Q&A
Real questions from readers, answered by vetted real estate experts — investors, operators, and proptech builders.
Three hard screens, in order. Floor plate depth — past roughly 90 feet window-to-window and you get dark interiors no layout fixes. Plumbing — office cores cluster wet stacks centrally; residential wants them distributed, and re-running risers is where budgets die. Curtain wall — if it can't open or be cheaply…
Read more →It almost always takes a stack, not a single source: LIHTC equity, soft debt from the jurisdiction, a density bonus to add market-rate units that cross-subsidize, and increasingly a conversion or land contribution to reset basis. The single biggest lever, though, is time. Every month of entitlement delay is carrying…
Read more →Honestly? Probably not at sub-$300M. The rating process is expensive in both fees and the operational overhead it forces — you'll need reporting and risk infrastructure that's heavy for a fund your size. The math flips around $500M+, where the insurance capital it unlocks more than pays for the apparatus. Below that,…
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