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Strategies for Real Estate Leaders to Unlock Exceptional Team Performance
Over the last couple of years, the development environment has been especially challenging, with high interest rates and construction costs making getting complex projects off the ground difficult. To succeed in the current market, it’s not enough for developers to assemble a top-tier team. You must also foster a collaborative work culture, where every team…
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Enhancing Team Dynamics With Cloud Based Project Management Tools
The successful completion of a development project requires collaboration between many stakeholders, from developers and project managers to accounting and finance teams. Project collaboration is essential to ensure your team works well together throughout the process, staying aware of other team members’ perspectives, needs, and timelines. Many traditional development workflows, such as outdated and error-prone…
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Overcoming Project Management Pitfalls With Risk Mitigation Techniques
Project managers play a key role on your development team, ensuring vital benchmarks are met and projects come in on time, on budget, and up to high-quality standards. Every complex development project has risks, from scope gaps to regulatory or compliance concerns, but these issues don’t have to derail your timelines and finances. By understanding…
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Everything You Need to Know About Cap Rate in Commercial Real Estate
The capitalization rate (cap rate) is used to determine the expected return on investment on a rental property. Cap rate is considered the most important and popular metric for determining a project’s profitability and is widely used throughout the real estate industry. Cap rates, a measure of the income produced by a property relative to its…
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How to Improve Your Real Estate Development Process in 2024
The real estate market will have a mixed outlook in 2024, and while economists are hopeful the U.S. will avoid a recession and achieve a soft landing, economic growth remains slow and downside risks will stay high. As a result, investment activity and capital deployment are expected to remain stalled through the first half…
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Make Commercial Real Estate Project Management Easier With Northspyre
Real estate project managers take on many responsibilities throughout a complex development project. From managing capital deployment and budgeting to meeting timelines and ensuring zoning or building code compliance, a project’s success is often in the project manager’s hands. Luckily, development software is making commercial real estate project management easier, allowing you to guarantee more…
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How to Use Real Estate Project Management Tools to Reduce Admin Tasks and Cut Costs
Project managers are responsible for overseeing many components of a complex real estate development project, ensuring capital is strategically deployed, creating and executing timelines, and navigating the regulatory and zoning process. As a result, project managers are often overburdened with administrative tasks, from managing documentation such as permits, contracts, change orders, or zoning requirements, to…
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4 Alternative Capital Sources for Multifamily Development
Capital drives commercial real estate development. It fuels the years-long endeavor—taken without cash flow or revenue—until the project is complete. For the last decade, capital has been readily available at a historically low cost, but now, the tide has turned. With widespread economic uncertainty, rising interest rates and a banking crisis earlier this year, banks…
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The Real Estate Developer’s Guide to Yield on Cost
Yield on Cost (YOC) is a financial metric you can use to evaluate the performance and profitability of a real estate investment. By determining your project’s yield on cost, you can measure risk against potential return and compare the asset to other potential opportunities. The yield on cost is unique from other financial metrics in…