Joel Nelson

Built to Last

Philadelphia real estate developer and manager Kaiserman Company knows something about stability. It’s a third-generation family business founded in 1923. Some residential properties the company built in the 1950s still stand. Many of its retail and office building tenants have been clients for decades. Today, Kaiserman seeks another type of permanence: environmental preservation, a goal […]

11 / 01 / 16

Great Goals

One of Jim Merski’s favorite quotes, rooted in a 17th Century Italian proverb, is “Good is the enemy of great.” “Our goal is to be great,” says Merski, chief financial officer of Boston-based Barkan Management Company Inc., a Yardi client that manages 147 residential communities with more than 23,000 units, primarily condominiums, along with other […]

10 / 17 / 16

Creating Continuity

Assessing risk and planning ahead can help property managers and owners safeguard their assets, employees and tenants in the event of a disaster. Yardi® clients have an invaluable resource for creating and executing business continuity strategies—the procurement solution known as Yardi Marketplace™. Yardi Marketplace is a source for more than 1 million discounted MRO products […]

10 / 14 / 16

The Gershen Group

Princeton, N.J.-based property management firm The Gershen Group LLC opened in 1959 as a small family based firm. It concentrated on planning and consulting before branching out to housing management in 1972. Its principal focus today is affordable and senior housing, although the company’s commercial holdings have consistently increased over the years. Long after The […]

09 / 22 / 16

Giving

VÖLKEL COMPANY

For more than a decade, Dirk Völkel has channeled his passion for retail asset investment into his company, VÖLKEL COMPANY Group, which provides real estate management services in Germany. Founded in 2004, the company today operates 170 properties valued at 1.3 billion euros and handles a high volume of transactions from offices across Germany. “Our […]

09 / 02 / 16

Rental Convenience

Applied Property Management Co. takes pride in spreading fast, convenient service across a portfolio that consists of thousands of apartment units which include market rate, subsidized housing and commercial spaces in New Jersey. Making life easier for residents and staff lies at the heart of Applied Property Management’s mission. “Our company practices a paperless approach, […]

08 / 31 / 16

Fund Management Tips

Property fund management, by its very nature, is a complicated undertaking. Fund managers can avoid the more egregious pitfalls of the business by following a few ground rules, according to Terry Gowan, regional director of Australia and New Zealand sales for Yardi®. “With a little planning, you can save staff time, ensure data reliability, meet […]

08 / 17 / 16

Investment management

Call of Duty

“Hunt Companies is always giving back,” says Crisha Kamphorst, a business solutions manager for Hunt Companies Inc., referring to her employer’s devotion to employees, residents and communities. Hunt Companies is a Yardi® client that manages more than 32,000 housing units across the U.S. as one of the military’s privatized housing partners. That dedication is rooted […]

07 / 18 / 16

Amenity Focused

Veritas Investments might be small in some ways, but it stands tall in creative customer service. San Francisco-based Veritas specializes in owning and managing classic, character-rich apartment buildings with 20 to 30 units, as well as their ground-floor retail sections. With limited space at its properties, Veritas employs imaginative ways to grab attention in a […]

06 / 28 / 16

Rudin Management

Rudin Management Company Inc. will manage 15 million square feet of diversified real estate holdings in New York City with a mobile-enabled platform consisting of Yardi Voyager®—the core property management and accounting system—and comprehensive front office and back office solutions from the Yardi Commercial Suite™ and the Yardi Multifamily Suite™. The Yardi® software platform will […]

05 / 11 / 15

Tricon American Home

As part of a plan to scale its operations, Tricon American Homes wanted to replace several business systems with a single, integrated source of data whose automation and efficiency would let it grow its portfolio without adding overhead costs. The single-family rental home owner and management company executed this plan by implementing a single solution […]

04 / 16 / 15

Thornton Oliver Keller

Thornton Oliver Keller is preparing for anticipated portfolio growth by eliminating manual processes, streamlining budgeting, and improving client services and reporting. To accomplish these objectives, Idaho’s largest commercial real estate firm recently selected Yardi Voyager® 7S, a mobile-enabled Software as a Service platform for commercial property management and accounting, and products from the Yardi Commercial […]

04 / 14 / 15

Principal Real Estate Investors

Institutional asset manager Principal Real Estate Investors will use newly acquired solutions from the Yardi Commercial Suite™ and the Yardi Investment Suite™ to help reduce business process lifecycles, increase transparency into operational performance and monitor investment risk as it prepares to execute its growth strategy. The single stack of integrated Yardi business solutions will provide […]

03 / 11 / 15

PMB Real Estate Services

Real estate companies involved in medical office buildings are thriving with Yardi® commercial property management solutions that help them carry out multiple business operations. For one of them, PMB Real Estate Services (PMB RES), a Yardi Voyager® client since 2006, the platform stands in dramatic contrast to the property management and leasing company’s previous DOS-based […]

03 / 10 / 15