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Two U.S. District Court decisions

Two significant U.S. District Court decisions were handed down in the first week of September 2025. One concerns the use of the U.S. military for domestic policing. The other ruling addressed the revocation of federal research grant funding from a university.

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ARES Urbanexus Update #176

The American Real Estate Society (ARES) distributes this periodic newsletter, which features real estate-related news and information curated by H. Pike Oliver.

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California Forever update

California Forever has revised and reprioritized its plans for a large-scale master-planned development located approximately 55 miles northeast of San Francisco and 40 miles southwest of downtown Sacramento. 

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ARES Urbanexus Update #175

The American Real Estate Society (ARES) distributes this periodic newsletter, which features real estate-related news and information curated by H. Pike Oliver.

NOTE: Due to summer travel the next issue will be available in September 2025.

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ARES Urbanexus Update #174

The American Real Estate Society (ARES) distributes this periodic newsletter, which features news and information about real estate and metropolitan development curated by H. Pike Oliver.

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ARES Urbanexus Update #173

The American Real Estate Society (ARES) distributes this monthly newsletter, which features news and information about real estate and metropolitan development curated by H. Pike Oliver.

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ARES Urbanexus Update #179
ARES Urbanexus Update #179

The American Real Estate Society (ARES) distributes this periodic newsletter, which features real estate-related news and information curated by H. Pike Oliver.

ICE acquiring mega warehouses
ICE acquiring mega warehouses

ICE is acquiring and turning mega warehouses into detention centers.

Top-heavy consumer spending in the USA
Top-heavy consumer spending in the USA
Where investors own larger shares of single-family homes in the USA
Where investors own larger shares of single-family homes in the USA

Small‑scale owners hold three to five times as many homes as large‑scale operators. This runs counter to the popular narrative that institutional investors are the primary force reshaping single‑family housing markets.

Statements by POTUS47 at the World Economic Forum
Statements by POTUS47 at the World Economic Forum

Statements about U.S. spending, deficit reduction, inflation, and regulatory reform were false, misleading, and unsupported.

Understanding the “Donroe Doctrine”
Understanding the “Donroe Doctrine”

How POTUS47’s Venezuela strike is redifining hemispheric intervention by the United States of America