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Supporting $200B+ in projects since 2017, we empower developers to eliminate costly silos and deliver complex projects with unparalleled speed and intelligence.

08/06/2026

A city votes YES on housing. Everyone celebrates. Then… nothing gets built for five years. Why?

walks through the four hurdles between approval and move-in day:

1️⃣ Zoning — land that’s buildable in every physical sense, but off-limits by rule. Redesignation alone can take 1–2 years.

2️⃣ Financing — affordable projects often need 7–12 funding sources to close. One investor pulls out, and the whole capital stack can unravel.

3️⃣ Community review — hearings that can stretch on for years, with the costs landing on the people still waiting for housing.

4️⃣ Permitting — clear every hurdle above, then get in line at City Hall. Backlogs in some cities add 12–18 months.

Stack them together and five years is what “everything going right” looks like.

The takeaway: these are policy problems — and policy problems have policy solutions. But you can’t fix what you can’t name.

Which hurdle should we break down next? 👇

08/04/2026

“Fine, eliminate parking minimums… but the US has no transit. Where do the cars go?”

You asked. This one’s the answer. 👇

Here’s the trap: mandated parking raises costs → higher costs kill density → low density can’t fund transit → no transit “justifies” more mandated parking. A chicken-and-egg loop written into 1960s zoning codes.

But the data from cities that dropped the mandate is clear: streets didn’t flood with cars. Developers still built parking, just the amount the project actually needed. In Minneapolis, most new developments still included parking after the mandate ended. Units got more affordable because renters stopped paying for empty spaces.

And transit can come after density: DC built Metro into a finished city. Medellín ran gondolas up hillsides cars couldn’t reach. Houston redesigned its bus network and ridership jumped 20%.

The goal was never zero parking. It’s parking as a market decision, not a mandate everyone pays for whether they use it or not.

responds to your comments from Part 1. Disagree? That’s what the comments are for. 👇

08/03/2026

Salt Lake City: one of the fastest-growing markets in the West. Tech, healthcare, finance. A supply wave just hit.

$75M in. $3.5M NOI. Worth $70M today.

At 3% rent growth? Worth $76M in 3 years.

HOLD — for now. Buy SLC or wait for more distress?

07/27/2026

Fastest-growing container port on the East Coast. 3.9M SF absorbed in Q1 alone.

The macro story is immaculate. The land basis isn’t.

$65M in. $3M NOI. Worth just $55M.

Don’t be fooled by the sweetness. This deal is DEAD. 💬 Wait for land costs to drop?

07/23/2026

There’s a hidden line item inflating rents in almost every American city — and most people have never heard of it.

Parking minimums require developers to build parking before they can build housing. The math is brutal: surface spaces can run $5K–$10K each, underground spaces $30K–$50K. On a 100-unit project requiring 150 spaces, that cost lands in every tenant’s rent whether they own a car or not.

The knock-on effects hit development feasibility hard:
 📐 Land that could be housing becomes mandated parking 📉 Small infill projects die in the pro forma before they start 🏗️ Supply shrinks, prices climb

Cities like Minneapolis, Buffalo, and San Jose have eliminated parking minimums citywide and more housing got built.

JB breaks down one of the least examined mandates in American urban policy. Watch to the end for what happened when cities dropped the requirement.

07/22/2026

Northspyre is going international. No passport required. 🌍

Introducing Multicurrency Project Support — manage every project in its local operating currency, keep financial context consistent across workflows, and filter portfolio views by currency.

Join our live launch webinar Tuesday, August 4 at 1:00 PM ET for the full walkthrough. Can't make it? Register anyway and we'll send the recording.

Register here: https://events.zoom.us/ev/AhAyQCtI4_Yx2asWEO8CcEENJX6e-AYAnfKskHOkQioztY3WulHE~AkHb9Myu3d7zkFucypeREvAi6n6EELOfCwM1r5wqCutwnTtZtpC2vzLyDQ

07/20/2026

Tampa absorbed a record supply wave. Construction is finally slowing — and that’s where this story gets interesting.

$56M in. $3M NOI. Worth $55M today. Break-even.

At 3% rent growth? Worth $60M in 3 years.

HOLD — for now. 💬 Buy Tampa now or wait?

07/08/2026

The fastest-growing city in America grew from 17,000 to 65,000 people in five years. It’s not a metro.

It’s not a suburb. It’s an exurb — and it’s not alone. Since 2020, the exurbs — small cities up to 60 miles beyond the major metros — have outgrown cities and suburbs alike, with housing development running 3–8× the national rate.

Swipe for the full breakdown → what an exurb actually is, who’s moving, where it’s happening, and why the development math pencils.

From Kelsi Borland’s latest for Northspyre Insights.

Follow Northspyre for weekly CRE insights. Is your pipeline pointed where growth is actually going? ↓

07/06/2026

Columbus just landed Intel's multibillion-dollar chip plant and e-commerce demand is surging. But the construction pipeline is massive — and rents need to grow 15–20% for the deal to pencil.

We ran a 600K SF industrial building: $90M in, $4.7M NOI, worth $79M today. At $10 PSF rents? Worth $93M.

This is a HOLD — for now.

Is Columbus the next logistics powerhouse? 👇

07/01/2026

Everyone still calls industrial a warehouse play. The capital moved on a while ago. 🏭

Ecommerce made industrial the darling of CRE — but that boom has stabilized. So where’s the money going now? Into four niches that were written off decades ago, and the demand in each is strong enough to justify new construction:

→ Manufacturing — ~$1.8T in reshoring investment announced this year

→ Data centers — ~$3T buildout expected by 2030, sub-2% vacancy

→ Energy infrastructure — $1.5T poured into power last year

→ Cold storage — doubling to ~$125B within the decade

As office and multifamily pipelines tighten, this is where the shovels actually make sense.

Swipe through for the full breakdown → 📊

Which of the four are you betting on in your market?

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