Don is CEO of DLP Real Estate Capital, a leader in single/multi-family RE brokerage, investment/asset/property mgt., construction, lending. getty I define leadership by results. Specifically, the capacity to influence others through inspiration and passion, generated by vision, ignited by a purpose — and produced by conviction. With a deeper bench of up-and-coming leaders, you can improve
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Ari Rastegar is CEO of Rastegar Property Company, a vertically integrated real estate company with a focus on value-oriented real estate. getty Success starts at the beginning. In the case of acquiring a lot or existing rental property, this idea equates to due diligence. I write a lot about due diligence, but a deeper dive can
Tim Curran is the CEO of Building Engines, the modern building operations platform for commercial real estate. Getty After months of being closed or at extremely low capacity, office buildings are cautiously moving towards re-occupancy. However, getting people back into buildings is a complex matter, and it’s made even more so given the severity of Covid-19.
Topeka anticipates workers will be enticed to relocate due to its affordability. Greater Topeka Partnership Topeka, Kansas is offering an enticing deal for remote workers to put down roots in the city. Through the state capital’s new Choose Topeka relocation initiative, employees who work remotely for companies based outside Shawnee County can receive up to
Opendoor cofounder and chief technology officer Ian Wong. Opendoor The market reacted kindly yesterday to news that Opendoor, a technology startup that lets customers rapidly sell their homes, will go public through a merger with a blank-check company. Shares of its soon-to-be acquirer soared 35% during normal trading hours, before falling 7% early on Wednesday.
In commercial real estate, buyers and sellers alike are often very eager to sign a contract and get the deal underway. However, this eagerness to close shouldn’t eclipse the need to properly review the terms of the sale. Before signing any contract, performing proper due diligence is critical so that both parties understand their obligations
Topline Stripe is offering a $20,000 bonus to employees who move away from San Francisco, New York City or Seattle but it comes with a 10% pay reduction, spokesman Mike Manning told Forbes, making the e-commerce and mobile payment processor the latest tech company to implement pay cuts for workers who chose to relocate to
This is what Bay Area commuters and residents have been living under as 35 major wildfires roar … [+] across the West. (Photo by Harold POSTIC / AFP) AFP via Getty Images Western states are not new to wildfires or their devastating impacts on area residents. What is new this season is that they’re occurring
Many vacation areas are now being looked at as places where remote workers want to live, getty The COVID-19 pandemic is propellingd many remote workers to flee crowded cities in search of more bucolic settings. Some of these destinations were, in fact, once considered vacation getaways. NPR’s Planet Money defines “zoom towns” as housing markets
Across the country, there is currently a limited supply of available homes on the open market. This gives prospective sellers the upper hand in real estate negotiations, so many homeowners are looking to increase the future value of their home even further. With a few strategic home improvement projects, you can not only increase your
Rendering of proposed eco-village in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Murray Associates & The Bridge Former NFL athletes Garry Gilliam and Karlos Dansby have joined forces in a national effort to revitalize underserved neighborhoods by transforming abandoned properties such as schools, shopping centers and warehouses into sustainable mixed-use eco-villages with housing, retail, co-working, urban agriculture, education centers and
HGTV’s Jasmine Roth MediaNews Group via Getty Images With productions delayed due to COVID, viewers are more excited than ever for new content, especially anything filmed before the pandemic. So, Help! I Wrecked My House couldn’t come at a better time. On the show, HGTV favorite Jasmine Roth of Hidden Potential and Rock The Block helps guide homeowners through fixing DIY projects gone
An office build-out at Miami’s new 830 Brickell office tower features transparent glass panels … [+] between work stations, an air purification system above each desk and plenty of live plants to boost oxygen levels. Iosa Ghini Associati How can office buildings be prepped for a post-COVID return by staff? Answers are almost as myriad
A unit in The Broad Exchange Building in Manhattan’s Financial District, likely to be one of the … [+] city’s last rental-to-condo conversions. The Broad Exchange Building It’s a common situation for New York City renters – their rental building is going condo (or, as was the case a couple of decades ago, co-op). But
More than 14 years in the making, ultra-luxury condominium building One Steuart Lane is getting closer to welcoming visitors in Spring 2021. Located in San Francisco’s lively and scenic Embarcadero neighborhood with views of the Bay Bridge and Ferry Building, One Steuart Lane, owned by Paramount Group, Inc., celebrated its official topping off in mid-August.
Another family moving into new home. getty The future of real estate was thrown into uncertainty by the pandemic, both from its direct effects on how we live as well as speeding up pre-existing trends. To understand the future, we must focus on what real estate does for people. Buildings are not constructed other than
The duplex apartment has three terraces. Elegran Actor Anthony Edwards, best known for roles in the movie Top Gun and TV series ER, is selling his prewar penthouse on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Edwards, who played Goose to Tom Cruise’s Maverick in the 1986 Air Force movie and Dr. Mark Greene on the first eight
Boise, Idaho ranked number one on WalletHubs best overall markets getty Here’s WalletHub’s 2020’s best real estate markets. WalletHub recently crunched the numbers on the best real estate markets comparing “300 cities of varying sizes across 24 key indicators of housing-market attractiveness and economic strength.” The current news of how well many markets are doing
Mortgage rates have plummeted yet again getty Interest rates have found a new low. This week, the 30-year fixed mortgage rate hit 2.86%, well below the 3% threshold that just a few months ago most people were saying would be the lowest they could reach. As we closed out August, interest rates had already come
getty The New York State Senate has once again placed New York City real estate directly in its sights. Last year the Senate considered a “pied-a-terre” tax bill, but the proposal was ultimately dropped in favor of an increased mansion tax, a far easier pill for buyers, sellers, developers, and real estate agents to swallow.