Image Host Hotels & Resorts is using AI-powered building analytics, climate risk modeling, and emerging technology investments to improve efficiency and strengthen resilience across its hotel...

Image Charmaine Brown says workforce strategy should be viewed as a business driver tied directly to performance, resilience, and long-term...

The Northeast isn't weathering storms the way it used to. Nor'easters hit harder and stick around longer, hail shows up in months it didn't used to show up in, and freeze-thaw cycles have grown more erratic since 2015. Homeowners are noticing. So are contractors, whose call volumes now track weather events almost in real time, with a lag of maybe forty-eight hours. That pressure landed on a housing stock...

Image Woody highlighted the challenge of “creating and leading an organization in a world that doesn’t yet...

A rapidly aging U.S. population is accelerating demand for smart home technology that allows older adults to remain in their homes longer. Financing options, including the tapping of home equity, are emerging to help pay for it. Roughly 11,000 Americans turn 65 each day and about one in four U.S. residents is now at least 60 years old — with most people over 50 expressing a preference to stay in their...

As public homebuilders work to reduce their spec inventory and strike price-pace-and-incentives balances that best fit their land positions and operational fortes, Century Communities strategists are betting they can win on underpricing peers and rebuilding margins on the back of operational excellence and production velocity. So while other top-15 ranked public builder competitors have chosen a binary...

The Changing Landscape “This is not a forecast. A forecast is a prediction, the validity of which my ego and I are professionally responsible for. What I offer here is speculation – something that is likely enough to write about but not so likely that my ego hangs in the balance.” – George Friedman “When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you, sir?” – attributed to John...

A third go at trying to reboot starter-home construction in Minnesota is on life support at the state Legislature, with supporters scrambling to revive it before the session ends. High-profile zoning reform bills failed in a House committee and missed key Senate deadlines late last month, potentially dooming the effort as had happened over the past two years. The bipartisan Starter Homes Act –...

Brandon Wells, president and CEO of The Group Real Estate, doesn’t buy into the fear that artificial intelligence will replace real estate agents (AI). But he also doesn’t buy into most of the AI tools being sold to brokerages today. “I think there’s a lot of AI slop out there,” Wells said on the latest episode of the RealTrending Podcast with host Tracey Velt. “I think there’s a lot of...

Maybe your kitchen is looking a little dated or lackluster. Or maybe you’d just like to switch up its style. Whatever your motivation, you don’t need to dive into a major kitchen renovation to make significant upgrades. Here are 10 simple yet strategic ways to give your kitchen a fresh new look and...