Category: People

Meet the Fifields

A winning real estate duo

When Steven and Randy Fifield discuss what sets their company apart from its competitors, they often use a hockey analogy. They speak of being able to “anticipate where the puck is going,” as Randy Fifield says. It’s a fitting metaphor to describe the couple whose companies, Chicago-based Fifield Companies and Los Angeles-based Century West Partners […]

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Miller-Valentine Group

Stylish Senior Living

As the nation’s apartment industry revels in Gen Y’s affinity for apartment living, developing high-density, high-amenity projects in urban centers across America, there is another force shaping the industry: aging Boomers. In 15 years one in five Americans will be 65 and older and the 50-plus generation will swell by 23 million individuals, reaching 132 […]

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Wood Residential

Seeking enhanced efficiencies

With demand for new, high-quality urban apartment projects on the rise nationwide, Wood Residential has been busy. Parent company Wood Partners builds, positions and then sells Class A apartment communities in the nation’s most popular major cities. Wood Residential’s job is to lease up the properties at the highest rate, providing a strong residency foundation […]

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New Directions

Helping with housing

Since 1971, New Directions Housing Corp has committed to building and preserving a sense of community. The Kentucky-based nonprofit has expanded its portfolio to include real estate development, asset and property management, resident services, home ownership preservation, and community building and organizing. “I don’t know what we do, but we have to find a new […]

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Post Properties

Pushing Innovation Forward

At Atlanta-based Post Properties, standing still is simply not an option – for executives and site level employees alike. In the last year, the company has taken on a major technology overhaul, converting from a disparate, multi-system approach to a single stack solution. The transition involved significant investment in change – not just from the […]

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Alfrieda Green

Urban Innovations

Beginning this June, the city of Chicago has mandated utility benchmarking for all commercial buildings larger than 50,000 square feet. Urban Innovations, which manages 11 properties totaling 750,000 square feet in the Windy City, is one of a handful of property managers that already has nearly 8 years of such data already in hand. Yardi […]

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Balázs Székely

Yardi Romania

“If I could have any superpower in the world it would be X-Ray vision, no doubt about it. I mean, come on, who doesn’t want to have X-Ray vision?” laughs Balázs Székely, an enthusiastic member of Yardi’s publishing team. The 25-year-old aquascaper and Red Hot Chili Peppers fan joined Yardi in October 2013, after a […]

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Holistic Senior Care

From Senior Star

Seniors are the fastest growing segment of the population, with more than 16 million seniors in need of housing by 2050. This previously underserved population has taken center stage as a national housing priority. Yet before the construction and investment boom began, Yardi client Senior Star was providing superior care for seniors and their families. […]

Giving, People

Project for a Village

A journey to Nepal

Yardi CSD manager Terry Kelly and his wife Pam took the trip of a lifetime to Nepal this spring, but they weren’t on a typical tourist agenda. Instead, the focus of their visit was to volunteer at a pop-up health clinic, called a Health Camp, in the foothills of the Himalayas. The two-day medical outreach […]

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Superstar Leasing Agents

Their Top Traits

Deena Howell’s granddaughter sells an uncanny amount of Girl Scout cookies. “That’s because I taught her everything she knows about sales,” Howell smiles with a twinkle in her eye. “That’s why she’s so good at selling those cookies.” For nearly a decade, Howell worked as a leasing agent before becoming a trainer with her company. […]

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Mark Coverdale

Yardi

For most California kids, growing up watching football on TV with Dad on the weekend might mean college games on Saturdays and the NFL on Sunday. For Mark and Jennifer Coverdale’s two young daughters, it’s an early Saturday morning ritual – with all the excitement of English and European games appearing in their Central California […]

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Introducing iUnit

Modular + Energy Smart

Believe it or not, iUnit is not the next device a certain ubiquitous technology company wants you to run out and buy. Rather, it’s a new modular housing project coming to Denver, Colo. in 2015, blending smart energy use, wireless connectivity, green construction and the urban living preferences of American Millennials. iUnit is intended to […]

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John Hammill

Capview Partners

When Jones Lange LaSalle acquired The Staubach Company from football hero-turned-real estate leader Roger Staubach in 2008, the firm’s two experts on single tenant, net-lease retail real estate decided to strike out on their own. John Hammill, a Managing Director at Staubach focusing on net lease and capital markets, and Ken Shulman, a longtime commercial […]

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Cindy Braden

Yardi

You probably know a few triathletes. Chances are good that you might even know someone who has completed an Ironman. But the probability that you know an Ultraman are rarer – and an Ultrawoman? Well, there are only 131 of them to be found worldwide. Yardi Accounting Manager Cindy Braden recently earned her spot on […]

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Ken Romero

Yardi

Ken Romero, Programmer, Affordable Housing, spends much of his work day adding new features and fixes to Yardi’s Beacon product while chugging away at multiple cups of black coffee. Fellow programmers and those on his QA team describe him as humble. They learned through national media that he’s probably a genius as well; Romero was […]

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