Category: Thought Leadership

New York, NY Colin Foster is the founder and chief innovation officer of Virtual Service and the creator of Virtual Doorman, the pioneering remote building-wide entry and access management platform for residential buildings.

Rockland County doesn’t have a housing crisis. It has a community crisis. We’ve spent years arguing over density, parking ratios, building heights, traffic counts, and sewer capacity.

Before commercial real estate. Before forty years of negotiating luxury retail deals across Manhattan. Before the boardrooms, the headlines, and the business world...there was music.

A regular issue when negotiating a limited liability company agreement for a real estate project is what should happen if the company needs additional capital for the deal. This is particularly crucial for

Walk down any New York block this year and you can feel it. The sidewalks are crowded, the storefronts are lit, and the energy that defines this city is back at full volume.

 Commercial real estate has always relied on skilled engineering professionals to keep buildings operating safely, efficiently, and reliably. While that responsibility has not changed, the tools that support it have evolved dramatically. Artificial intelligence, predictive analytics, and smart building technologies are no longer concepts for the future – they are becoming part of the everyday operation

For much of the past decade, commercial real estate owners benefited from a favorable environment of historically low interest rates, abundant capital, and strong investor demand. As a result, capitalization

As I write this letter, we are preparing to be at the Annual Conference being held at the Rivers Casino, Schenectady, New York. I look forward to reporting on the conference in my next letter. We have some great courses coming up via Zoom. Please be sure to keep watch on upcoming courses by visiting nyscar.org/resources and tools/professional development.

I attended a Residential Development Forum in Manhattan last week and left with a renewed appreciation for the resilience and creativity of the residential real estate industry. While the headlines often focus on interest

For some time now, I have been saying that cracks are beginning to develop in the luxury fashion marketplace. Not a collapse — luxury will always survive — but perhaps

Another ICSC Las Vegas has come and gone, and one thing became crystal clear walking the halls, restaurants, hotel suites and convention floor this year: retail real estate is no longer in survival

While everyone knew it was only a matter of time before mayor Mamdani endeavored to prove his pre-election vitriol for “the rich,” few speculated ignorance and