Once your development project has items like construction plans and city approval in place, you can often find investors and lenders who will help finance the actual construction. The catch for real estate developers is that it can costs hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of dollars to get those things. So how do you fund…
In this episode, we discuss what real estate law mistakes cost real estate developers most. Seasoned lawyer Lauren Lofton offers us great advice.
Mike Mooney, chairman of MLG Capital and co-founder of MLG Companies, has spent decades “assembling” land. A land assemblage is the process of buying up parcels of land that are next to one another (also called “contiguous”) and merging them together into one larger piece. In Mike’s case, he needed that land for the 19…
Jonathan Segal is famous among architects for not only designing but also constructing and owning buildings. He teaches a popular course on the subject and has, over time, consolidated his work so that he alone controls the process (design, financial analysis, construction management, and property management) from start to finish. That allows him, he explains, to…
Dr. Andrew Baum, longtime professor at Reading and now at Oxford, co-wrote the book on real estate finance and investments. He has spent the majority of his career working with institutional real estate investors in developing global property investment strategies. But he’s also maintained a parallel academic career. He is executive chairman of Property Funds…
Ann Danner started her own real estate development and homebuilding company, something many people would be scared to do. She grew it to $100 million in revenue, something most entrepreneurs would simply be unable to do. And then she decided to retire from that company to join the board of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital….
Architects tired of being overruled, urban planners who feel like they’re on the sidelines, real estate brokers who want to create as well as sell properties, and normal people who like the idea of hands on work: these kinds of people often wind up contacting John Anderson. John coaches small development boot camps (here’s a bit…
In Episode 6, I caught up with Brandon Donnelly of the very popular blog Architect This City. Brandon has degrees in both architecture and real estate development and as such has a unique perspective on the two disciplines. In this episode, I was interested to hear about the rationale behind his decision to pursue development over architecture,…
I love talking to developers who value the contribution their work makes to the beauty of the city as much as they value the profits they make along the way. Obviously developers have to make profits to stay in business, but as “conductors of the orchestra”, they are uniquely able to take the insights of many talented…
In Episode 4, I chat with Andrés Duany, father of the New Urbanist movement and architect-planner for many huge developments. Duany has helped design and develop entire towns like Seaside, FL, and most recently Alyce Beach, FL (see video), as well as many other great “smaller” projects. But because his work and general views have been so…
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