Finance | Investment

How the “One Big Beautiful Bill” Rewrites Real Estate, Energy, and Infrastructure Timing When the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R. 1)  became law in mid-2025, it was sold as a simple tax extension. In practice, it marked the next phase of America’s regulatory supercycle —a decade-long series of mega-bills that keep rewiring how money, permits, and power flow through the built environment. A New Federal Baseline H.R. 1 made the 2017 tax cuts permanent, restored 100 percent bon

New York City didn’t “announce a boom.” It rewrote the rulebook that determines what is even possible  to build, where, and how fast. That’s why zoning text amendments matter more than ribbon cuttings: they quietly change the math for thousands of parcels at once. And in NYC, that quiet rewrite has a name — City of Yes . City of Yes isn’t one project, one neighborhood, or one developer. It’s a citywide zoning reset  that adjusts baseline feasibility: unit counts, allowed uses

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