Financing and Funding

The debt market has a transparency problem and most investors aren't even aware they're working with incomplete data. The delinquency rate is telling a story — just not the whole one.

If you look at any one variable affecting real estate deals right now, most of it still holds together. That's what makes this moment so easy to misread.

If you look at any one variable affecting real estate deals right now, most of it still holds together. That's what makes this moment so easy to misread.

Climate risk in real estate markets is starting to show up in ways most people aren’t fully accounting for yet. There’s a tendency right now to look backward for clarity.

People tend to still think about risk the way we experienced it in 2008. But the storm we're experiencing now is very different.

In a typical cycle, you get a shock. Markets absorb it. Lenders adjust. Regulators respond. Everyone recalibrates, and we move on. That sequential pattern has held for decades. The systems I'm [...]

Credit models are built on historical precedent. Climate patterns are beginning to break that precedent. The result can lead to a systemic repricing.

Climate finance is steadily moving from the margins into the center of financial conversation, influencing how people think about banking, spending, investing, and institutional responsibility.

Credit models are built on historical precedent. Climate patterns are beginning to break that precedent. The result can lead to a systemic repricing.

For decades, climate risk conditions were predictable enough that banks, insurers, and investors could model risk with relative confidence. But that foundation is beginning to shift.