Tyler Williams

For decades, manufactured housing has excelled at producing lower-cost homes. What it has struggled to do is go vertical. Fact is, America’s most severe housing shortages are no longer in places where inexpensive land is abundant. They’re in high-cost metropolitan markets where making housing pencil often requires more homes on less land. That makes manufactured housing’s challenge – up to now – to develop and build multi-level homes everybody’s challenge.

Sam Mehrbod is a former Top 1% REALTOR in Vancouver, with deep knowledge of Property Technology. He has lead a series of other property technology companies in the past, and finishing a Ph.D. at U.B.C enabled him to learn the power of data analytics and the importance of clear data communication for Realtors. Sam is also Forbes Business Council Member and has a bachelor in computer Computer Science from Uni. of Southampton, UK. He speaks on many start-up panels and is an author of Forbes Magazine.

Last week, the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts struck down the Trump administration’s $100,000 fee for new H-1B visa applications, which many American employers utilize to recruit highly skilled foreign workers. Will the ruling, which grazes a highly sensitive policy debate over immigration pulsing through our nation’s politics, inject a needed adrenaline burst in a once-typically-reliable segment of home buyer demand, H1-B visa holders?