Findings Instead of targeting the meat of the market with a volume-driven strategy, high ...
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February 11, 2016
Walkable Retail: When Old Becomes New Again – Part 1
Retail
You have probably read the following headline thousands of times, perhaps this year alone: All but o...
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February 4, 2016
Real Estate Crowdfunding: A Look Back, A Look Ahead
Real Estate Investing Institutional
Crowdfunding as a source of capital for real estate investments is now entering its fourth year of e...
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February 2, 2016
Cycles Are Alive and Well—How About Your Strategy?

Recent volatility in the financial markets and nervousness on the part of the Fed about the health o...
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January 26, 2016
Respondents Expect Many Product Types to Move from Early Sta...
Strategic Planning
As we discussed last week, RCLCO’s 1Q 2016 Sentiment Survey found that most respondents reported p...
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January 20, 2016
Sentiment at Lowest Point Since 2012
Strategic Planning
RCLCO National Market Sentiment Survey 1Q 2016 Results Part 1 The results of RCLCO’s latest Market...
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January 5, 2016
The Top-Selling Master-Planned Communities of 2015
Community & Resort Master-Planned Communities
Homes at the nation’s top-selling master-planned communities (MPCs) sold at a slightly quicker pac...
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December 22, 2015
RCLCO futuRE Series: A Driverless Vehicle Roadmap for the Re...
Industry Innovation Real Estate Trends
As highlighted in part one of this series, fully autonomous, or “driverless,” vehicles (...
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December 17, 2015
Foreign Investors Push Central Florida Vacation Rental Sales...
Second Homes Community & Resort Vacation Homes
Over 62 million persons visited the Orlando area in 2014, mainly attributable to the sustained and g...
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December 10, 2015
Hot Spots in the National Second Home Market
Second Homes Community & Resort
Our previous article on vacation/second homes focused on the national increase in vacation home purc...
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November 12, 2015
Vacation Home Trends Update
Second Homes Community & Resort Vacation Homes
Vacation homes have lagged behind all other real estate product types in terms of recovery from the ...
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October 29, 2015
Mixed Signals in the New For-Sale Housing Market

New home sales in the U.S. were down in September, but the longer-term trend has been positive so fa...
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July 24, 2015
Cycle Update: Stable Conditions Continue
Strategic Planning
RCLCO’s National Market Sentiment Survey 3Q 2015 Results – Part 2 Echoing participants&r...
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July 16, 2015
Developing a Model for Medical Center Housing with Adam Duck...
urban real estate Medical Center
In the ever-changing real estate markets, it is imperative to “look around the corner,” ...
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July 9, 2015
No News Is Good News: Stable Outlook Ahead
Strategic Planning
RCLCO National Market Sentiment Survey 3Q 2015 Results Part 1 RCLCO’s latest Market Sentiment ...
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July 7, 2015
The Top-Selling Master-Planned Communities Mid-Year 2015 Upd...
Community & Resort
The nation’s top-selling master-planned communities sold homes at a quicker pace in the first half...
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May 11, 2015
RCLCO futuRE Series: A Driverless Vehicle Roadmap for the Re...
Industry Innovation Real Estate Trends
Fully autonomous, or “driverless,” vehicles (AVs), in one form or another, are going to ...
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April 7, 2015
RCLCO and Smart Growth America Unveil New Model for Analyzin...
Public Strategies
Every town, city, and county makes decisions about how and where to grow and what kind of developmen...
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April 2, 2015
The Future of Active Adult Communities with Gregg Logan
Community & Resort
Deciding to buy a new home or move to a new community is often precipitated by a change in lifestage...
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March 31, 2015
Finally, Some Good News Out of Washington—But Where ar...
Strategic Planning
Seems like the media are only interested in reporting on bad news about Washington, D.C., these days...
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February 12, 2015
Cycle Update—Moving Right Along
Strategic Planning
RCLCO’s National Market Sentiment Survey 1Q 2015 Results – Part 2 Moving into the new ye...
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February 3, 2015
Outlook for 2015: All Things in Moderation
Strategic Planning
RCLCO National Market Sentiment Survey 1Q 2015 Results Part 1 Just a year and one-half ago, responde...
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January 6, 2015
The Top-Selling Master-Planned Communities of 2014
Community and Resort
After several years of increasing home sales at the nation’s top-selling master-planned communitie...
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November 19, 2014
RCLCO Partners with ULI Foundation to Publish New Research o...
Strategic Planning
The Urban Land Institute (ULI) has just published a new research report entitled The Macro View on M...
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November 6, 2014
Millennials’ Influence on New Home Demand
Community and Resort
Will the demand for new for-sale housing from the Millennial generation continue to increase as the ...
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July 11, 2014
The Road to Recovery—Are We There Yet?
Strategic Planning
RCLCO National Market Sentiment Survey Results Part 2 Throughout the downturn and into the recovery,...
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July 7, 2014
The Best-Selling Master-Planned Communities Mid-Year 2014 Up...
Community and Resort
Homes at the nation’s top-selling master-planned communities (MPCs) sold at a slightly slower pace...
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June 27, 2014
Going Steady: Expectations Optimistic, But Moderate
Strategic Planning
RCLCO National Market Sentiment Survey Results Part 1 Over the past three years, RCLCO’s...
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May 29, 2014
“Deeper and Deeper and Deeper”: Sizing America&#...
urban real estate
In this space over the past six months we have discussed how to prepare for the increasing con...
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May 1, 2014
Trends Among Florida’s Top-Selling Active Adult Commun...
Community and Resort
Florida’s active adult communities (AACs) are attracting a significant share of 55 and older h...
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April 17, 2014
Top MPC Developers Share Insights During RCLCO Webinar
Community and Resort
On March 27, 2014, about 200 of RCLCO’s clients, friends, and colleagues came together online ...
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March 5, 2014
Washington, D.C., Master-Planned Communities on the Rise
Community and Resort
The big story for master-planned communities (MPCs) in the Washington, D.C., area in 2013 is that th...
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February 26, 2014
Hospitality’s New Vocabulary: Flashpackers, Yotels, an...
urban real estate Hospitality
As the broader real estate industry looks for strategies or inspiration regarding how to evolve and ...
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February 7, 2014
Finding the Market for the Long-Term Vision
Public Strategies
Long-range projects, especially those in challenging locations, whether sponsored by the public or p...
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January 29, 2014
Top Dogs and Underdogs: Where Are We in the Cycle?
Strategic Planning
RCLCO National Sentiment Survey Part 2 In 3Q 2012, RCLCO’s National Sentiment Survey reported ...
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January 23, 2014
Have We Reached the Light at the End of the Tunnel?
Strategic Planning
RCLCO National Sentiment Survey Part 1 In the last three years of the RCLCO National Sentiment Surve...
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January 16, 2014
Condos: What’s Working Now
urban real estate
Market Segmentation Strategies that Connect with Customers Introduction As RCLCO hypothesized in thi...
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January 10, 2014
RCLCO 2014 Real Estate Outlook
Institutional
It has been a year since our last real estate outlook, and an eventful year it was. As we expected, ...
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January 8, 2014
The Top-Selling Master-Planned Communities of 2013
Community and Resort
Home sales at the nation’s top master-planned communities (MPCs) continued increasing in 2013 to t...
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December 17, 2013
Strategy for Real Estate Companies: How to Manage for the Cy...
Strategic Planning
Part 2: Real Estate Market Cycle Stages and Strategies In the previous installment (see: Part 1: Rea...
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December 12, 2013
Strategy for Real Estate Companies: How to Manage for the Cy...

Part 1 of 2: Real Estate Market Cycles – Making the Call Now that the economy and real estate ...
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December 4, 2013
Top 10 Megapolitan Regions Gaining Market Share
Community and Resort
In this Advisory we examine the regions in the U.S. that are likely to achieve the greatest growth m...
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November 4, 2013
Stay Up to Date with The Best Minds in Real Estate

2013 ULI Fall Meeting RCLCO’s Leadership Team will be at the 2013 ULI Fall Meeting in Chicago ...
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November 1, 2013
Vacation Housing Recovery Tied to Primary Housing Starts
Second Homes Community and Resort Vacation Homes
Recovery Soon Is Likely in Areas that Have Been Lagging By: Taylor Mammen, Principal/Director of Con...
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October 18, 2013
Is Housing Affordability in the Texas Triangle at Risk?
Affordable Housing Community and Resort
Economic Performance The largest metropolitan areas of the Texas Triangle—Dallas-Fort Worth, Houst...
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September 25, 2013
A Warehouse Demand Primer
Institutional
Logistics Operations Aim for Efficiencies in Time and Cost Maersk, the world’s largest shipper...
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September 19, 2013
Sequestration: Myth or Monster?
Strategic Planning
With the first round of cuts from the dreaded Sequester going into effect, industry professionals ar...
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September 12, 2013
Condo Recovery Underway and Likely to Accelerate
urban real estate
How to Ride the Wave This Time Around Without Losing Your Shirt If there’s a single lesson fro...
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August 27, 2013
RCLCO National Real Estate Sentiment Survey: For-Sale Housin...
Strategic Planning
In the last year, great strides have been made across all sectors of real estate. In RCLCO’s Q3 20...
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August 21, 2013
The Top-Selling Master-Planned Communities Mid-Year 2013 Upd...
Community and Resort
Homes at the nation’s top-selling master-planned communities (MPCs) sold at a much faster pace in ...
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August 8, 2013
Demographic Trends Support Robust Multifamily Demand
urban real estate Multifamily
The strong recovery in the multifamily housing industry, especially relative to the weaker recovery ...
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July 31, 2013
Interest Rates and Real Estate Pricing Risk
Institutional
A SIGNIFICANT RISE IN TREASURY YIELDS The 100 bp rise in 10-yr treasury yields in May and June cause...
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July 29, 2013
RCLCO’s Strategic Approach to Impact Analysis Adds Val...
urban real estate
RCLCO’s impact studies are considered to be beyond reproach by our clients and other public se...
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July 24, 2013
RCLCO National Real Estate Sentiment Survey MY 2013

Building upon strong gains beginning in the second half of 2012, the Current Real Estate Market Inde...
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July 18, 2013
The New Model for Commercial Real Estate Demand
Institutional
While U.S. commercial real estate markets are continuing to recover, they have improved more slowly ...
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May 30, 2013
Competing in a Global Market: 11 U.S. Megaregions and Implic...
Institutional
As investors compete in an increasingly crowded global market place, attention is returning homeward...
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May 23, 2013
In-Depth Look at Top-Selling Master-Planned Communities
Community and Resort
RCLCO recently checked in with the top-selling master-planned communities (MPCs) in 2012, to better ...
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May 7, 2013
Apartments Continue to Lead Commercial Property Market Recov...
Institutional
All property types in the U.S. continue to improve, with occupancy and rents up in the first quarter...
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April 26, 2013
Infrastructure Financing in Master-Planned Communities
Community and Resort
One of the biggest challenges of developing a large-scale master-planned community (MPC) is figuring...
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April 19, 2013
Strategic Market Analysis: A Critical Component of Successfu...
Public Strategies
As trends in development focus on walkable, mixed-use communities, one of the challenges faced by co...
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March 5, 2013
Best Practices Report: Seniors Housing Innovative Intergener...
urban real estate
By 2017, 10% of the U.S. population will be 70 years old or over, and the population in this age ran...
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February 26, 2013
Market Pitfalls of Form-Based or Smart Codes
Public Strategies
The intent of many form-based or smart codes is to promote smart growth within a community. Smart gr...
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February 21, 2013
Sequestration—What Me, Worry?
Strategic Planning
Two months before the presidential election, and a full quarter before Congress kicked the latest fi...
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February 19, 2013
Real Estate Turns the Corner
Strategic Planning
Multifamily rental apartments have been out of the woods since early 2011 in many parts of the count...
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February 12, 2013
RCLCO National Real Estate Sentiment Survey
Strategic Planning
Broad-Based, but Guarded, Optimism Guarded Optimism… After another slight hesitation in the third ...
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February 5, 2013
Regional Hotspots for Economic Growth
Institutional
While the 4th quarter 2012 GDP growth estimate of -0.1% is disappointing, some local economies are b...
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January 24, 2013
RCLCO Launches a New Methodology: MetroLogic™
Public Strategies
How can a property or jurisdiction enhance its competitiveness for growth? What impact will evolving...
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January 18, 2013
Pop-Up America: Embracing Change in the U.S. Retailing Envir...
Retail
The retail market has been experiencing a significant shift during the past several years with a gro...
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January 10, 2013
Top-Selling Master-Planned Communities of 2012
Advisory MPC Reports 2012
Home sales at the nation’s top master-planned communities (MPCs) were the strongest since 2007...
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January 10, 2013
Top-Selling Master-Planned Communities of 2012
Community and Resort Master-Planned Communities
Home sales at the nation’s top master-planned communities (MPCs) were the strongest since 2007. Ev...
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January 1, 2013
RCLCO U.S. Real Estate Market Outlook for 2013 and Beyond: S...
Institutional
The U.S. real estate market improved in 2012, and there is good reason for optimism going forward as...
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December 3, 2012
New Study Shows Young Americans’ Declining Preference ...
urban real estate
Urban Housing Design and Economics Likely to Change Americans’ love affair with the auto...
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July 26, 2012
RCLCO National Real Estate Sentiment Survey and RCLCO’...
Strategic Planning
For-Sale Housing Continuing to Gain Momentum 2Q 2012 After a slight hesitation in the first quarter,...
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July 18, 2012
Post Recession: Homebuyers Willing to Pay More for Green Fea...
Community and Resort
The market for green homes is on the rise. According to McGraw-Hill Construction, the share of singl...
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June 26, 2012
Major U.S. Court of Appeals Decision in a Case for Which RCL...
Strategic Planning
Over the past five years, RCLCO has become increasingly active in providing consulting and litigatio...
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June 12, 2012
Empty Nester for Rent?
urban real estate
Quantifying the Depth of an Important Segmentation Opportunity for Rental Apartments The radical rec...
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May 25, 2012
In-Depth Look at Top-Selling MPC’s
Community and Resort
RCLCO recently reported that year-to-date 2012 home sales at top master-planned communities are the ...
May 8, 2012
Apartment Pricing Power Remains Strong
urban real estate
Renters Still Willing to Pay More for Larger, Better, and Well Located Units with a New Focus on Ame...
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April 30, 2012
RCLCO Forecast: Does the Housing Market Still Want the Subur...
Community and Resort
This is the third installment in a series examining New US Housing Demand, relative to underlying de...
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April 16, 2012
RCLCO National Real Estate Sentiment Survey and RCLCO’...

Gaining Momentum 1Q 2012 Real estate industry professionals continue to express confidence that the ...
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April 11, 2012
Will the North American Second Home Buyer Look Offshore Agai...
Second Homes Community and Resort
RCLCO Research Shows Surprisingly High Levels of Interest in International Vacation Home Locations A...
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March 29, 2012
Top-Selling Master-Planned Communities of 2011: How Master-P...
2012
Year-to-date 2012 home sales at top master-planned communities (MPCs) are the strongest in three yea...
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March 20, 2012
Beyond the Census: Rapid Growth Among Second Generation Lati...
urban real estate
RCLCO is always asked where growth is occurring; when perhaps an equally important question might be...
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March 16, 2012
Public Projects, Private Dollars – How the Real Estate...
Public Strategies Public-Private Partnerships
While many economists are becoming cautiously optimistic about the prospects for economic growth th...
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February 28, 2012
Part 2 of RCLCO Forecast: Understanding the Demand for New H...
Community and Resort
This is the second installment in a series examining New US Housing Demand, relative to underl...
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February 21, 2012
Part 1 of RCLCO Forecast: Understanding the Demand for New H...
Community and Resort
This is the first installment in a series examining New US Housing Demand, relative to underlying de...
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February 9, 2012
RCLCO National Real Estate Sentiment Survey and RCLCO’...

Rational Exuberance: 4Q 2011 Real estate industry professionals have become dramatically more positi...
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February 1, 2012
As The Multifamily Recovery Accelerates The Smart Get Cycle ...

The mood at last month’s National Multi Housing Council Annual Meeting in Boca Raton was expectedl...
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October 14, 2011
RCLCO National Real Estate Sentiment Survey: 3Q 2011

3Q 2011 Political uncertainly both at home and abroad, a less than stellar job market in the US, gyr...
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June 1, 2011
RCLCO on the Economy and the Real Estate Market: Recovery Co...
Strategic Planning
Economic Overview It is our view that the recent negative sentiments about the U.S. economy are driv...
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December 31, 2010
RCLCO Announces Top-Selling U.S Master-Planned Communities f...
2010 Advisory MPC Reports mpc-top-selling-us-master-planned-communities-for-2010
PRESS RELEASE BETHESDA, MD – The Villages, an active adult community in Central Florida with 2,107...
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December 31, 2009
RCLCO Announces Top-Selling U.S Master-Planned Communities f...
Community and Resort Master-Planned Communities
PRESS RELEASE BETHESDA, MD – Newland Communities’ Cinco Ranch, with 887 net sales, was 2009’s ...
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December 31, 2008
RCLCO Announces Top-Selling U.S Master-Planned Communities f...
Community and Resort Master-Planned Communities
PRESS RELEASE BETHESDA, MD – Mountain’s Edge, with 879 net sales, was 2008’s top-selling maste...
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February 22, 2007
RCLCO Announces Top-Selling U.S Master-Planned Communities f...
Community and Resort Master-Planned Communities
Mountain’s Edge, with 1,740 net sales, was 2007’s top-selling master-planned community (MPC) in ...
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December 31, 2006
RCLCO Announces Top-Selling U.S Master-Planned Communities f...
Community and Resort Master-Planned Communities
PRESS RELEASE BETHESDA, MD – Poinciana, with 2,563 net sales, was 2006’s top-selling master-plan...
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December 31, 2005
Robert Charles Lesser & Co., LLC Announces Top-Selling U...
Community and Resort Master-Planned Communities
BETHESDA, MD – The Villages, with 4,262 sales, is the top-selling master-planned community (MPC) i...
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December 31, 2004
Robert Charles Lesser & Co., LLC Announces Top-Selling U...
Master-Planned Communities
BETHESDA, MD – The Villages is the top-selling master-planned community (MPC) in the U.S. for the ...
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December 31, 2003
Robert Charles Lesser & Co., LLC Announces Top-Selling U...
2003
BETHESDA, MD – The Villages is the top-selling master-planned community (MPC) in the U.S., based o...
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