Nick Durham - Thesis Driven

Where Real Estate Is Heading: Ten New Thesis Driven Workshops

A new lineup of upcoming sessions on AI, capital raising, student housing, placemaking, and the operating models reshaping commercial real estate

Brad Hargreaves May 6, 2026

Housing & Urban Policy

What's Happening in Local Land Use | Q1 2026

Tracking the past three months of notable land use and zoning decisions with Shovels Decisions

Brad Hargreaves, Morgan Friberg May 5, 2026

CapitalStack: Introducing the AI Lab

A weekly series on the AI tools and workflows reshaping real estate capital raising — starting with how to build an investor database in hours, not weeks.

Paul Stanton May 1, 2026

Nick Durham is a General Partner at Shadow Ventures, investing in frontier technologies reshaping the built world. He began as a homebuilder in his family construction business in Kentucky and later led research and communications at BuiltWorlds.

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Real Estate Investment

How We Made Beauty Expensive in Real Estate

And what it takes to bring it back

Nick Durham Feb 24, 2026