Sentences with phrase «real estate players say»

Not exact matches

«It's not about buying real estate for our brand, but making sure our technology is available to players,» Grunke says.

The upcoming battle is reflected on this list by the presence of Albany - centric lawmakers, who the mayor will need to get his affordable housing plan off the ground; real estate industry players, who will no doubt have their deep - pocketed say in the legislative skirmish to come; and the city officials who will lobby hard for tenant - friendly rent laws in the state capital, or cut a few deals that alienate their progressive base.

Many real estate players including Levine, Newmark Grubb Knight Frank chairman Jeffrey Gural and Robert Knakal, who earlier this year sold his company to Cushman & Wakefield, said Litwin remains revered.

Real estate players who talked to TRD said Dorego is well known and respected by his peers, and that he's a regular at industry events.

While this year's rate increase will undoubtedly affect borrowing costs, commercial real estate players saw the hike coming, and some say that the change was already baked into the market.»

«Jobs for New York is effectively trying to make candidates secondary players in their own campaign,» Levine said, referring to the political action committee championed by the influential Real Estate Board of New York.

«The big are getting bigger, and the niche players are continuing on,» says P. Wesley Foster Jr., owner of Long & Foster Real Estate Inc., Fairfax, Va., which has 120 offices in the mid-Atlantic states and 6,000 sales associates.

«SiiQ addresses an obvious market need and, through its choice speakers and partners, will most certainly become a key event for all real estate players operating in Quebec, says Sébastien Demers, president of SiiQ and founder of Gooplex.com.

«I see it as a huge player in the real estate market in the future,» he says.

Another scenario would be if a hot player is signed, the real estate sales rep can send a welcome to the neighbourhood email and offer their real estate services and local expertise, he says.

«When we established this group, we decided to be more of a niche player vs. a broad - based provider of real estate financing,» says Jacobs, a managing director at Greenwich Capital and group co-head of the Commercial Assets Group.

Scott Humphreys, self - storage acquisitions director at Austin, Texas - based Virtus Real Estate Capital, says a new trend in the industry being employed by many of the REITs and larger regional players is purchasing sites in construction or shortly after they open.

David Ellermann, founder and managing director of commercial real estate brokerage SperryCGA - Ellermann, says he expects more players to enter the online space in commercial real estate in a bid to capture the sort of success that Ten - X has seen.

«A football player came to me and said, «I want to do a real estate deal, I'll give you 8 % on your money,» which is a good deal — I'll take 8 % all day long,» Neil said, assuming the borrower has assets to collateralize.

«The biggest change is certainly that players are coming in and building larger, more retail - focused properties,» says Colby Moore, director of the national net - lease and sale - leaseback group at commercial real estate services firm Transwestern.

Smaller and midsized real estate companies — where transactions involve multiple players and large sums of money — are an ideal target for criminals, Edgerton said.

Last year the Parsippany, N.J. — based hotel franchisor said it planned to become the dominant player in the residential real estate brokerage business.

Jean Laurin, president and CEO of Newmark Knight Frank Devencore, says CITI Commercial is «an important player and has been very active in the Alberta market; they have also spearheaded major real estate negotiations and transactions in the energy, financial, technology and service sectors.

During the past 60 years, we have evolved to become a dominant player in the B.C. real estate agency market,» says Lynn Hsu, CEO of Macdonald Realtors.

He interviewed with four different real estate brokerages, and wound up hiring on with Right at Home Realty — at the time, «one of the lesser players,» he says.

Phil Soper, chief executive officer of Brookfield Real Estate Services — which operates Royal LePage in Canada and Real Living in the United States — said the American settlement opened up data in a way that small players may not have expected.

«Colorado Boulevard near the Target is great real estate and provides an opportunity for a number of big - box players who have tried to get into the Colorado Boulevard market in the past but have been shut out,» Zall said.

Boston - based Intercontinental Real Estate Corp. and local player Golub & Co. have signed a letter of intent to buy the 546,000 - square - foot complex, sources familiar with the transaction said.

«If we want to show our competence against online real estate players, we have to be able to show our value to customers, and use technology to do that, too,» Marine said.

Franchises in the industry aren't to be ignored, but Aveni says independent real estate companies can compete against the biggest players and fare just as well.

«Royal LePage has firmly established itself as the dominant player in Ontario's real estate market, which can only serve to assist our Realtors as they strive to build their businesses in an increasingly competitive industry,» says Andrew Zsolt, president of the brokerage.

That is why GE Capital, one of the largest net lease players in the market, has been focusing on expanding its restaurant business for more than a year, says Joseph French, senior vice president of institutional retail sales with Sperry Van Ness, a national real estate investment brokerage firm.

«Re / Max Finland will be the first big player in real estate that isn't connected to a bank,» he says.

Lawrence Dale, who as president of RealtySellers launched several lawsuits against CREA, says: «Pierre's vision transformed CREA from a somewhat peripheral player in the real estate industry into Canada's most powerful organization in the residential real estate industry.

When speaking to National Real Estate Investor Online, he said, «There could be a day down the road where players that have traditionally raised money for institutional investors could be looking at this retail channel as a supplement, or even as an alternative when it gets big enough.»

For example, in 2007 First American Title Insurance Company was fined $ 500,000 in Minnesota for operating what the Minnesota Department of Commerce said were «sham title agencies that provided illegal referral kickbacks to local real estate agents, mortgage brokers, developers and other industry players» (click here for the Star Tribune article — article has been removed by Star Tribune).

Discount brokerages and new unproven entrants in the real estate market will continue to challenge the more traditional players, says McCredie, but he believes there will always be a market for clients wanting a brokerage that offers full service.

So far, Asian buyers remain «fairly minor players» in the Florida market, «but we are noticing some activity,» says John Tuccillo, chief economist for Florida Realtors, the trade association for the state's 115,000 real estate professionals.

Council Member Player Murray, managing broker at Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices York Simpson Underwood Realty, said the REthink Council «stands to redefine the real estate industry» and will make a positive impact on the growth of the Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices brand.