Research & Insights
Data-driven intelligence for assisted living real estate. Demographics, climate, water, energy, and market analysis — built from real deal experience.
Arizona Water Supply: What Investors Need to Know
Colorado River cuts, city water security tiers, water rights valuations, and what it all means for ALF development and operating costs in Arizona.
The Insurance Crisis: How Climate Risk Is Reshaping CRE Values
From Florida's insurance collapse to California's wildfire premiums, climate risk is no longer theoretical. Here's how it's repricing commercial real estate nationwide.
Crawford Climate Score: Top 20 Markets for ALF Investment
Our proprietary resource-adjusted ranking of the best MSAs for assisted living investment. Water, energy, air quality, supply constraints, and demographics — scored and ranked.
Supply vs. Demand: The ALF Bed Shortage Nobody's Talking About
The industry delivers ~6,000 units per year against 70,000 needed. Construction starts are at a 15-year low. Here's why the math is inescapable.
Natural Resources & Real Estate: Land, Energy, and Air Quality
Solar ROI, farmland conversion, mining proximity effects, and how energy costs, air quality, and land scarcity directly impact ALF valuations.
The Derived Demand Curve: Age, Acuity, and Assisted Living
Age-to-ALF conversion rates, chronic disease prevalence, the caregiver gap, and why the 80+ cohort is the wealthiest generation in history.
Phoenix-Scottsdale: The #1 Market for ALF Investment
Why Scottsdale ranked #1 in Crawford's Climate Score: assured water supply, land scarcity moat, construction cost barriers, and unmatched demographic tailwinds.
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