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Steve Marcinuk
13 Nov 2025

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 ...

Steve Marcinuk
13 Nov 2025

Hotel Operations Co., a Colombian boutique hotel developer and operator, is seeking to reshape how boutique hospitality functions in emerging tourism markets, according to General Manager Matias Maya Calad. In a recent interview, Maya Calad described the company’s approach to hotel development and operations, addressing persistent challenges in the boutique hotel sector. “We realized that ...

Steve Marcinuk
13 Nov 2025

The real estate market in Colombia’s tourism sector is undergoing a significant transition, creating distinct winners and losers, according to Matias Maya Calad, General Manager of Hotel Operations Co. In a recent interview, Maya Calad discussed emerging opportunities and effective strategies in Colombia’s changing hospitality real estate landscape. “We were seeing a big influx of ...

Steve Marcinuk
13 Nov 2025

The multifamily real estate market presents a complex landscape where conventional wisdom often clashes with opportunity. While many investors remain sidelined by high interest rates and market uncertainty, experienced operators are finding compelling deals in unexpected places. Danny Kattan, founder of Sell2Rent and managing partner of a multifamily investment firm with $400 million in assets ...

Steve Marcinuk
13 Nov 2025

Miami’s luxury real estate landscape has changed significantly over the past two decades, evolving from what Carolina Lopez and Katherine Lopez of ONE Sotheby’s International Realty recall as a “little town” where “you used to know everybody” into a cosmopolitan hub attracting global wealth. The identical twin sisters, who have worked in Miami’s luxury market ...

Steve Marcinuk
13 Nov 2025

The Fort Lauderdale luxury residential market is experiencing a tale of two sectors, with single-family homes maintaining strength while condominiums face significant headwinds. This divergence reflects broader market dynamics that extend beyond typical buyer-seller cycles, according to industry professionals navigating the current landscape. Market veteran Donna Incorvaja, Certified Residential Specialist at Related ISG Realty, LLC, ...

Steve Marcinuk
13 Nov 2025

The net lease commercial real estate market is undergoing a major transformation as technology-driven platforms bring institutional-level market intelligence to family offices and private investors. Firms such as B+E Net Lease are leading this change, combining traditional brokerage expertise with advanced data analytics to serve a growing segment of wealth holders seeking passive real estate ...

Nadav Schnall
13 Nov 2025

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 ...

Steve Marcinuk
13 Nov 2025

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. ...

Rudi Davis
12 Nov 2025

Real estate professionals are finding that artificial intelligence voice cloning technology is reshaping their approach to prospecting, though many still underestimate how advanced these tools have become. Nadav Boaz, founder and CEO of VoiceDrop, shared insights on how his company’s voice cloning platform is being used across a range of real estate sectors, including wholesaling ...

Rudi Davis
12 Nov 2025

The restaurant leasing market in Arlington is facing a tough financial reality that is surprising many aspiring restaurateurs, according to A. Paul Voutsas, President and Principal Broker at PVIM CRE. In a recent interview, Voutsas discussed how rising capital requirements are transforming the local restaurant scene and challenging common assumptions about launching a food business. ...

Rudi Davis
12 Nov 2025

REItrades, an automated commercial real estate marketplace, is changing how real estate professionals handle institutional property transactions with its AI-powered platform. In a recent interview, Artur Muller, Founder and CEO of REItrades, discussed how this technology is being implemented across the commercial real estate sector for deals above $10 million. “We’re fully automated. AI powered ...

Steve Marcinuk
12 Nov 2025

The Miami real estate market has fundamentally changed since COVID-19, creating what industry analysts identify as new price categories that did not exist before the pandemic. This shift has been carefully documented by Ana Bozovic, founder and owner of Analytics Miami, whose analytical research has made her one of the most cited voices in South ...

Rudi Davis
12 Nov 2025

A new trend is emerging as East Coast boat owners realize they can purchase weekend homes on Fort Myers Beach for less than their monthly marina fees, creating an opportunity that is changing the luxury market’s buyer demographics. Justin O’Hara of Premier Plus Realty recently observed this shift while showing a Fort Lauderdale client a ...

Steve Marcinuk
12 Nov 2025

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 ...