Commercial

Solving AP bottlenecks in commercial real estate

Most commercial AP teams are fighting two separate battles: getting invoices in accurately and getting them approved fast. Here's how to solve both.

06 / 16 / 26

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

CRE leaders on AI adoption, disruption & what’s next

Three CRE executives from Arden, Brookfield and Silverstein shared at the Yardi NY Executive Summit how they're navigating market disruption, tenant experience and AI adoption.

05 / 22 / 26

What’s new in the Yardi Commercial Suite: Spring 2026

Smart Lease, Virtuoso Support, Deal Manager and more — here’s what’s new across the Yardi Commercial Suite this quarter.

04 / 23 / 26

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

Technology

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

Trends in Investment Management

We talked to Rob Teel, Vice President, Yardi Global Solutions, about his thoughts on current trends in investment management, specifically commercial real estate portfolios. What’s hot? As a result of the global financial crisis, investors and portfolio managers are taking a heightened interest in three things: Cycle time, transparency, and risk analysis, before and after […]

03 / 07 / 12

Greener Building Design

Building design has taken a big leap forward in the past decade. There is more attention paid to sustainability and efficiency, and buildings are better integrated into their environments, which by default makes them more attractive than the box-like and sometimes fortress-style structures of the ‘70s and ‘80s. However, such efforts still have a long […]

02 / 22 / 12