Professional Profile: Michael Mandel, 2013

Name: Michael Mandel Title: Co-Founder and CEO Company: CompStak Location: Manhattan, N.Y. Birthplace: Cherry Hill, N.J. Education: Babson First job outside of real estate: Identity analyst for a commercial music production company First job in real estate or allied field: Commercial real estate broker What do you do now and what are you planning for the future? Co-founder and CEO of Comp-Stak. Hopefully I'll be able to keep doing this, but bigger, for a long time! How do you unwind from a busy day in real estate? TV. And more emails. Favorite book or author: I know everybody has read them by now, but I love "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" series. Favorite movie: "The Game" Last song you downloaded? Something by Sia I think? I downloaded her whole album recently. One word to describe your work environment: Casual-serious Rules to live by in business: Time kills all deals. Bite off more than you can chew...then chew it. If you could invite one person to dinner (living or dead) who would it be and where would you go? My grandfather, who I never met. And I'd go to French Laundry. That place looks incredible. What is your dream job? CEO of CompStak!

Tags: Brokerage

Reprint

Previous Story Next Story

AmTrustRE completes $211m acquisition of 260 Madison Ave.

Manhattan, NY AmTrustRE has completed the $211 million acquisition of 260 Madison Ave., a 22-story, 570,000 s/f office building. AmTrustRE was self-represented in the purchase. Darcy Stacom and William Herring

Area 15 welcomes new tenant openings, signs more experiences coming

SABRE coordinates sale of six properties totaling 199,845 s/f

Polsinelli and Curcio of Compass arrange 22,000 s/f Urban Umbrella lease

Project REAP honored by ICSC for leadership and impact in Commercial Real Estate

READ ON THE GO

DIGITAL EDITIONS

Browse Now

Quick Hits

Brokerage

Palistar Capital renews lease at Rockefeller Plaza

Columns and Thought Leadership

Strategic pause - by Shallini Mehra and Chirag Doshi

Many investors are in a period of strategic pause as New York City’s mayoral race approaches. A major inflection point came with the Democratic primary victory of Zohran Mamdani, a staunch tenant advocate, with a progressive housing platform which supports rent freezes for rent

Behind the post: Why reels, stories, and shorts work for CRE (and how to use them) - by Kimberly Zar Bloorian

Let’s be real: if you’re still only posting photos of properties, you’re missing out. Reels, Stories, and Shorts are where attention lives, and in commercial real estate, attention is currency.

Lasting effects of eminent domain on commercial development - by Sebastian Jablonski

The state has the authority to seize all or part of privately owned commercial real estate for public use by the power of eminent domain. Although the state is constitutionally required to provide just compensation to the property owner, it frequently fails to account

AI comes to public relations, but be cautious, experts say - by Harry Zlokower

Last month Bisnow scheduled the New York AI & Technology cocktail event on commercial real estate, moderated by Tal Kerret, president, Silverstein Properties, and including tech officers from Rudin Management, Silverstein Properties, structural engineering company Thornton Tomasetti and the founder of Overlay Capital Build,