Jessica Sherman, associate vice president of affordable housing at Douglaston Development. Douglaston Development Jessica Sherman, associate vice president of affordable housing with the real estate firm Douglaston Development, has made it her mission to improve the quality of life for low-income New Yorkers. Recently named a Crain’s New York “Rising Star,” Sherman has helped her
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Construction site in Hong Kong Getty As we’ve seen in a previous article, the Construction Tech (ConTech) market is huge and filled with low-hanging fruit for the technologically savvy contractor or client to pick. Though there are seven areas in the construction value chain that could (and are starting to) benefit from the advent of
The lounge and kitchen area at Alexandria LaunchLabs at the Alexandria Center, One Kendall Square, in Cambridge, Mass. © 2019 Andy Caulfield With technological advancement occurring at an increasingly breakneck pace, it’s natural the number of life science and technology innovation clusters is growing as well. These clusters result from the increasing recognition that innovators
When you take the step of owning your first rental property and becoming a landlord, you’ll likely underestimate just how many things can eat up your time and energy. On the tenant side, you can find yourself doing everything from mediating neighbor disputes to following up on late rent payments. Then there’s the property management
As the market is starting to suggest, we’re likely heading for a downturn. For the real estate industry (that only recently stopped licking its wounds from the Great Recession), this is surely a constant on all minds, especially those of us in brokerage leadership. How bad will this recession really be? I find that it’s