Sep 11, 2025. Oklahoma Real Estate Hall of Fame reception. The Oklahoma Real Estate Hall of Fame launches Oct. 1 with Mark Beffort and Mo Anderson as its first inductees at UCO’s Commercial Real Estate Summit.

September 4, 2025. The labor behind real estate. Labor Day highlights the workforce behind real estate, where property management demands constant attention, repairs and dedication beyond investment returns.

August 28, 2025. The invisible hand of zoning. When most people think of real estate, they think of bricks and mortar. They picture homes, shopping centers, or office towers.

Aug 21, 2025. A major step for real estate in Oklahoma. This fall marks a milestone for higher education in our state and for the real estate profession.

August 15, 2025. It’s about the people. I’m passionate about how towns are planned, how neighborhoods come together, and how great public spaces invite us to gather.

Aug 7, 2025. Urbanism vs. new urbanism. Julie and I just returned from a few days in Panama City, Florida. Not to be confused with the tourist-heavy Panama City Beach, this is the historic downtown.

Jul 31, 2025. The risk and reality of retail closures. From a real estate perspective, retail—including restaurants and bars—has always been one of the riskiest tenant categories.

Jul 24, 2025. Where placemaking meets paradise. Most people come to Seaside, Florida, for the beach. I come for the sidewalks. Photo credit to Jonathan Melville.

Jul 17, 2025. How civic buildings shape our cities. This week, I had the privilege of attending the ribbon-cutting ceremony for Edmond’s new City Hall—this time not as a councilmember, but as a citizen and former public servant.

Jul 10, 2025. Every 4th of July, our tradition begins the same way—on the rooftop of The Chapman House in downtown Edmond.

July 4, 2025. What happens when a suburb decides it wants something more—more connection, more walkability, more life in its downtown core?

Jun 26, 2025. As the final seconds ticked off the clock and the confetti fell after Game 7, my thoughts went somewhere unexpected: real estate.

Jun 20, 2025.Helping renters is a noble goal—especially in high-cost markets like New York City. But good intentions don’t always lead to good outcomes and sometimes lead to unintended consequences.

June 12, 2025. A quiet epidemic is growing in our communities — not of crime or poverty, but of loneliness. It crosses age, income, and geography. And while we often treat loneliness as a mental health issue, it’s also, perhaps surprisingly, a land use issue. 

Jun 5, 2025. Bloomsbury is a walkable, intellectual rich destination in London. For the past eleven years, I’ve led groups of University of Central Oklahoma students on a research and study tour of London.

May 29, 2025. The COVID-19 pandemic didn’t just reshape how we work and live—it fundamentally altered the relationship between landlords and tenants.

May 22, 2025. UCO London Study Tour 2025. I am writing this from the Grand Rotunda in the British Museum. The 2025 UCO London Study Tour is in full swing.

May 15, 2025. I’m writing this week’s column from a transatlantic flight aboard a Boeing 777 bound for London.

May 8, 2025. Rent-versus-buy debate followed a fairly simple formula.

May 1, 2025. For generations, the “starter home” was a rite of passage—an attainable first step into homeownership, often modest in size and price but full of promise.