Founder and CEO, Visual Lease. It’s been just over a year since the U.S. experienced a series of lockdowns in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Lessees and lessors have had to quickly adjust their strategies to adapt to unforeseen circumstances such as office closures, restaurant shutdowns and low foot traffic at retail locations. Today, both parties
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Shane Dulgeroff had big plans for his four-bedroom, two-bathroom house just outside of Los Angeles. Seeking to cash in on latest crypto craze—NFTs, an acronym for nonfungible tokens—he listed the home for auction earlier month by attaching it to a piece of Kii Arens digital artwork and putting the bottom price for the pair at
The coronavirus pandemic has drawn widespread attention to existing inequalities in American society, including the racial wealth gap in real estate. As a result, a push to reimagine the appraisal process through a lens of equity and justice is taking on fresh urgency within the appraisal community. An appraisal plays a crucial role in buying,
Chase Garbarino is the Co-Founder and CEO of HqO. We’ve seen it everywhere: Due to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, remote and hybrid work models have increased dramatically in the past year. A Global Work-from-Home Experience Survey estimates that by the end of 2021, 25-30% of the workforce will be working remotely multiple days a
Kevin is the Founder of Marker Real Estate, an innovative firm with a transparent, inclusive, client-focused strategy. Last April, real estate markets across the United States virtually ground to a halt as most viewings and closings were put on hold. A year later, we’re looking forward to what could be one of the most active seasons
Proposed legislation would require that co-op and condo boards require a reason for rejecting apartment buyers, and real estate experts say that while well intentioned, it would not do much to prevent rejections that aren’t already considered discrimination under the law. Currently, building boards do not have to say why they’re turning down a prospective
New York City rents continue to fall, according to a first-quarter report released today by StreetEasy. Manhattan rents fell to $2,700 a month, the cheapest since 2010 for the Zillow-owned listing site. By comparison, the median asking rent in Manhattan was more than $3,400 in the first quarter of 2020, before the start of the
Fifty-million-dollar sales grab headlines. But a better reflection of how New York City’s real estate market has fared recently are what might be called “regular” luxury sales. Record-busting transactions in Brooklyn’s Park Slope and Manhattan’s Morningside Heights prove the pandemic has not stripped the life from the sector. Far from it. Observers who believe Covid
Ask anyone from Victoria, Australia, what the wealthiest part of Melbourne is and you will resoundingly hear one name: Toorak. That’s because Toorak’s position as Melbourne’s most elite neighborhood is irrefutable and has been from around the very beginnings of the state of Victoria, which separated from New South Wales in 1851 and 50 years
CoreLogic Deputy Chief Economist Selma Hepp, Selma Hepp The real estate markets in Northern and Southern California have never been hotter. Multiple offers and bidding wars define them. Compass West President Kamini Lane and Selma Hepp Executive, Research & Insights, and Deputy Chief Economist at CoreLogic (the Irvine-based data analytics company) lend their insights and