The Minimum Lot Size and Billionaires In a city with 1 single-family lot, Elon Musk gets a lot of land for cheap. In a real city, the minimum lot size gives the rich more land for cheap, too.
How to Measure a Housing Market If you want to measure how a real estate market is doing right now, you should use rent. ... The most studied repeated-sales rent index is Zillow's ZORI.
Austin's Home Appraisals Match Zillow's Bravo, TCAD! You seem to be valuing residential property well.
A New Term: "Transactional Infrastructure" Transactional infrastructure are networks that connect to people. They are visible in your wallet: ID cards, money, bank cards, licenses, etc..
Adjustable-rate Mortgages Have a Billion Dollar Problem Adjustable-rate mortgages can never go below 2.75%. That's a problem and it is costing borrowers billions.
The "Evil Landlord" Explanation Understand how to lower the cost of rent, by thinking like an evil landlord.
Our Zoning Laws are "Anti-Rationing" Instead of rationing housing, we're "anti-rationing". Our zoning laws are the exact opposite of anything that makes sense.