Last week was quite busy, so for this post, I decided to turn to Copilot to help me produce the output. Over the past year, our acquisitions at CWS have been heavily concentrated on properties in the Houston area. Of course,
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Hot and Hotter
I wanted to return to the subject of housing and share some of the latest graphs related to the single-family and multifamily markets. I’ll start with the single-family sector.
Demand continues to be strong but it has decelerated from the torrid Covid-catalyzed pace of 2020.
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Lessons from NMHC and Melbourne
Five‑Set Tennis, Five‑Set Markets: Lessons from NMHC and Melbourne
For more than 25 years, the National Multi-Housing Council meeting has been one of my annual rituals—a place to take the pulse of the apartment market by listening to smart people, absorbing the mood of owners,
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2025—A Year of Impact, Presence, and Woah
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Gary Carmell
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Gary Carmell
Posted in A.I., Apartments, Economy, Interest Rates, News, Personal, Tennis, Travel
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If there’s one word that keeps returning to me this year, it’s “woah.” Not the “woe” of victimhood, but the woah of awe—the inhale that invites presence, humility, and gratitude. 2025 brought plenty of reasons to pause: service that nourished the soul,
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Pendulum Interrupted
The U.S. apartment market has gone through a very intense swing from the greatest market in my life in 2021 and early 2022 to a far more challenging one from 2023 through today. The pendulum swung far to the left in the wake of low interest rates,
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Emily Dickinson - Hope Is Not a Strategy
I many times thought Peace had come
When Peace was far away—
As Wrecked Men—deem they sight the Land—
At Centre of the Sea—
And struggle slacker—but to prove
As hopelessly as I—
How many the fictitious Shores—
Before the Harbor be—
-Emily Dickinson
Every so often I will read poetry to tap into timeless thoughts and wisdom.
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London 2024 - Insurance, Nick Cave, and The King
Last week I was in London for the fourth consecutive year to meet with some of our insurance carriers. Our program has become increasingly complex as this year we have 43 different companies providing coverage for our property program.
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CWS Capital Partners - Our Investors Are Our Partners
CWS Capital Partners is a real estate investment management firm that was founded in 1969. We own operate, manage and develop in excess of 20,000 apartment units throughout the country primarily in the Sunbelt, with a value, at the time of this writing , in excess of $7 billion dollars.
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R.I.P. Bill Williams
The world lost a force of nature in the passing of Bill Williams last week. Bill co-founded CWS in 1969 with Jim Clayton after the two of them met at an Indian Guides outing, and both came to learn that they had read the same book about how to create wealth in real estate.
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Powell Pivot III: Too Little Too Late for Overleveraged Apartment Owners?
Powell did it for the third time. He proved for the third time that you should listen to him carefully until he does something completely different, and then you should listen to him again. After raising rates aggressively starting in April 2022, after he had said that the Fed wouldn’t raise rates until the end of 2023 at the earliest,
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