Over the past decade, branded residential condominium projects have expanded beyond the traditional mixed-use hotel model. Increasingly, hospitality brands are licensing their names, standards and service platforms for use in standalone residential condominium developments that do not include a hotel…
In Part 1 of this series, I discussed why Texas is only partway toward a solution to the condominium supply problem, focusing on the need for continued statutory reform, including modernization of condominium development financing and greater flexibility in how…
In my prior post on the condominium supply problem, I focused on a central issue: the market is not failing to produce housing generally, it is failing to produce attainable housing at scale. Condominiums should be a key part of…
A recent article in The Atlantic titled “The Great American Condo Crisis” argues that the United States is simply not building enough condominiums and has never recovered after the 2008 Great Recession. That observation is correct for the overall national…
Tennessee developers continue to rely on the Horizontal Property Act (“HPA”) as a familiar framework for condominium ownership. The Tennessee Condominium Act of 2008 (“Condominium Act”) introduced a more modern alternative, offering expanded governance, financing, and consumer-protection tools. Both Acts…
As the demand for data centers continues to accelerate—driven by artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and energy-intensive digital infrastructure—developers are increasingly searching for flexible, efficient structures to plan, finance, and operate these complex facilities. Traditional regulatory platting can impose rigid boundaries,…
As Texas markets continue to evolve, so too do the legal and structural tools available to developers. One such tool—the site condominium—has gained traction as a creative alternative to traditional subdivision platting. While the concept has existed since the adoption…
In May, the Colorado General Assembly enacted H.B. 25-1272—the American Dream Act—to address one of the state’s most persistent housing challenges: the shortage of attainable, for-sale condominiums. For more than a decade, Colorado’s for-sale multifamily market has struggled under the…
When a developer encounters a landowner unwilling—or unable—to convey fee title, the project doesn’t have to stop. In Texas and other jurisdictions following the Uniform Condominium Act, the leasehold condominium provides a practical and financeable alternative for structuring mixed-use, residential,…
Most of us think of “architecture” as building design—the creative and technical work that shapes the spaces we inhabit. But community governance has an architecture too. Just as a building’s structure determines how people move through and use it, a…
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