Although women working in construction numbered just 1.2 percent of the entire U.S. workforce in 2013, an increasing number of construction industry vendors that we do business with are headed by women or employ women. Our experience is apparently an …

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We will have a new post in May.

Nowhere is the nation’s affordable housing crisis more evident than in the rise of a phenomenon known as “ghost tenants,” or people attempting to live in government subsidized affordable housing, secretly, off lease. At Spring Garden Apartments, the number of …

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It’s been nearly a year since the inception of this blog. So I thought we’d take a look back at what we have shared with our readers and what our readers have shared with us. Since our first blog post …

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Please see our February 2016 blog post for an update A few months after Fairfax County gave Verizon approval in October 2005 to offer cable TV and Internet service in the county, a company representative visited my office and excitedly …

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We hope you are enjoying the holiday season. Our next post will be in January.

Due to passage of the federal solar Investment Tax Credit and improvements in manufacturing panels that capture energy from the sun, solar power costs have decreased significantly nationwide. However, here in Virginia, communities have yet to benefit. That could slowly …

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After we became friends while attending college in upstate New York, my best man and fellow real estate developer, William D. Manns Jr., would always introduce me as: “Jube Shiver, the only person I know who has a street named …

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We are off this month. Hope everyone enjoyed their summer. Our regular blog posts will return in October.

Last Spring, I traveled to London, Paris, and Amsterdam for vacation but also managed to spend some time comparing U.S. housing to homes that folks live on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. First stop London. I was fortunate …

Across the Pond… Read More »