National Issue
The Closing: Todd Michael Glaser
By Hiten Samtani | January 05, 2022 07:00AM
Development is brain damage, at any budget. So if you’re signing up for it, says Todd Michael Glaser, you might as well aim for the stratosphere. “The problem is, to build a three-bedroom, two...
The Closing: Todd Michael Glaser
New York
Exit interview: New York’s climate chief on reshaping the city
By Hiten Samtani | December 30, 2021 07:30AM
Whether it’s a creative deal financing structure or a nine-figure apartment sale, if it happens in New York City...
Exit interview: New York’s climate chief on reshaping the city
National Issue
Inside the rental tech ecosystem, with RET Ventures’ Chris Yip
By Hiten Samtani | December 22, 2021 07:45AM
In proptech, the early bird doesn’t always get the worm. It can take a lot of time to overcome...
Inside the rental tech ecosystem, with RET Ventures’ Chris Yip
National
Real estate is drunk on ESG. But what’s in the cocktail?
By Hiten Samtani | December 15, 2021 10:45AM
This year, real estate awoke to its status as the quiet villain of climate change. The horrifying stats —...
Real estate is drunk on ESG. But what’s in the cocktail?
National Issue
Convene’s Ryan Simonetti on CRE turf wars, space as a branded service and the proptech-fintech opportunity
By Hiten Samtani | December 09, 2021 06:00AM
For landlords, a new office lease once promised a decade of predictable cash flows. It made everything neat. Office buildings were easy to understand...
Convene’s Ryan Simonetti on CRE turf wars, space as a branded service and the proptech-fintech opportunity
National Issue
Decarbonizing real estate: What’s here — and what’s hype
By Hiten Samtani | December 07, 2021 08:46AM
In real estate, green isn’t the new black — not yet. But if the capital markets continue demanding greater...
Decarbonizing real estate: What’s here — and what’s hype
National
CRE data crowdsourcer CompStak raises $50M
By Hiten Samtani | November 11, 2021 07:00AM
CompStak, which pioneered a crowdsourced approach to commercial real estate data as part of the first wave of startups in what is now known as “proptech,” has raised $50 million in a new fundraising...
CRE data crowdsourcer CompStak raises $50M
New York
“Taxi king” Gene Freidman dead at 50
By Hiten Samtani | October 25, 2021 11:41AM
The “taxi king” is no more. Evgeny “Gene” Freidman, an immigrant cabdriver’s son who amassed the largest collection of...
“Taxi king” Gene Freidman dead at 50
National Issue
Automatic for the people: SmartRent CEO on why landlords are going all-in on connected homes
By Hiten Samtani | October 18, 2021 08:00AM
It ain’t about Amazon package updates. It’s about cap rates. The bells and whistles of connected-home technology grab the headlines, but to Lucas Haldeman,...
Automatic for the people: SmartRent CEO on why landlords are going all-in on connected homes
National Issue
Can creative placemaking make a building more successful? Skylight’s Stephanie Blake thinks so
By Hiten Samtani | October 12, 2021 11:00AM
Legendary real estate investor Harry Helmsley took special pride in finding what he termed the “romance” in a property: the parts of it that...
Can creative placemaking make a building more successful? Skylight’s Stephanie Blake thinks so
