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Developers obsess over rates, rents, and construction costs. But in 2026, one variable increasingly separates winners from losers : time. Permit time. Review time. Re-submittal time. Hearing time. Because time is carrying cost—and carrying cost is margin. That’s why a quiet shift matters: cities are piloting AI-assisted permitting and plan review to reduce backlogs and accelerate housing delivery. What AI can actually do ( and what it can’t ) AI is not a magic stamp that app

The loudest housing debates aren’t always about a single tower, a single block, or a single rezoning. More and more, the fight is over the operating system  of the city: citywide zoning packages that tweak the rules everywhere, unlocking “small” amounts of additional housing across thousands of lots. That’s the “ City of Yes” template —and it stays a core conversation because it touches every neighborhood, shifts what’s legal by default , and rewrites baseline feasibility for

The quiet power shift in commercial real estate (CRE) isn’t just about interest rates, cap rates, or vacancy. It’s about who now controls the debt dial. As bank lending standards tightened after 2020, private credit stopped being the “ alternative ” and moved directly into the center of the capital stack. What started as gap-filling mezzanine and bridge capital has scaled into senior and whole-loan territory—redrawing pricing, covenants, and execution speed across the market