Los Angeles

Master plan developers are seeing increasing demand for agrihood communities, where residents can grow their own food in community gardens.

The firm adds a special situations debt group, led by managing director Donald Sheets.

Housing costs are being driven up by low supply, increased demand, poor wage growth and a lack of proper financing tools.

Former CEO Scott Watt will remain chairman of the investment and development firm.

Privacy laws are popping up in many states and the federal government is working on national legislation.

In the last 12 years, Airbnb has changed the travel industry and real estate market forever, and its IPO is perhaps the most anticipated offering of 2020, and yet, municipal lawmakers continue to battle about local STRs.

Demand is robust in the master-plan market, particularly for 55-plus active adult communities.

Investors tend to return to core markets during a downturn when prices drop and yields are better.