Capital by Design
Eric BrodyLessons from a capital advisor and 20+ year real estate developer
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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The most expensive PSA mistake
You commit to close, or lose a deposit, before the risks that actually control the deal are known, bounded, or financeable.
Everything in a PSA exists to either protect you from that mismatch or accelerate it.
PSA Risk Is Tactical...
The Most Dangerous Assumption About “Economies of Scale” in Development
The most dangerous assumption developers make is believing multiple buildings behave like one business.
They don’t.
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I often hear:
“I need to keep my guys moving.”
That mindset never made sense to me. You don’t take deve...
When a Building Stops Being a Building — and Becomes a System
It’s the first Monday of 2026.
New mayor. New rhetoric. Same math.
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Mayor Mamdani wants:
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More affordability
More enforcemen...
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People with grit, curiosity, and real execution skills. We’ve paired content, technology, and training to compress what used to take decades into months and years. If you’re hungry to learn real estate, construction, development, finance—an...
Breaking headlines, misunderstood risk.
Buildings are designed to move. What matters isn’t settlement—it’s differential settlement. When movement is uniform, it’s expected and manageable. The real risk only appears when forces act unevenly. Engineering, monitoring, and remediatio...
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