Real estate career advice by Victor MacFarlane, founder and managing principal of MacFarlane Partners, one of the leading real estate investment management firms in the United States with $10 billion in assets under management. The firm specializes in high-yielding real estate development, redevelopment, and repositioning projects in urban and high-density suburban areas, as well as single-family housing development projects in major metropolitan areas nationwide….
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Real Estate Career Advice By Alice Connell, managing director at TIAA-CREF and the head of the portfolio strategy and management team. As such, she oversees the investment strategy for the organization’s $25 billion commercial mortgage portfolio and is responsible for crafting the annual debt strategy. She is chair of the commercial mortgage team’s pricing meeting and has an integral role in all transactional approvals. Connell also is head of TIAA’s real estate fund portfolio, directing acquisitions and portfolio management for all domestic, international, and global funds….
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Where Are the Careers in Real Estate? Stan Ross and James Carberry interview Jeffrey T. Mezger, president and chief executive officer of KB Home, a national homebuilder based in Los Angeles. …
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In 1994, Susan Hudson-Wilson founded Property & Portfolio Research (PPR), a real estate research and portfolio strategy firm. She sold the company in 2002, currently serves on PPR’s board, and is a member of the management committee of Hawkeye Partners, L.P., a real estate private equity firm. Hudson-Wilson graduated cum laude with a bachelor or arts degree in economics from the University of Vermont, and received a master of arts degree in economics from Boston University. She also is a chartered financial analyst (CFA). She serves on several nonprofit boards, including the Schepens Eye Research Institute of the Harvard Medical School and the University of Vermont board of trustees. In an interview with writer James Carberry, Hudson-Wilson talked about her experience as an entrepreneur and offered suggestions for those who aspire to start their own business….
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Where Are the Careers in Real Estate? Stan Ross and James Carberry interview Byron Koste, executive director emeritus of the LEEDS School of Business….
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Where Are the Careers in Real Estate? Stan Ross and James Carberry interview Dusan Miletich, managing principal of Arenda Capital Management in Torrance, California. …
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Where Are the Careers in Real Estate? Stan Ross and James Carberry interview Anthony J. LoPinto, head of the North America real estate practice of Korn Ferry International, a global provider of talent and management solutions….
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Jana Turner began her real estate career as a leasing receptionist and advanced to president of asset services of CB Richard Ellis….
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The scion of one of America’s oldest real estate families, John Cushman worked his way up the career ladder from elevator operator to chairman of Cushman & Wakefield….
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