Ben is a co-founder of Fundrise. Ben’s responsibilities involve strategic partnerships, deal underwriting, real estate development, PR as well as setting the long-term strategy and goals for the company. Ben has 15 years of experience in real estate and finance, and he has acquired, developed, and financed more than $500 million of property in his
What’s up guys! Since we were not able to post a full vlog this week, I hope you enjoy this short little promo for an upcoming house I’m co-listing with one of my biggest rivals, Fredrik Eklund… Do you think we should do the house tour together? We’ll be back with a sick vlog next
Taylor Morrison Home Corp. signage stands in front of homes under construction at the La Solara Community in Dublin, California. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Ultra-low mortgage rates, a shortage of existing homes for sale and strong demand for new high-tech houses catapulted homebuilder Taylor Morrison‘s sales into record territory in June.
The student housing industry has been hard at work planning for the fall. Getty With the fall semester approaching, student housing owners and operators are taking unprecedented precautions to ensure students return to a safe and productive environment. Students are likely to find transformed spaces in on-campus housing and new normals as they start or
Potential homebuyers exit an open house in Redondo Beach, California. Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images After a brief pullback at the end of June, homebuyers rushed back into the mortgage market last week, taking advantage of record-low mortgage rates. Mortgage applications to purchase a home rose 5% for the week and were
Kellie Rastegar is Co-Founder and Creative Director at Rastegar Property Group. Getty “Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and test of our civilization.” These valuable words were spoken by Gandhi more than a century ago. Though strides have been made, even in 2020 gender and diversity disparity still exist within real
The coronavirus pandemic is pushing businesses and dwellers out of city centers and downtowns into the outskirts in the short term, but demand can be expected to return to big cities, according to the head of the largest commercial real estate broker in the country. Hessam Nadji, president and CEO of Marcus & Millichap, on
The Mar-a-Lago estate at the water’s edge in Palm Beach, Florida. The mansion was built by Marjorie … [+] Merriweather Post in the 1920s. Corbis via Getty Images Glenn Parada, the head of an eponymous mortgage empire that recently established its headquarters in Palm Beach, Florida, was born in El Salvador at the peak of