By Daniel KaufmanWhen you’ve been in real estate as long as I have — through multiple cycles, multiple recessions, and more than a few false bottoms — you learn to appreciate the...
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📈 Where the Smart Money’s Going: The States Winning the VC Game (Per Capita)
By Daniel Kaufman | July 26, 2025As a real estate developer and investor, I spend a lot of time studying capital flows — not just where buildings are going up, but where...
AI, Tariffs, and Brain Chips: What Real Estate Investors Should Really Be Watching
By Daniel KaufmanGood morning.While most headlines are focused on earnings, interest rates, or Musk’s latest move, the real signals are happening at the intersection of...
📉 Tariffs, Zombies, and Trains: The Signals Investors Can’t Ignore
If you want to understand who’s really paying for Donald Trump’s tariffs, don’t look at Beijing, look in your driveway. Or more precisely, look at the earnings report from...
🚨 Powell Under Pressure, Meme Stocks Go Wild, and the $2B Crypto Pivot That’s Raising Eyebrows
It’s getting harder to ignore the tension between the Trump team and the Fed — and Scott Bessent just poured gasoline on the fire. The Treasury Secretary is now calling for a...
📦 Trade Volumes Shrink, Deficits Explode: A Tough Day for America’s Economic Outlook
Monday brought a double dose of bad news for anyone paying attention to trade flows, fiscal health, or the macro environment developers operate within. If you’re in real estate,...
📉 Powell, Tariffs, HUD, and the Trump Effect: What Real Estate Needs to Watch This Week
There’s no slow start to the week when Wall Street is bracing for a showdown between Trump and Powell, the EU is dusting off its tariff playbook, and HUD is floating rental...
📊 Charted and Mapped: Which U.S. Cities Are Actually Ready for the AI Boom?
We talk a lot about artificial intelligence reshaping the economy, but the reality is that AI’s geographic footprint looks more like a spotlight than a floodlight. According to a...
🧠 Why Family Offices Are Quietly Taking Over CRE (And What We’re Doing About It)
By Daniel KaufmanThere’s a quiet power shift happening in commercial real estate, and if you’re not watching the family offices, you’re missing the story.While institutions...