Now Available: The Opportunity Zones Playbook
Now Available: The Opportunity Zones Playbook
Almost every Opportunity Zone investment is a development deal: two or three years of construction risk, lease-up risk, and financing risk stacked on top of the tax play. One fund is built to do the opposite, offering stabilized assets, cash…
The Opportunity Zones Playbook, written by Jimmy Atkinson and featuring a foreword by US Senator Tim Scott, is the most thorough guide to OZ investing ever published. It arrives at a pivotal moment: with the passage of the One Big…
UPDATE JUNE 16, 2026: The Opportunity Zones Playbook is now available for purchase on Amazon. The Opportunity Zones Playbook by Jimmy Atkinson launches June 16. In this preview episode, Jimmy introduces the book, explains why he wrote it for the…
For months, a single provision in a popular bipartisan housing bill threatened to wipe out build-to-rent as a viable Opportunity Zone strategy. Last week, the U.S. House flushed it. The amended 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act strips the 7-year…
Most Opportunity Zone investors are looking at real estate deals. But Josh Phair built a precious metals vaulting business inside an OZ in Casper, Wyoming that just landed on the front page of The Wall Street Journal, alongside contract wins…
A tract-by-tract analysis of all 8,764 Opportunity Zones reveals that under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s tighter criteria, 23% of current OZs are fully ineligible for re-designation, another 17% are only partially eligible, and just 45% of total OZ…
The IRS has published its official list of census tracts eligible for nomination as 2027 Qualified Opportunity Zones — and the clock is now ticking for states to act. Jimmy Atkinson and Andy Hagans break down Revenue Procedure 2026-14, walk…
Short-term rental condos inside an Opportunity Zone present a structure most OZ investors haven’t encountered: individual condo unit ownership, purchased pre-certificate of occupancy, qualifying under original use — with no development risk. Heather Gustafson of CA South Development and Josh…
Many OZ developers make a single bet — one deal, one census tract — and hope it works. Barrett Linburg is making a different bet — that concentrating nearly 1,000 units across dozens of deals in a single Dallas neighborhood…
Editor’s note (April 8, 2026): This article originally referenced Revenue Procedure 2026-12. The IRS has since renumbered this guidance to Revenue Procedure 2026-14. All references in the article have been updated accordingly. The embedded video was recorded before this change…