Stephen Keighery’s journey from scaling an Australian tech company to revolutionizing distressed property investment in Louisiana reveals how systems thinking can humanize an industry – and rebuild communities one house at a time. Most real estate investors see distressed properties as transactions. Stephen Keighery sees them as complex human problems waiting for systematic solutions. This ...
Courtney Poulos doesn’t shy away from controversy. The ACME Real Estate founder has launched The Clean Close, a podcast tackling issues most real estate professionals avoid discussing publicly: platform dependence, AI tool failures, and the existential questions facing agents as technology reshapes their industry. “I’m getting messages on Instagram from other agents who have no ...
A single frozen pipe in an Atlantic City casino mechanical room caused $5 million in damage. The insurance paid out. Then came the renewal notice: another $5 million in projected premium increases, with multiple carriers needed just to provide sufficient coverage capacity. This is the reality of water damage in hotel operations. The immediate crisis ...
In an industry increasingly focused on quick deals and social media fame, Jeff Biebuyck‘s approach to luxury real estate stands apart. The Frontgate Real Estate founder, whose team consistently ranks in the top 1% nationally, has built his business on a simple premise: to become indispensable to clients’ lives, not just their real estate transactions. ...
For 14 years, Liat Arama managed properties the traditional way. She hired property management companies, paid their percentage-based fees, and watched as her investment properties became someone else’s profit center. The lack of control frustrated her. The misaligned incentives bothered her. And eventually, she decided to do something about it. Today, Liat is the CEO ...
As construction costs surge and financing tightens, many real estate developers find themselves squeezed between rising expenses and tenant expectations for premium features. Yuval Shram, founder of TAY Investments, has charted a different path through strategic vertical integration and disciplined market selection. With a portfolio spanning New Jersey’s most dynamic rental submarkets, Shram’s success stems ...
While New York City’s Local Law 157 deadline has been extended to January 1, 2027, the conversation shouldn’t be about buying more time, it should be about making the right technical choices that will protect buildings for the next decade and beyond. Having worked with hundreds of buildings across New York City, I’ve seen firsthand ...
KLAUS Multiparking America has promoted Kevin Paxton to Architectural Design & Sales Specialist, a move that strengthens the company’s technical support capabilities during the critical early phases of project development. The promotion reflects growing demand for space-efficient parking solutions across American real estate markets where land constraints and construction costs increasingly challenge traditional parking approaches. ...
A scenario that all short term rental operators dread is entering one of their units to discover water pooling across the floor or mold climbing the walls. Unlike hotels with round-the-clock staff or long-term rentals with steady occupancy, STRs frequently sit empty, from a few days to perhaps weeks at a time in seasonal markets ...
Commercial real estate isn’t residential. Your tenants aren’t just paying rent and going about their day, they’re running businesses. They’re your business partners. After working with hundreds of commercial property owners across North America, three recurring conversations emerge that damage these critical relationships, conversations that are entirely preventable with the right approach to portfolio management. ...
Bruce Carpenter spent years playing referral roulette. The broker-owner of Homedation Realty would scroll through Facebook groups and Instagram, hoping to find an out-of-state agent who might actually follow through. Even when he found someone with good reviews, there was no guarantee. “You’re hoping that you’ve had a conversation with another out-of-state agent. Even if ...
By: KeyCrew Marketing Studio With median prices at $2.075 million and limited inventory, this downtown neighborhood represents rare infill opportunity in South Florida’s hottest market DELRAY BEACH, FL – October 27, 2025 – Larry Mastropieri has watched South Florida buyers adjust their expectations over the past year. They start looking in Miami or Fort Lauderdale ...
The water dripping through your ceiling at 1 AM is the beginning of a cascade of problems that most co-op shareholders don’t anticipate until they’re living through them: insurance disputes, neighbor conflicts, rising maintenance fees, and in some cases, diminished property values that affect every shareholder in the building. In our work deploying monitoring systems ...
Better Living Realty’s “Home Staging Revolutionized” program eliminates upfront costs while transforming unsellable properties into competitive listings. CONNECTICUT – October 22, 2025 – Rob Marucci has spent 14 years telling sellers the same thing: clean, declutter, paint, and fix the small issues before listing. The advice was sound. The problem was execution. Sellers either lacked ...
KLAUS Multiparking America marks 35 years of delivering mechanical and automated parking systems across the United States, a milestone that reflects both the company’s German engineering heritage and its adaptation to American real estate markets. Since establishing its first U.S. projects in 1990, the company has installed thousands of parking spaces across multifamily, mixed-use, hospitality, ...
