2025 Women in CRE: Ingrid Manevitz, Seyfarth Shaw LLP

What skill or quality do you believe is essential for success in your field today? The ability to become a truly trusted advisor to your clients is crucial in today’s competitive legal market. Developing strong client relationships takes time and hard work.

2025 Women in CRE: Sarah Berman, The Berman Group

What skill or quality do you believe is essential for success in your field today? Hard work and passion are the two things that will never be replaced in commercial real estate. AI and technology will help us do our jobs but passion and I love for what you do will never be replaced.

2025 Women in CRE: Kimberly Zar Bloorian, KLOUD Real Estate Marketing

What skill or quality do you believe is essential for success in your field today?2025 Women in CRE: Caitlin Kean, Brand Groupies

What skill or quality do you believe is essential for success in your field today? Storytelling is essential. Specifically, being able to tell stories that go deeper than just the company or the projects themselves - spotlighting the people whose vision, skill, and passion bring them to life.

2025 Women in CRE: Anna Berger, Trayd

What has been the most rewarding project or deal you’ve worked on in your career, and why? It’s not one deal — it’s the hundreds of back offices we’ve transformed across the real estate and construction industry. Helping companies modernize how they handle payroll and compliance has

2025 Women in CRE: Leslie Feifer, Jaspan Schlesinger Narendran LLP

If you could change one thing about the CRE industry, what would it be and why? Working in CRE today requires maintaining a delicate balance between managing realistic time frames and promised time frames. Oftentimes when deals come in clients want to move ahead at rapid speed without completing necessary due diligence because they

2025 Women in CRE: Catherine Azevedo, Romer Debbas LLP

If you could change one thing about the CRE industry, what would it be and why? I would advocate for greater diversity at decision-making levels. Too often, those controlling capital share similar backgrounds, limaiting perspectives and the communities funded.

2025 Women in CRE: Carmen Pagan, Romer Debbas LLP

What has been the most rewarding project or deal you’ve worked on in your career, and why? I represented a lender in a $2.8 billion NYC acquisition loan, financing one of the city’s largest affordable housing projects with 236 units for low-income families.

2025 Women in CRE: Catya Craig, Romer Debbas LLP

What skill or quality do you believe is essential for success in your field today? Attention to detail is essential, as it ensures accuracy and timeliness in every deal. Strong communication skills are also key for coordinating parties and clearly summarizing legal issues.

2025 Women in CRE: Diana Roman, Romer Debbas LLP

What skill or quality do you believe is essential for success in your field today? I believe that one of my most important and essential skills is my attention to detail and multitasking. In real estate, there are a lot of moving parts, and it is so important that you can jump from one deal to another without missing a beat.