-
If Leonard Wood had left Trammell Crow to start an ice cream stand, Donna Hawkins says she would've followed him. And Wood's longtime executive assistant obviously isn't alone. When Wood resigned from Trammell Crow in 1998 to launch Wood Partners, roughly 60 Trammell Crow employees, including...
-
More than a decade ago, two buddies kicked back at the pool with a few beers and started tossing around ideas for their new construction company. Like so many other entrepreneurs, they grabbed a napkin and started jotting down their business plan. The four main points decided by founders Bob...
-
Michael Costa isn't waiting for a rebound in market-rate apartment construction. He doesn't need to. “We're focused 100 percent on workforce housing,” says Costa, president of Simpson Housing Solutions, a California-based subsidiary of Simpson Housing, a multi-family builder and developer based in...
-
The gap between wages and rents continues to broaden and deepen. In 2002, there wasn't one jurisdiction in the United States where a minimum wage job provided enough income for a household to afford the fair market rate for a two-bedroom home.
-
Every player on the team is important, and it's the manager's job to ensure they perform to the best of their abilities. At Pinnacle Realty Management Co., Stan Harrelson, 48, makes sure his team is equipped with the resources and training necessary to get the job done right.
-
More than 20 years ago, Terry Howard began his career as a sales and marketing representative for a senior living property. He obviously learned a great deal from experience. Last September, Howard became president of MBK Senior Living Communities, California-based MBK Real Estate's recently...
-
In light of tighter corporate regulation, high-level executive departures—such as Michael Eisner of the Walt Disney Co.—and too many high-profile business scandals, many public multifamily companies are reevaluating and strengthening succession plans, going far deeper into the company hierarchy...