Joel Nelson

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Joel Nelson, senior marketing writer, joined Yardi in 2007. His byline has appeared in New York Real Estate Journal, Canadian Property Management and Los Angeles Lawyer, among others. He has won multiple awards from major professional organizations including the International Association of Business Communicators and Public Communicators of Los Angeles. Joel earned a bachelor’s degree from Pomona College.

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Yardi IM on the Road

The Yardi Investment Management team has a full slate of events across the country as the 4th quarter beckons. Along with cosponsoring several of these major industry forums and conferences, Yardi sends expert teams to demonstrate the value of the Yardi Investment Suite, an end-to-end technology platform that automates the real estate investment lifecycle. Key […]

09 / 19 / 23

Partners in Excellence

Earlier this year, Yardi earned an ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year Sustained Excellence Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy after earning designation as Partner of the Year for five consecutive years. The award recognizes Yardi’s efforts in 2022 to help clients benchmark energy and water usage, obtain […]

09 / 13 / 23

Property Energy Data Requirements

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) requires commercial and multifamily building owners to improve performance in energy consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, water use among other aspects of building operations. With compliance deadlines approaching, several jurisdictions are stepping up their energy benchmarking efforts. Indianapolis, Miami and New Jersey, for example, have deadlines this year. Deadlines for […]

09 / 07 / 23

Drive Engagement

One of the most popular classes at this week’s Yardi Advanced Solutions Conference – and past events – focuses on mastering the art of creating and delivering transformative training programs. Taught by Yardi Aspire team members Patty Evans, industry principal, and Michael Joiner, senior manager for client service and content, the class demonstrates how to […]

09 / 05 / 23

Making It Real

Holographic technology – once the stuff of science fiction, enabled with Nobel Prize-winning innovation, increasingly used in fields ranging from education and military planning to medicine and entertainment – is receiving attention as a potentially transformative workplace technology. Holograms are produced by an imaging process in which lasers capture and replicate objects into detailed three-dimensional […]

08 / 31 / 23

Get Your Swag On

Swag, a word coined in the 1940s by an advertising executive, is a way for a business to reinforce its brand among clients, prospects and employees. Swag encompasses a vast array of complimentary items ranging from pens, mugs and mouse pads to hats, water bottles, backpacks, specialized bags for carrying tech gear, exercise mats, calendars, […]

08 / 24 / 23

Ready for Success?

Consolidating real estate investment data on a single platform drives results by centralizing information and automating processes across the investment lifecycle.

Single-Family Rental Market

Although its pandemic-driven expansion has been tempered recently by rising mortgage rates and cooling home sales, the U.S. institutional single-family rentals (SFR) industry has entered a moderate growth mode that positions it “to thrive over the long term,” according to a new research bulletin from Yardi Matrix. Robust household family formation and elevated demand for […]

08 / 21 / 23

Reducing risk: Yardi Investment Suite report

Read a Yardi special report to see how real estate investment managers and investors benefit from an advanced software platform.

Energy Projections

Here are recent projections by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), a statistical and analytical arm of the U.S. Department of Energy that collects, analyzes and disseminates energy information. Record liquid fuel consumption coming in ’24 Global consumption of liquid fuels such as gasoline, diesel and jet fuel will set new record highs in 2024. […]

08 / 09 / 23

Satisfying Investors

Today’s real estate investors not only want the financial and operational numbers on their assets but what’s driving them. That includes environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance, which is becoming increasingly important to property occupants, investors and regulators.  In fact, many institutional investors who provide money for U.S. real estate companies incorporate ESG criteria into […]

07 / 24 / 23

Arm Services

The importance of proper workplace ergonomics is one thing that hasn’t changed since the pandemic’s onset – whether you’re still at home or back in the office. The concept of ergonomics – a word coined by a Polish professor in 1857 – dates to chair and tool designers in ancient Greece. Attention to workplace injuries […]

07 / 14 / 23

Taking Charge

Business credit cards, which enabled close to $700 billion of spending in 2022, are as much a fixture in commerce as the personal cards used by the vast majority of adult Americans. “Both merchants and consumers would be completely stuck without the little plastic cards, with slowed transactions and virtually no online purchases,” according to […]

07 / 10 / 23

Client Spotlight

Paragon Real Estate Investments replaced cumbersome manual processes with a single connected solution that boosts client service and staff efficiency.

Keys to ESG

Note: This article is adapted from an interview with Joe Consolo, Yardi’s industry principal for energy, that was published in PERE magazine. “ESG [environmental, social and governance] performance is becoming a key concern and differentiator for many real estate players,” PwC and the Urban Land Institute declared in their joint Emerging Trends in Real Estate […]

06 / 14 / 23