“For the first time living in San Diego, we didn’t have to live in a place where we didn’t want to be. We now get to live somewhere that we actually want to call home,” Christian Spicer, President of SDRE, recounts the words of tenants who moved into one of his company’s recently completed projects. ...
“Power is such a huge focus right now for everyone,” explains Todd Holley, Senior Vice President at Voit Real Estate Services, describing an emerging trend that’s reshaping industrial real estate in Southern California. “Data centers are just sucking up all this power. It’s really a key component for everyone involved in industrial real estate right ...
“What gets measured gets done. You can’t evaluate what you can’t measure.” – Larry Stone, Santa Clara County Assessor In Silicon Valley, where tech innovations and billion-dollar valuations dominate headlines, one of the most impressive success stories belongs not to a startup, but to a public servant who has quietly run a county department with ...
“We had no idea about the extent of non-compliance until we looked at the data. Suddenly we realized 60-70% of property owners weren’t meeting the insurance requirements in their management agreements.” – Ryan Letzeiser, CEO of Obie Insurance A silent crisis is brewing in the property management industry. While property managers focus on maintenance requests, ...
When Julie Schechter graduated from Brooklyn Law School during the recession 15 years ago, she jokes she “begrudgingly” took a job at her father’s small firm representing co-ops and condos because he was the only one hiring. That career move evolved into building one of New York City’s preeminent co-op and condo practices, now serving ...
When Jared Epstein looks at a neighborhood, he sees possibilities that others might miss. As President of Aurora Capital Associates, Epstein has built his reputation not just by developing luxury properties, but by reimagining entire districts – most notably in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District, which his firm helped transform from an industrial zone with a handful ...
When a historic South Shore residence sold for $1.44 million in December 2024, it set more than a neighborhood record – it challenged assumptions about luxury real estate markets in Chicago’s South Side. The sale, brokered by Jay Butts of Coldwell Banker’s Gold Coast office, exceeded the previous Jackson Park Highlands record by $500,000. For ...
In a mortgage industry facing high interest rates and affordability challenges, Jeff Bode, President and CEO of Click n’ Close, is creating solutions that could reshape how Americans finance their homes. As an early technology adopter in the mortgage space, Bode has spent decades developing systems that make mortgage origination more efficient, cost-effective, and accessible. ...
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020, Shiv Gettu and his co-founder Kendrick Bradley watched their thriving short-term rental business collapse virtually overnight. Within five days, they went from being “wildly profitable” to losing $100,000 a month. With landlords threatening legal action and no travelers booking their properties, they faced a business catastrophe. “We ...
“Even as a child, my mother would joke that my greatest interests were water and trees,” recalls Daniel Shindleman, managing director at Bridgemer. While others focused on oil reserves, he saw freshwater as the world’s most critical resource. This early insight would guide his approach to sustainable real estate investment. The Math Finally Adds Up ...
In the dynamic landscape of South Florida real estate, few stories embody the region’s transformative potential quite like that of Fabio Faerman, CEO of FA Commercial, the commercial team at Fortune Christie’s International Real Estate. From his beginnings as an architect in Argentina to becoming the number one top-producing agent at Fortune for seven consecutive ...
Naftali Credit Partners is making bold moves in the private credit space, with plans to raise a billion-dollar fund that would triple the size of its current lending platform. The ambitious expansion comes as the firm, led by veteran banker Glenn Grimaldi, positions itself at the intersection of traditional banking and alternative lending. The growth ...
“If an engineer like me didn’t even have smart home technology in their own home, what about everybody else?” – Dhaval Patel, Founder & CEO of Lotus A Personal Pain Point Sparks Innovation For Dhaval Patel, the inspiration for his innovative smart home device came from a personal experience that highlighted a widespread challenge. After ...
Terry Harris was playing in the NBA G League when he began fixing and flipping homes for supplemental income. Today, he leads the development of 580 units across Los Angeles as the CEO of Visionary Developments, creating thoughtfully designed workforce housing that challenges traditional approaches to affordable development. Harris’ transition from professional athlete to successful ...
