/ MICROREPORT ·
2026
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This micro report analyzes how the structural tensions between supply and demand are redefining the construction and real estate sector, forcing a shift from a handcrafted, fragmented, and poorly scalable model to an industrial, connected, and performance-oriented logic.
The demand for housing is growing in volume and complexity, while the execution capacity is limited by scarce final land, long administrative timelines, lack of talent, and a highly fragmented production chain. The result: sustained pressure on prices, reduced accessibility, and increased operational risk.
At the same time, the regulatory and energy context accelerates a profound transformation:
Industrialization: offsite construction, modular systems, and MMC systems emerge as key levers to reduce timelines, variability, and errors, bringing factory logic to real estate development.
Mass rehabilitation: the aging of the residential stock and the European efficiency framework turn energy renewal into a structural necessity, driving standardized models with embedded financing and comprehensive management.
Servitization of the asset: value is no longer measured solely in m² but is evaluated in terms of energy, comfort, data, and user experience.
Data-driven operation: BIM, IoT, and digital twins allow buildings to be born with structured information and evolve towards predictive management models, optimizing OPEX and increasing asset resilience.
Additionally, we explore how startups and corporations are developing end-to-end platforms, plug & play components, and software layers that turn construction into a system, rehabilitation into a product, and buildings into services, aligning economic efficiency, sustainability, and scalability in a market that no longer competes to design better, but to deliver better.
Inaccessible housing and limited supply
The demand for housing is growing faster than the capacity to build, generating a structural deficit that pressures prices and excludes a growing part of the population from access to purchase or rent.
Soil and licenses
The scarcity of available land and the long processes of urban transformation and granting permits turn administrative time into cost, risk, and a structural brake on increasing supply.
Production capacity
A limited productive capacity - with an aging workforce, low standardization, and high fragmentation - prevents construction from scaling at the pace demanded.
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