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 ...
When Luis Aurelio Diaz returned to Colombia in 2003 to take the helm of his father’s real estate development company, he faced a stark reality. The Colombian economy was recovering from a devastating crisis that had reduced Grupo Empresarial Oikos to just 12 employees. Two decades later, under his leadership, the company has grown to ...
“Just look at the cars in the parking lots,” says Jesse Whalen, Vice President of The Office Group at Bull Realty, when asked about return-to-office trends. “People are back in the office. If there aren’t cars there, then maybe there’s another problem – and that’s also an opportunity for me to call that landlord.” This ...
In Manhattan’s commercial real estate market, conventional wisdom suggests that national credit tenants are the safe bet for recovery. But Showket Ahamed of Helmsley Spear, who built his own career from bootstrapped beginnings, sees a different path forward – one led by ambitious local enterprises and emerging entrepreneurs who could drive the market’s next phase. ...
When Michele Harrington completed her service maintaining C-130 engines in the United States Marine Corps, she knew two things: she had a fierce independent streak, and she wasn’t cut out for bureaucracy. What she didn’t know was that these traits would propel her to build one of Southern California’s most successful real estate enterprises. “I ...
In real estate finance, Northwind Group stands out for its strategic adaptability. Founded by Ran Eliasaf, a former Israeli Navy captain turned real estate executive, the firm has evolved from equity investments to establish itself as a significant lending platform, executing over $3.3 billion in loans. Eliasaf’s real estate career began after his military service ...
“Our market’s very healthy, but vacancy rate is low, and rents will continue to rise, and that just creates more demand for building,” explains Maxx Schindel, Associate Broker at CBRE specializing in industrial properties in the Minneapolis market. This assessment captures the current state of the Twin Cities industrial real estate landscape – a market ...
The real estate industry has dodged a major cybersecurity crisis so far – but that might be more curse than blessing, according to industry security expert Robert Siciliano. Despite handling billions in transactions and sensitive personal data, the industry remains strikingly vulnerable to modern cyber threats. “The real estate industry is one of those significantly ...
