Commercial

Connected CRE tools that sync data & streamline collaboration

See how connected CRE solutions help property teams visualize space, sync data and collaborate seamlessly across planning, leasing and operations.

01 / 30 / 26

Introducing Smart Lease: A new era for lease abstraction

Yardi Smart Lease automates lease abstraction with AI, improving accuracy and reducing manual work for commercial property managers within Voyager.

03 / 26 / 26

How AI is Reshaping CRE

AI is top of mind across the real estate industry, and the business case for AI in CRE has become clear. CRE stakeholders embracing AI’s impact on the industry are already employing data-driven approaches to decision making while leveraging AI to improve day to day operations including optimized AP processing and customer service. Following are […]

08 / 15 / 24

5 ways CommercialCafe & Yardi Elevate power your CRE journey

Manage the full CRE lifecycle with Yardi, from listings to leases, maintenance to budgeting — all connected on one data-driven platform.

11 / 07 / 25

Evolving E-Commerce

Today’s retail market is something of a “living” sector, seemingly in a state of constant change as manufacturers and retailers learn to harness ever-advancing technology to attract and retain customers. Over the years, advancements have led to a variety of concerns, some of them significant: The growing popularity of online shopping has at various times […]

05 / 17 / 13

Green Design

The concept of sustainable design is taking significant steps forward, according to one expert, but it still has a way to go. While efforts are expanding into the planning stages and incorporating operations and asset management as well, hard data evidence of results are still missing, affirms Tom Paladino, founder of consulting firm Paladino and […]

04 / 12 / 13

Finding Inspiration

It’s inspiring to hear the details of a success story, and never more so than when the person had to fight their way to the top. Talk to a female executive in commercial real estate, and chances are you’ll walk away with more than a few such inspirations. Talk to 25 of them, and you’ll […]

02 / 28 / 13

Shorten the Leasing Lifecycle

Commercial clients attending this week’s Yardi Advanced Solutions Conference in Santa Barbara can focus on maximizing business efficiency when selecting from a comprehensive track of classes. One of many exciting new lead and lease focused applications from Yardi Systems that will be introduced is Yardi Commercial CRM™, which offers commercial real estate professionals the ability […]

10 / 16 / 12

Jennie Kirby

As the owner and principal broker of a full service property management firm in Lafayette, Indiana, Jennie Kirby has insight into every sector of real estate in her Midwestern hometown. She and husband Aaron, associate broker, work with all types of real property at Kirby Property Management, from shopping centers to student apartments to single […]

09 / 18 / 12

Getting to the Future

Executives making long-term plans face an interesting juxtaposition: Significant changes lie ahead, but at the same time history is sure to repeat itself. How best to handle this? Move cautiously, but stay open minded and don’t be afraid to try new things. Never has the industry faced as many big changes simultaneously as those coming […]

06 / 27 / 12

Dave Woodward

From his high-rise office in downtown Denver, Dave Woodward has a great view of the snow-capped Rocky Mountains just beyond the Mile High City. He’s also taking the long view with his new company, CompassRock Real Estate. Formerly the CEO of the Laramar Group for 12 years and prior to that a senior vice president […]

06 / 14 / 12

Joanne Massey

Joanne Massey is the controller for Sundance Square, the renowned Fort Worth property management firm owned by the Bass family that controls 35 city blocks of the city’s downtown core, including numerous historic buildings, and is considered one of America’s most successful urban revitalization efforts. But her interest in cool stuff from the past doesn’t […]

05 / 03 / 12

Lucy Billingsley

Lucy Billingsley’s distinguished career in real estate development ranks her among the nation’s leading female industry executives. In the fourth decade of her career, she maintains great passion for the next project to command her attention. “My favorite deal is always the next one,” she told us during a recent interview. Billingsley Company, the Dallas-based […]

04 / 26 / 12

Redefining Residential

Yvonne A. Jones has had a long and accomplished career in commercial real estate. Currently Managing Director of Asset and Property Management at Chicago-based McCaffery Interests, Inc., she’s also serving as President-Elect at IREM Chicago, Chapter 23. Recently The Balance Sheet had the chance to talk to Jones about her new foray into the residential […]

04 / 23 / 12

Joining the Global Party

Global business. Those are catchwords the real estate industry has been grabbing onto for some time now, always as if it’s a current trend. Businesses are expanding globally; U.S. real estate service providers need to follow their clients, and investors purchasing property overseas can be their landlords. And foreign lenders are as much a source […]

04 / 10 / 12

Investment management

Creative, Cool, Commercial

Lance-Kashian & Company’s development of major commercial projects in the Fresno area, including the River Park and the forthcoming Fancher Creek and Campus Pointe communities, has been a major part of Fresno’s evolution from a mid-size farming city to major California metro area with amenities aplenty. Whether it’s a shopping center, office park, or a […]

04 / 05 / 12

Learning from the Stars

The commercial real estate industry can learn a lot from its rising stars. Still young enough to be idealistic and take advice from their mentors, industry under-40—and sometimes under-30—achievers are able to turn it into successful business. Unfortunately, it is human nature to forget or lay aside ideals with age and experience—but doing so may […]

03 / 28 / 12

Learning

Jody Bankston

If you told a teenage Jody Bankston that he’d grow up to be an expert in business intelligence for a commercial real estate company, and spend free time doing intense CrossFit workouts that would make even a top athlete cringe, he probably wouldn’t have believed you. “My life has been a little bit strange,” says […]

03 / 22 / 12

Commercial Projects: Controlled but Creative

While the movie “Field of Dreams” gave voice to the commercial development mantra “If we build it, they will come,” in the past few years this generally enthusiastic group has been admirably cautious

03 / 13 / 12