Virginia Tech Real Estate The Blackwood Department of Real Estate at Virginia Tech allows students to find their interest in real estate and expand in a concentration, with two major options and a minor. The Department offers a major in Commercial Development and Investment as well as Residential Development and Investment. This allows students to […]
My path to pursuing a graduate degree at the Franklin L. Burns School of Real Estate and Construction Management at the University of Denver (DU) started when I realized that I wanted more freedom than my 40-hour-a-week career would allow me. Investing in real estate seemed like the obvious path to financial freedom, so I […]
I chose to attend UNLV and its real estate program because as a long-time resident of Las Vegas I understood, witnessed firsthand, and directly benefited from what it meant to be a REBEL. It was never a debate, there wasn’t an alternative option for me. UNLV was my home away from home simply as a […]
As an international student, the options for pursuing my university studies were broad, but I was able to shorten the list to the United Kingdom or Canada. I picked Canada specifically because of the favorable immigration policies in comparison to the UK, as my family and I wanted a place where I could pursue better […]
Before coming to UCLA Anderson, I was working in land-use consulting, entitlements, and permitting in Los Angeles. I chose to come to Anderson to continue to develop my real estate network in Southern California, supplement my engineering undergraduate degree with finance curriculum, and to take advantage of the multitude of resources available at Anderson for […]
In this special episode of the A.CRE Audio Series, Sam, Michael, and Spencer talk to Brian Murray, the CEO of Shift Capital, about impact development. Shift Capital is a B-certified impact real estate group. A B-certification is a designation that certifies that a group focuses on social and environmental returns to society. Founded with the […]
I chose the Portland State University Master of Science in Real Estate program because of its sustainable and equitable real estate and development values. The deciding factor was that the community stood with the institution in a way I had not seen before. It was great to see diverse groups of people working together and […]
In choosing an MBA program, I sought not only a top-ranked MBA program but one that also offered an extensive real estate curriculum and a strong real estate network. I was also focused on choosing a school close to a major real estate hub and with strong alumni ties to major cities, so the fact […]
This post is the second in a new series at A.CRE, our Real Estate Sponsor Series. This series aims to catalog the various real estate investors across the country. For this article, we interviewed Blue Lake Capital’s Director of Investor Relations, Jeannette Robinson. Read below to learn all about Blue Lake Capital: its history, its […]
This post is the first in a new series at A.CRE, our Real Estate Sponsor Series. This series aims to catalog the various real estate investors across the country. For this article, we interview Pilot-Legacy Private Equity Group’s Lane Beene. Read below to learn all about Pilot-Legacy: their history, their investment strategy, their adjustments for […]
In this special episode of the A.CRE Audio Series, we feature Kyle Waldrep, founder of Dottid, and Senecca Miller, its CTO and COO. Dottid is a commercial real estate asset management optimization platform. It’s an operating tool for office, industrial, and retail owners across the country, as they manage, lease, and serve their tenants inside […]
In this special episode of the A.CRE Audio Series, we feature Brandt Foster, Director at Northwestern Mutual Real Estate, one of the largest institutional real estate investors in the nation. In this conversation, Brandt discusses all the various subtypes that are part of the manufactured housing community (MHC) asset class and details how it has […]
In this special episode of the A.CRE Audio Series, we feature Yaakov Zar and Sammy Greenwall, the founders of Lev Capital, a commercial mortgage marketplace for capital market advisors. Spencer, Michael, and Sam speak with Yaakov and Sammy about how Lev is innovating real estate debt procurement technology to modernize the CRE financing process. Through […]
The three major factors that made SMU Cox stand out to me were the program’s size, the deep alumni network (especially in the Dallas area), and the prowess of the RE department within Cox. Firstly, when looking for an MBA program, it was essential to find a school with a personal touch where I could […]
This episode of the A.CRE Audio Series features Jacob Deva Racusin, a real estate professional and co-founder of New Frameworks. New Frameworks is a worker-owned cooperative focused on climate solutions for the built environment, namely through construction methods. In addition to publishing numerous articles, Jacob has also authored two books on natural building and integrative […]