Stephen Keighery began his career far from the bayous of Louisiana. Originally from Australia, he was a founding partner at hipages Group, a two-sided marketplace that connected contractors with homeowners. That early experience in tech laid the groundwork for a striking pivot. Today, as the founder of Home Buyer Louisiana, Keighery is applying his marketplace ...
“The American Dream is evolving,” says Richard Ross, CEO of Quinn Residences, a leader in the rapidly growing build-to-rent (BTR) housing sector. “Home ownership isn’t the ultimate goal for many Americans anymore. The path of going to college, getting a job, finding a partner, buying a house, and living there for 30 years just isn’t ...
“These are baby boomer Bitcoins,” says Sean Seward, describing the thousands of vacant lots scattered across Florida’s landscape. As a realtor with Keller Williams Island Life Real Estate specializing in vacant land sales, Seward has tapped into a little-known investment niche that’s gaining significant traction on social media platforms. The Origins of Florida’s Lot Parceling ...
“Wellness real estate is the fastest growing segment of the global wellness space,” says Ryan Hinricher, founder of Oak Avenue Real Estate and the innovative home building brand Sunworth Homes. “It’s disheartening to see national builders commoditizing housing with a ‘here’s a box you’re living in’ approach. Your home, where you’ll spend the majority of ...
“I’ve always appreciated real estate because I can walk up to a property and touch the front pillar—it’s tangible. I understand there are only a few variables affecting value, whereas the stock market or more complex investments like syndications are areas I don’t comprehend as thoroughly,” says Ashton Hines, real estate agent with Keller Williams ...
“Today’s high-net-worth buyers are truly global citizens. It’s now common for someone to maintain a beautiful home in London, a farm in Tuscany, and a townhouse in Tokyo, continuing their life and business seamlessly across continents,” explains Michael Jalbert, CEO of Forbes Global Properties. This new pattern of global wealth is reshaping luxury real estate, ...
“The criminals are always one step ahead. With AI technology, anyone can be impersonated through video and voice. We’ve seen how easily these tools can be weaponized for fraud, and in real estate, where people’s life savings are at stake, we can’t afford to be reactive,” says Robert Ott, Founder and Designated Broker of RainTown ...
“Our mission is simple: automate the back office for franchise brands,” says Sanjay Mahalingam, Founder and CEO of Spacetil. In an era where multi-location businesses struggle with fragmented systems and operational inefficiencies, Spacetil emerges as a game-changing solution. This AI- native ERP platform is transforming how franchisees, private equity groups, and real estate investors manage ...
“I became deeply frustrated with the role of intermediaries in real estate deals,” explains Blake Owens, Founder and Principal of Augustus and the innovative platform Agrippa. “There are excellent brokers, but many would simply copy and paste our pitch deck into an email blast, disappear for months during due diligence, and then return at closing ...
“We’re a Zero Energy Ready production builder, and we’re the only Zero Energy Ready production builder in Connecticut,” explains Jason Helton, Realtor and Sales Consultant at EG Home. In a market where energy efficiency and maintenance-free living are increasingly in demand, this veteran-owned company has positioned itself at the forefront of Connecticut’s sustainable housing movement. ...
“Price is the most important part of your marketing. You have to price the property correctly,” says Camilo Perez, Broker of Record at Florida Flat Fee Homes, and CEO and Broker Owner of Home Sold Realty, Prime Luxury Estates, and Prime Home Realty Group, who has built a thriving business challenging traditional real estate commission ...
“After a disaster, there’s intense attention and focus for about a month, and then it completely disappears. The real challenge is the recovery period that follows,”says Sara Skelton, Realtor at EXP Realty and host of The LA Real Estate Podcast. When the devastating Altadena fire swept through Northeast Los Angeles, Skelton found herself in a ...
“When you show a property at the right time of day, when the elk are bugling or deer are bedded in the grass, buyers don’t just see a house, they see their future,” says Ashley DiPrisco, Associate Broker at Jackson Hole Sotheby’s International Realty, who has mastered the art of emotional connection in one of ...
“A picture is worth a thousand words,” says Tudor Vasiliu, Founder and Director of Panoptikon, an architectural visualization studio that has transformed how real estate developers and architects communicate their vision for nearly two decades. “Architecture is a technologically intensive field, but what we do is translate that technology into a language of beauty that ...
“We’re witnessing what I would call a quiet surge of ultra luxury home buyers, driven primarily by flight to quality, both in where they spend their time and the quality of area where their family will gather,” says Jonathan Spears, founder of Spears Group and Compass. At just 33 years old, Spears has established himself ...
