by American Heritage Lending | Jul 14, 2026
========================================================================AHL KEY TAKEAWAYS / TL;DR -- STANDARD ARTICLE ELEMENT========================================================================Placement: immediately after the article deck, before the body.One per...
by Eric Krattenstein | Jul 6, 2026
Key Takeaways ADU build costs typically run $150–$300 per square foot in 2026 with garage conversions from about $80,000 and detached new builds reaching $200,000–$400,000. The U.S. already has roughly 1.4 million single-family homes with ADUs and California now...
by Eric Krattenstein | Jul 2, 2026
Key Takeaways Build-to-rent starts fell 19% in 2025 to 68,000 units (from 84,000 in 2024) as financing costs squeezed marginal deals — but the strategy still pencils where the fundamentals hold. 82% of the BTR construction pipeline is in the Sun Belt, with Phoenix...
by Eric Krattenstein | Jun 29, 2026
Pennsylvania doesn’t fit the narratives that drive investor attention. It isn’t a Sunbelt growth story or a comeback story like Detroit or a yield-headline machine like Cleveland. It’s two major cities and seven secondary metros that have been...
by Eric Krattenstein | Jun 25, 2026
For most of 2025, the consensus was simple: inflation was cooling, the Fed would keep cutting, and rates would drift lower through 2026. That story is now wrong. The Fed held in June, the dot plot flipped toward a hike rather than a cut, and the higher-for-longer...
by Eric Krattenstein | Jun 18, 2026
Hurricane season started June 1, 2026 with NOAA forecasting below-normal Atlantic activity for the first time in four years. The Florida insurance market is simultaneously executing its first broad rate cuts since 2019. The three moves smart investors are making this...
