Beyond townhomes: tips from the experts on designing for density
Over a 10-year investment journey, Adam Beasley has created a property portfolio worth in excess of $10 million and achieved financial freedom. Strategic Brokers founder Hung Chuy said in the How I Met My Broker podcast that while many investors strove to achieve the goal through market-driven value growth, Beasley took matters into his own…
Sesame Network grew its adviser numbers by 181 in the first half of the year, now totalling 760 during a period of double-digit growth. The network said this was the fastest pace of recruiting in recent years, bringing its total number of firms to 260. This represented a 25% and 10% year-on-year increase, respectively,…
As organizations build smarter applications, AI assistants, and agents, they face a fundamental challenge: their systems need reliable access to external information, including specialized and current data that may not already be available within an application or large language model (LLM). That is especially important when applications need property data. A system may need information…
Finding promising stocks isn’t as simple as either following a stock’s price or looking at analyst ratings. It requires both. Investors need to understand why analysts like a company and whether the stock is gaining momentum in the market. That was a key theme of a recent VettaFi webcast, Fundamental and Technical Analysis to Improve…
The know your customer (KYC) process is instrumental in facilitating security—for both brokers and their clients. It’s a key measure that helps brokers reduce the risks of fraud and unauthorised account usage. KYC is a mandatory process that banks, brokers, and various digital platforms use to check and confirm the identity of their users. But…
Berkadia arranged the sale and acquisition financing of two value-add, neighboring Castro Valley multifamily communities with a total of 135 units. They included the Cedars, an 83-unit property that sold for $21.45 million, and Creekside Terrace, a 52-unit property that sold for $14.1 million. Senior managing director Jason Parr, managing director Scott MacDonald and director…