Luxury Housing

Luxury Multi-Family Housing Boom Creates Scarcity in Other Markets

The Wall Street Journal examines one of the causes of the missing middle of the housing market—luxury multi-family developments pencil out while the supply of mid- and market-rate housing options dwindles.

August 18, 2015 - The Wall Street Journal

McMansion Construction

Los Angeles (Temporarily) Bans New McMansions

Concerns about out-of-character construction, much of it oversized, has led the Los Angeles City Council to prohibit construction of additional 'McMansions.' In some areas, all new development will be held up for two years.

April 23, 2015 - Los Angeles Daily News

How New York's Luxury Housing Market Stashes Anonymous Foreign Wealth

The New York Times ran a massive feature documenting the rise of foreign real estate investment in New York City, enabled by the anonymity of limited liability corporations.

February 9, 2015 - The New York Times

New 'Gold Rush' in Pittsburgh: Luxury Housing

Alina Dizik details what it takes to find a luxury home in the evolving Pittsburgh real estate market.

June 28, 2014 - Wall Street Journal

The McMansionization of New York

With New Yorkers, and foreigners of means, increasingly smitten with the views afforded by the city's sprouting luxury residential towers, developers and brokers have found a novel way to sell lower-floor spaces - as 'mansions'.

July 28, 2013 - The New York Times

FREE Course: Walkable City 1: Why Walkability?

After describing his path towards focusing on walkability as the essence of good planning, Jeff Speck marches through his five principal reasons for making more walkable places.

Reinventing Malls: Planning Alchemy—Turning Gray Fields Into Gold

The course focuses on the opportunities and imperatives that shape reinvention of mall sites.

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