Written by Topher Darrell CHARLOTTE, NC. — If you ask Lillianna Tovar (aka Lilli) what it takes to thrive in real estate, her answer won’t come from a textbook. It won’t be padded with fluff or borrowed from someone else’s playbook. It comes from lived experience—the kind that builds not just a business, but a...
NEW YORK, N.Y. — For over two decades, Nancy Edwards has made a name for herself navigating the intricate worlds of real estate and investment banking. But her greatest asset might not be her deal-closing prowess or her impressive portfolio—it’s her ability to relate. As a Senior Partner at Goldman Funding Partners, based in New...
LOS ANGELES, Calif. – At a time when the commercial real estate industry sees scant representation from the African American community, Haltere Group emerges as a beacon of innovation and empowerment. Founded in 2020 amidst the global upheaval of the COVID-19 pandemic, this Black-owned real estate investment firm has quickly become a symbol of transformative...
Meet Bernard Jones and Georgia Giles-Jones, a couple from Minnesota that have officially launched CVH Recovery, an extension to their recovery home business, Central Village Housing LLC. CVH Recovery offers resources to entrepreneurs how to own, operate, and manage a successful recovery home in any state. Through their online course, entrepreneurs can learn and benefit from...
Denver real estate broker Michelle Thomas remembers well her early days growing up in North Aurora, a rough part of the Denver, Colorado metro area, that includes East Colfax Avenue. Stretching 26.5 miles, it’s the longest commercial street in the United States, but it and the surrounding area is best-known by natives, for longstanding squalid...
Please share your story with us Tamarisk. How did you get to where you are today? We are two black women entrepreneurs and mothers, one southern girl from Alabama and a yankee from upstate New York. We both relocated to Georgia, with no job, big dreams, little money, and a child to care for. Talk...
Please share your story with us. How did you get to where you are today? First and foremost, thank you so much for sharing your platform with me to share my story. It’s an honor and a privilege to share my testimony with you and your readers. I was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama....
It’s never been easier to become a real estate investor. However, there are some major things to keep in mind when getting into the industry. Rhonelle Shallow, Real Estate Investor and Founder of RKS Renovations shares with inCity Magazine how NEW investors can avoid the pitfalls of real estate investing.
Real estate is a cyclical business. Markets crash. Deals sour. But hard landings are rare for a savvy property mogul, thanks to the U.S. tax code. Take Harry Macklowe, a New York City developer. Macklowe, 81, hasn’t paid income tax since the 1980s, according to a court opinion in his divorce proceedings issued in December....
In the aftermath of a disaster that destroys your house, it can be all but impossible to think through everything you’ve lost. Fires, floods, hurricanes, damaged roofs—when you’re putting your life back together, you might not be thinking about how to catalogue your drawer of kitchen utensils for the insurance company. But you don’t want...