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The Advisory

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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September 12, 2019

The Impact of the Next Recession on the Multifamily Market

Real Estate Cycle Real Estate Market Trends

Given the many differences between the economic conditions and housing market of 2008 and today, few analysts expect the next recession to have similarly devastating impacts. ...

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...

August 14, 2019

Financing Mechanisms: Top-Selling MPCs Mid-Year 2019

Community and Resort

Every year since 1994, RCLCO has conducted a national survey identifying the top-selling MPCs throug...

July 9, 2019

Top-Selling Master-Planned Communities Mid-Year 2019

Master-Planned Communities

Every year since 1994, RCLCO has conducted a national survey identifying the top-selling MPCs throug...

July 9, 2019

Interactive Map of the Top-Selling Master-Planned Communitie...

For-Sale Housing Master-Planned Communities

Following the release of the Top-Selling Master-Planned Communities: Mid-Year 2019, RCLCO has prepar...

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 ...

June 20, 2019

RCLCO’s Mid-Year 2019 Sentiment Survey Results: Don’t St...

Real Estate Cycle Strategic Planning

Over the past few years, RCLCO Sentiment Surveys have indicated continued confidence in real estate ...

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...

May 2, 2019

Impact of the Next Recession on Residential Real Estate Mark...

Real Estate Cycle Real Estate Market Trends

In this issue of the Advisory we address the vulnerability of for-sale housing markets to the next r...

April 25, 2019

Attainable Housing: Challenges, Perceptions, and Solutions

Attainable Housing For-Sale Housing

RCLCO recently worked with the ULI Terwilliger Center for Housing to prepare Attainable Housing: Cha...

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 ...

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...

March 14, 2019

Disruptive Demographics: Housing Production & Demograph...

Consumer Insights Attainable Housing Demographic Trends

In this new report we examine how housing production and demographic reality are sometimes moving in...

February 28, 2019

New Opportunities for Medium-Density Residential

Consumer Insights Attainable Housing For-Sale Housing

We dug deeper into the results of our recent Housing and Community Preference Survey and interviewed...

January 31, 2019

2019 STEM Job Growth Index

Demographic Trends Institutional Investment

RCLCO's 3rd Annual STEM Job Growth Index includes a number of familiar metro areas, but also a coupl...

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...

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...

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...

January 3, 2019

Top-Selling Master-Planned Communities of 2018

For-Sale Housing Master-Planned Communities

Every year since 1994, RCLCO has conducted a national survey identifying the top-selling MPCs throug...

December 18, 2018

2018 Housing and Community Preference Survey

Consumer Insights For-Sale Housing Community and Resort

The results of RCLCO’s 2018 Housing and Community Preference Survey are in and include insights on...

October 18, 2018

Who Should Control Rent Control? Impacts of Prop 10 and Inte...

Urban Housing Trends Attainable Housing Policy Impacts

This November, Californians will vote on Proposition 10, a ballot initiative that seeks to repeal th...

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.

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...

July 6, 2018

Top-Selling Master-Planned Communities: Mid-Year 2018

Community and Resort Master-Planned Communities

Every year since 1994, RCLCO has conducted a national survey identifying the top-selling MPCs throug...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

April 4, 2018

E-Sports Arenas: Are Video Games the Next Great Urban Entert...

urban real estate Stadium Development

As the e-sports market continues to expand, additional demand for e-sports arenas is likely, present...

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...

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...

February 15, 2018

A Whole New Ball Game: Reframing the Impact of Sports Venue...

urban real estate Stadium Development

Sporting events attract millions each year; venues that host these events are cultural and economic ...

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...

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...

December 30, 2017

The Villages is Back on Top: The Top-Selling Master-Planned ...

Community and Resort Master-Planned Communities

See which communities made the list for the 50 top-selling MPCs of 2017.

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...

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...

October 23, 2017

2017 STEM Job Growth Index

Real Estate Investing STEM Top 10

RCLCO partnered with CapRidge Partners to create the STEM Job Growth Index (STEMdex) to identify whi...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

July 6, 2017

Top-Selling Master-Planned Communities: Mid-Year Update 2017

Community and Resort Master-Planned Communities

Home sales at the nation’s 50 top-selling MPCs were strong in the first half of 2017, with the top...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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....

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 ...

December 13, 2016

Headwinds for Hotels as Construction Ramps Up

Institutional Real Estate Trends

The Hotel Sector’s Strong Run The hospitality sector has enjoyed robust performance post-reces...

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&...

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...

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...

October 27, 2016

Shining Light on a Shadow Market: Understanding the Single-F...

urban real estate Demographic Trends

Evolution from Shadow Market to Institutional-Grade Product Single-family renter households have bee...

October 13, 2016

Is Smaller Getting Bigger? Visualizing Micro Units Across th...

urban real estate Real Estate Trends

Since collaborating with the Urban Land Institute on The Macro View on Micro Units report in 2014, R...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

June 2, 2016

2016 STEM Job Growth Index

Institutional

What Is STEM and What Are STEM Jobs? STEM is an acronym that refers to science, technology, engineer...

May 26, 2016

Walkable Retail: When Old Becomes New Again – Part 2

Public Strategies

Americans are returning to walkable neighborhoods. Property values are appreciating much faster in t...

May 19, 2016

Why the Boom in Single-Family Rentals? Renters with Kids, bu...

Institutional

One of the most dramatic shifts in the U.S. market over the past decade has been the unprecedented i...

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...

April 28, 2016

Healthy Prognosis for Medical Office

Institutional

The medical office sector has drawn increasing attention from institutional investors, with nearly $...

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...

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...

April 12, 2016

Rutabaga, Radicchio, and Rent Growth: Measuring the “W...

urban real estate

Introduction The arrival of a Whole Foods in a gentrifying area is commonly seen as an indicator tha...

April 8, 2016

The Impact of the Student Debt “Crisis” on Housi...

Institutional

Between 2000 and 2014, the total volume of outstanding federal student debt in the U.S. nearly quadr...

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...

February 25, 2016

Meet Me in the Middle: Supply Trends, Factors, and Product C...

Community and Resort

Summary of Findings Instead of targeting the meat of the market with a volume-driven strategy, high ...

February 11, 2016

Walkable Retail: When Old Becomes New Again – Part 1

You have probably read the following headline thousands of times, perhaps this year alone: All but o...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

December 22, 2015

RCLCO futuRE Series: A Driverless Vehicle Roadmap for the Re...

Real Estate Trends

As highlighted in part one of this series, fully autonomous, or “driverless,” vehicles (...

December 17, 2015

Foreign Investors Push Central Florida Vacation Rental Sales...

Community & Resort

Over 62 million persons visited the Orlando area in 2014, mainly attributable to the sustained and g...

December 10, 2015

Hot Spots in the National Second Home Market

Community & Resort

Our previous article on vacation/second homes focused on the national increase in vacation home purc...

November 12, 2015

Vacation Home Trends Update

Community & Resort

Vacation homes have lagged behind all other real estate product types in terms of recovery from the ...

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...

July 24, 2015

Cycle Update: Stable Conditions Continue

Strategic Planning

RCLCO’s National Market Sentiment Survey 3Q 2015 Results – Part 2 Echoing participants&r...

July 16, 2015

Developing a Model for Medical Center Housing with Adam Duck...

urban real estate

In the ever-changing real estate markets, it is imperative to “look around the corner,” ...

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 ...

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...

May 11, 2015

RCLCO futuRE Series: A Driverless Vehicle Roadmap for the Re...

Real Estate Trends

Fully autonomous, or “driverless,” vehicles (AVs), in one form or another, are going to ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

February 26, 2014

Hospitality’s New Vocabulary: Flashpackers, Yotels, an...

urban real estate

As the broader real estate industry looks for strategies or inspiration regarding how to evolve and ...

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...

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 ...

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...

January 16, 2014

Condos: What’s Working Now

urban real estate

Market Segmentation Strategies that Connect with Customers Introduction As RCLCO hypothesized in thi...

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, ...

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...

December 17, 2013

Strategy for Real Estate Companies: How to Manage for the Cy...

Part 2: Real Estate Market Cycle Stages and Strategies In the previous installment (see: Part 1: Rea...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

November 1, 2013

Vacation Housing Recovery Tied to Primary Housing Starts

Community and Resort

Recovery Soon Is Likely in Areas that Have Been Lagging By: Taylor Mammen, Principal/Director of Con...

October 18, 2013

Is Housing Affordability in the Texas Triangle at Risk?

Community and Resort

Economic Performance The largest metropolitan areas of the Texas Triangle—Dallas-Fort Worth, H...

September 25, 2013

A Warehouse Demand Primer

Institutional

Logistics Operations Aim for Efficiencies in Time and Cost Maersk, the world’s largest shipper...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

January 18, 2013

Pop-Up America: Embracing Change in the U.S. Retailing Envir...

The retail market has been experiencing a significant shift during the past several years with a gro...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

June 12, 2012

Empty Nester for Rent?

urban real estate

Quantifying the Depth of an Important Segmentation Opportunity for Rental Apartments The radical rec...

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...

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...

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 ...

April 11, 2012

Will the North American Second Home Buyer Look Offshore Agai...

Community and Resort

RCLCO Research Shows Surprisingly High Levels of Interest in International Vacation Home Locations&n...

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...

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...

March 16, 2012

Public Projects, Private Dollars – How the Real Estate...

Public Strategies

While many economists are becoming cautiously optimistic about the prospects for economic growth&nbs...

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...

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...

February 9, 2012

RCLCO National Real Estate Sentiment Survey and RCLCO’...

Rational Exuberance: 4Q 2011 Real estate industry professionals have become dramatically more positi...

February 1, 2012

As The Multifamily Recovery Accelerates The Smart Get Cycle ...

Multifamily

The mood at last month’s National Multi Housing Council Annual Meeting in Boca Raton was expec...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...