April 21, 2022. Overlay zones have the potential to be very effective governmental regulatory tools.

April 14, 2022. PUDs may be used to permit new or innovative concepts in land utilization, master-planned communities, or mixed-use developments that other districts do not easily accommodate.

April 8, 2021. Many communities that were built around child-rearing now have fewer children in them.

April 7, 2022. The American alley is a key component in the revitalization of urban communities and building urban fabric.

March 31, 2022, Attendance at home and garden shows around the country is setting records coming out of the pandemic as more people than ever are buying and remodeling homes to fit their ever-changing needs.

March 24, 2022. Oklahoma City is in the spotlight this week for a diverse, multidisciplinary, action-oriented group of individuals working to build places people love.

March 17, 2022. My company has been in the short-term-rental, or STR, business for over 20 years – long before Vrbo and Airbnb existed.

March 10, 2022. The invasion of Ukraine by Russia will have consequences to the U.S. economy, and issues with the U.S. economy will have consequences to real estate investments around the world.

March 3, 2022. Oklahoma City recently lost a leader in the real estate industry. Catherine Montgomery’s legacy will continue to be seen in the many historic properties she helped save.

February 24, 2022. Julie and I take short spontaneous trips to clear our heads and gather ideas and concepts to bring home to implement in our community.

February 17, 2022. People invest in real estate for different reasons.

February 10, 2022. Today’s brand of boutique hotel is largely characterized by its smaller size (10-100 rooms), personalized service, and local personality, which can vary dramatically depending on where the property is located.

February 3, 2022. Making it easier to move cars around has led to an overemphasis on road construction that doesn’t seem to be working.

January 27, 2022. Technology, innovation, and COVID-19 may be changing the three most important words in real estate.

January 20, 2022. Reflecting on the recent sale of my first investment property, a commercial real estate portfolio that has exemplified diversity and repositioning.

January 13, 2022. Recently, the Urban Land Institute issued a report that caught my eye.

January 6, 2022. nflation will be the story of 2022. Inflation will be the catalyst that creates the next story – the Fed’s attempt to gradually increase interest rates to curb the runaway inflation. Both of these will lead to my main prediction of 2002 – increases in rents for both residential and commercial product.

December 16, 2021. America’s growing affordability housing gap is forcing many people to reassess the traditional single-family home and look at mobile home communities as an alternative.

December 9, 2021. There is a shortage of more than 7.2 million affordable rental homes for extremely low-income renter households, defined as those with incomes at or below the poverty level or 30% of their area median income. To make matters worse, the lack of affordable for-sale homes drives up rents and increases prices of multifamily investme[...]

December 2, 2021. My international visitors were very impressed with the response of the Edmond Fire and Police departments, EMSA, and Edmond Animal Control.