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...
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📊 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...
The $25,000 Electric Truck That Might Actually Happen
Inside Slate Automotive’s scrappy, Bezos-backed plan to rethink the EV industry from the ground upBy Daniel KaufmanIn a space dominated by $80,000 trucks with touchscreens the...
📦 Self-Storage Is Having a Moment: $855M in Sales and Rising
In a high-rate, low-liquidity world, self-storage is quietly stealing the spotlight.Despite tighter capital markets, Q1 2025 saw $855 million in self-storage assets trade hands...
Wall Street Loyalty Oaths, $4 Trillion Tech, and Tariff Chaos: What Investors Should Really Be Watching
By Daniel KaufmanIt’s not every day that junior analysts are asked to swear fealty like it’s Wall Street’s version of “Succession”—but that’s where Goldman Sachs seems to be...
Copper Shock, Immigration Chill, and a Sovereign Wealth Retreat: What’s Moving Markets (and What It Means for Real Estate)
Back from the holiday and the headlines aren’t letting up.President Trump once again took center stage in the markets Tuesday—this time, not with broad tariff talk, but a...
Back From Break, and the Headlines Are Anything but Quiet
by Daniel KaufmanI’m back from a short break, and if you thought July might be a sleepy summer stretch, think again. We’ve got tariff threats, AI defections, shaky retail...
The Jobs Market Holds Steady—What It Means for Real Estate and the Fed
The numbers are in: U.S. employers added 147,000 jobs in June, and the unemployment rate ticked down to 4.1%.It wasn’t a blockbuster print—but it didn’t need to be. In a climate...