The headlines this week might seem distant from the ground-level work of building and investing in real estate—but ignore them at your peril. A high-stakes legal showdown over...
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📉 When Growth Slows and Policy Whiplash Returns: What Real Estate Investors Should Be Watching
We’re halfway through 2025, and the U.S. economy is flashing some familiar warning signs. Growth has slowed, consumer spending is softening, and the Federal Reserve just made it...
What Northern Virginia Got Right — and What the Next Wave of Data Center Development Must Learn
By Daniel KaufmanKaufman Development | Kaufman Family OfficeThere’s no denying the financial impact data centers have had on Northern Virginia. Loudoun County didn’t just embrace...
Flat Is the New Up: Why Stability Might Be CRE’s Biggest Win of 2025 (So Far)
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...
📈 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,...