The Advisory

To better understand how real estate firms, particularly privately held companies, are approaching board composition, RCLCO’s Compensation Consulting practice conducted its inaugural Board of Directors Compensation Survey

2 years ago

Soft Apartment Market Makes Hold-Sell Decisions More Difficult

The US apartment sector is currently experiencing a rough patch in terms of elevated supply, reduced debt availability, higher borrowing costs, and lower values resulting from stagnant rents and higher…

2 years ago

Sports Venue-Anchored Real Estate Development – Overview by League

RCLCO has created a proprietary Venue-Anchored Development Tracker of every major league stadium in the United States and Canada in order to track existing, under construction, and planned venue-anchored real…

2 years ago

Underperformance Paradox

Some recent research argues that more direct approaches to real estate investing can more effectively address the characteristics, opportunities, and risks associated with the current state of commercial real estate.

2 years ago

Financing Mechanisms: The 50 Top-Selling MPCs of 2023

How are master-planned communities financing and constructing public infrastructure? RCLCO has teamed up with Launch Development Finance Advisors to investigate and found that a significant majority of home sales within…

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2 years ago

30th Edition: The Top-Selling Master-Planned Communities of 2023

Sales are up nearly 14% from last year among the Top-Selling Master-Planned Communities in the country

3 years ago

2024 Looking Better Than Before

The RCLCO sentiment index has remained low throughout 2023 but the future outlook has become more encouraging as we approach the end of the year.

3 years ago

Academics Question the Value of Private Real Estate Funds: What’s an Investor to Do?

A growing body of research has broadly found that closed-end real estate funds, in aggregate, have not delivered acceptable net returns across multiple metrics: relative to alternative opportunities, to risks,…

3 years ago

2023 STEM Job Growth Index (STEMdex)

The annual STEMdex highlights metropolitan areas that are current strongholds of STEM employment and those that are likely to see positive growth in the coming years

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3 years ago

The Updated Neighborhood Atlas

RCLCO is happy to announce an update and expansion to its Neighborhood Atlas. Originally created in conjunction with the ULI Terwilliger Center for Housing, the Neighborhood Atlas is an interactive…

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3 years ago

Financing Mechanisms: The Top-Selling MPCs of Mid-Year 2023

3 years ago

Data Centers: Capitalizing on the Data Explosion

Data Centers: Capitalizing on the Data Explosion September 16, 2023 By William Maher, Director of Strategy and Research, RFA; Michael Essig, Vice President, RFA Originally published in PREA Quarterly Magazine…

3 years ago

Single-Family Rental Housing – Institutional Opportunities

Single-family homes have been an important part of the US rental housing market for decades and even centuries. Individual investors have long owned houses they rent to a wide variety…

3 years ago

Build-to-Rent Single Family: Early Takeaways from the First Movers

Build-to-rent single family has been among the most “talked about” but least “invested” in property types of the last few years

3 years ago

The Top-Selling Master-Planned Communities of Mid-Year 2023

Sales among the Top-50 communities of Mid-Year 2023 increased by 8% compared to the pace set in the first half of 2022.

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3 years ago

Harnessing Automation in Your Asset Management System

Asset management from an institutional perspective has several challenges when scaling from single assets to having several hundred

3 years ago

RCLCO Real Estate Sentiment Increases Slightly, Risk of an Impending Recession Remains

RCLCO’s Sentiment Survey has tracked real estate market conditions in the U.S. for over 10 years. Events of the last three years have generated unprecedented volatility in the index –…

3 years ago

ULI Forecast Shows Economic and Real Estate Slowdown Likely in Near Term with Recovery Expected in 2025

Prospects for the U.S. real estate market and economy changed little over the past six months, based on a survey of real estate economists.

3 years ago

Retail Reimagined: 8 Ways Retail Spaces are Being Converted and Revitalized

RCLCO has highlighted eight types of retail conversions across the United States which present more dynamic conversion opportunities

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3 years ago

Housing Progress Interactive Index

RCLCO and the ULI Terwilliger Center for Housing have collaborated to develop the Housing Progress Index

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3 years ago

Office to Residential: 6 Myths and Facts Regarding Market Dynamics of Conversions

Findings from RCLCO’s Market Feasibility Work on the Reuse of Office Buildings

3 years ago

RCLCO Neighborhood Atlas: Urban & Suburban Neighborhoods Interactive Map

Welcome to RCLCO’s neighborhood atlas, a new, interactive visualization of U.S. suburban & urban neighborhoods. The atlas classifies the urban and suburban neighborhoods in 60 of the largest metropolitan areas…

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3 years ago

2023 New Home Sales Trends

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The jump in new home sales this fall came as somewhat of a surprise, given how new home sales had been declining with the increase in mortgage interest rates throughout…

3 years ago

Time For an ESG Reset: Results from RCLCO’s Survey

The results suggest a mixed story, and, RCLCO believes, a general lack of appreciation for why ESG became a matter of discussion in the first place. This article attempts to…

3 years ago

The Top-Selling Master-Planned Communities of 2022

A lack of new home inventory despite the consistent and growing demand for new homes was generally cited as the reason for modest growth by MPC developers, with supply chain…

4 years ago

Office Games

Life sciences real estate has been a “hot” property type for the past decade—and even more since the pandemic. Will all the capital targeting the space be placed where it…

4 years ago

RCLCO Real Estate Sentiment Hits All-time Low as Recession Looms

RCLCO’s Sentiment Survey has tracked real estate market conditions in the U.S. for over 10 years. Events of the last three years have generated unprecedented volatility in the index –…

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4 years ago

2022 STEM Job Growth Index (STEMdex)

The annual STEMdex highlights metropolitan areas that are current strongholds of STEM employment and those that are likely to see positive growth in the coming years

4 years ago

Forecasters Downgrade Prospects for U.S. Real Estate Sector and Economy

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Real estate economists offered a less optimistic forecast of the near-term U.S. real estate and economic environment compared with six months ago, downgrading predictions for a wide range of economic,…

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4 years ago

Interactive Map of the Top-Selling Master-Planned Communities: 2013-2022

Following the release of RCLCO’s report, The Top-Selling Master-Planned Communities of 2021, RCLCO has created an interactive map tool that visualizes the sales at Top-Selling MPCs across the country from…

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4 years ago

The Top-Selling Master-Planned Communities of Mid-2022

A lack of new home inventory despite the consistent and growing demand for new homes was generally cited as the reason for modest growth by MPC developers, with supply chain…

4 years ago

Real Estate Market Sentiment Dips into Recessionary Zone Amid Economic Uncertainty

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-2020 due…

4 years ago

ULI Forecast: Positive for U.S. Real Estate Despite Higher Inflation, Interest Rates

Real estate economists predict solid performance by U.S. property markets over the next three years, according to the spring 2022 ULI Real Estate Economic Forecast.

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4 years ago

Affordable Housing – Stable Returns With Positive Social Impact

Affordable Housing – Stable Returns With Positive Social Impact March 1, 2022 By William Maher, Director of Strategy and Research, RFA; Scot Bommarito, Associate Originally published in PREA Quarterly Magazine…

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4 years ago

Financing Mechanisms: The Top-Selling MPCs of Year-End 2021

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4 years ago

Single-Family Residential Market Outlook

This year has the potential for housing markets to experience a less tumultuous year as compared to 2021, but some of the same challenges with meeting demand in 2021 will…

4 years ago

Despite a Slight Decline, Sentiment Regarding the Real Estate Market Remains Strong

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-2020 due…

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4 years ago

The Top-Selling Master-Planned Communities of 2021

A lack of new home inventory despite the consistent and growing demand for new homes was generally cited as the reason for modest growth by MPC developers, with supply chain…

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5 years ago

Life Sciences: Tapping into Biotech

In this article, we examine the main attributes of success in life sciences real estate—and explore whether all of the capital targeting the space will successfully find a home.

5 years ago

2021 STEM Job Growth Index

RCLCO, partnering with CapRidge Partners, has produced the 5th annual STEM Job Growth Index (“STEMdex”), once again highlighting several metro areas commonly recognized as STEM (aka Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics)…

5 years ago

Increased Inflation, Slower Growth in Coming Years

Increased Inflation, Slower Growth in Coming Years March 19, 2024 By William Maher, Director of Strategy and Research, RFA Originally published via UrbanLand Real estate economists predict continued improvement in…

5 years ago

Infographic: Which Olympic Games Host City Takes Gold?

RCLCO takes a look at real estate market performance in Olympic Games host cities & looks forward to the 2028 Los Angeles games.

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5 years ago

The Top-Selling Master-Planned Communities of Mid-Year 2021

The Top-Selling Master-Planned Communities of Mid-Year 2021 July 12, 2021 By Gregg Logan, Managing Director, RCLCO; Karl Pischke, Principal, RCLCO Download Publication In Summary The top-selling community in the country…

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5 years ago

The Changing Landscape of Housing: Low-Density Rentals

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RCLCO recently worked with the ULI Terwilliger Center for Housing to prepare Low-Density Rental Housing in America. The report highlights the emerging market segment of purpose-built and institutionally managed single-family…

5 years ago

As the Nation Reopens: Mid-Year Sentiment Soars in the Real Estate Industry

The results of RCLCO’s Mid-2021 State of the Market Sentiment Survey reflect strong optimism as vaccination rates approach herd immunity levels, business restrictions have been lifted, and a drop in…

5 years ago

Employment Growth, Rebounding GDP for U.S. Economy

Real estate economists predict markedly improved U.S. economic and property market conditions over the next three years, 2021 to 2023, compared with the forecast of six months ago, according to…

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5 years ago

RCLCO’s Data Visualization Toolkit & Insights for the Real Estate Industry

A question that we often hear is “How is technology and big data impacting the real estate industry?” We are aware that there are many emerging technologies and big ideas…

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5 years ago

The Top-Selling Master-Planned Communities of 2020

In this issue of The Advisory we discuss the spectacular pace of new home sales among the top master-planned communities this past year, despite the COVID-19 pandemic, and explore the…

6 years ago

2020, Year of the Suburbs: Flight from Urbanity or Accelerated Trends?

We examine some of the housing market influences of the coronavirus pandemic in the context of a strong housing market and consider which trends are truly related to the pandemic…

6 years ago

Which Grocery Store Anchor Drives the Strongest Apartment Performance? An Updated Look at the “Whole Foods Effect” Post-Amazon Acquisition

Over the past two decades, the presence of Whole Foods in a neighborhood has functioned as an unmistakable cultural signifier, reflecting an area’s affluence, lifestyle preferences, and evolution.

6 years ago

Growing Demand for Build-to-Rent Single Family Homes