Open houses on the Central Jersey Shore right now can feel like a competition. Twenty people moving through a property on a Sunday afternoon, multiple offers, sellers who have options. For buyers who came in expecting to take their time and negotiate, it can be a disorienting experience. But Carly Ringer, a real estate agent ...
When a family member passes away and leaves behind a property, most heirs assume the hard part is the grief. The house, they figure, is an asset. It has value. It can be sold or kept, and eventually everything gets sorted out. What few people anticipate is that the property can sit in legal limbo ...
Buying an existing property feels like the safe play. The building is already there. You can see it, inspect it, and model the cash flow based on what it is already doing. But according to Culby Culbertson, founder of Culbertson Holdings, that perceived safety comes at a cost, and in many cases it is a ...
The contrast is jarring. A publicly traded company managing billions in real estate assets across multiple countries operates with no meaningful digital footprint, no systematic investor acquisition process, and no corporate marketing infrastructure – yet it is actively trying to raise capital in 2026 from American retail investors who expect to research companies online before ...
The acronym ESG was everywhere in commercial real estate just a few years ago. Sustainability reports, carbon targets, and green building certifications dominated boardroom agendas and investor conversations alike. Today, that language has largely disappeared from the same rooms. Not because the underlying pressures have gone away, but because the framing was never quite right ...
The first time a real estate professional hears “I found you through ChatGPT” from a potential client, the reaction is usually surprise mixed with confusion. They didn’t advertise on ChatGPT. They didn’t optimize for it. They may not have realized people were using AI platforms to find real estate agents at all. But it’s happening ...
When a self-managed HOA board shops for community association software, the first instinct is almost always the same: find the cheapest option that covers the basics. It makes sense. Board members are volunteers spending their neighbors’ dues. Cost sensitivity is baked into every decision. But industry experience suggests this approach creates a pattern that costs ...
Every year, a new wave of agents decides they want to move into luxury real estate. They update their bios, adjust their price point targets, and start showing up to open houses in nicer clothes. Most of them are back working the mid-market within six months – and not because the market rejected them. It ...
Rates are not the problem. The problem is that too many borrowers are still thinking about rates the way they did in 2021, and that mindset is creating friction in deals that should be getting done. Culby Culbertson, founder of Culbertson Holdings and a capital markets broker with close to $550 million in closed loans ...
The structural pressures reshaping real estate – brokerage-platform deals, AI-driven marketing tools, and shifting listing distribution models – are forcing independent boutique brokerages to make a choice: adapt proactively or react defensively. Courtney Poulos, founder and CEO of ACME Real Estate in Los Angeles, has made her decision. After 15 years building ACME as an ...
The Interface Student Housing Conference wrapped up in Austin, Texas, bringing together approximately 1,500 industry professionals for what Teddy Abdelmalek calls “the Super Bowl of student housing.” As Senior Vice President of Business Development at HH Red Stone, Abdelmalek compiled insights from 60 meetings over three days, capturing candid conversations from the conference floor about ...
The distressed real estate market in New York and New Jersey is producing some of the most complex financing situations in recent memory. Partner disputes, stalled construction projects, technical payment defaults, and foreclosure proceedings are landing on lenders’ desks at a rate that has left many institutional players stepping back entirely. For borrowers caught in ...
Empty nesters represent one of the most challenging segments in today’s residential real estate market – not because they lack purchasing power, but because their expectations often disconnect from what’s actually available. This gap is constraining housing inventory across suburban markets, creating a ripple effect that impacts buyers and sellers at every price point. The ...
The question companies ask economic developers has fundamentally changed. Twenty-five years ago, the first thing prospects wanted to know was simple: “How much money are you going to give me?” Today, that question rarely comes up first. Instead, companies lead with two different priorities: “How can you fill my workforce’s needs?” and “How fast can ...
The process of choosing a real estate agent tends to follow a pattern. A friend recommends someone. An agent reaches out after seeing an online inquiry. A name keeps appearing in neighborhood marketing mail. The decision gets made on familiarity, first impression, or convenience, and rarely on the criteria that actually predict whether the agent ...
