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IREM kicked off its 2021 Global Summit--its first in-person Summit in two years--in grand style. There was fun, to be sure, and plenty of networking--with masks, yes--but face-to-face at last. [...]

That straightforward assessment of the current post-COVID-19 state of affairs comes from Cindy Fisher, CPM, president of McLean, Virginia-based Kettler, AMO. That cautionary note is twofold. First, the world is [...]

Service has always been at the forefront of the property manager's goals. Everything she or he does, no matter how oriented to nuts and bolts, is done in service to [...]

There is an increasingly common theme around our ongoing experience with COVID-19. Namely, despite the watershed changes the pandemic has made to our relationship with work, productivity, and how we [...]

Health and wellness are not new concepts for IREM members. But the past year has seen a marked increase in their level of awareness as CPMs strive to ensure they're [...]

Does the following scenario ring a bell? 'Our company had one of our best years ever in 2019, and 2020 looked to be much the same in terms of all [...]

Simply put, the Virtual IREM Summit 2020 was the next best thing to being there. This year's event delivered on (virtually) all counts, with a nonstop menu of in-depth keynote [...]

'The pandemic hasn't changed life as much as it has accelerated the speed of changes already taking place.' So says Pepe Gutierrez, CPM, founder of Megafincas Alicante S.L., a manager [...]

Budget season is Upon US. But in reality, for strategically focused property managers, it never ends. 'I'm even getting tired of the phrase 'budget season,'' says Salvatore Dragone, CPM, CCIM. [...]

Among the teams of heroes charged with public health and safety during the COVID-19 pandemic, property managers are key, charged with ensuring the safety of their tenants/residents, staff and guests [...]

From the opening general session to the closing gala, IREM fully lived the theme of its annual Global Summit: 'Forward.' Indeed, the Summit, held this year in San Francisco, emphasized [...]

No surprise to anyone in business, the foreign presence in the U.S. economy is on the rise. In fact, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis reports that 'Expenditures by foreign [...]

Oil and water don't mix. Very often, neither do building occupants of different types thrown together in the same complex. Welcome to the reality of mixed-use assets, and it falls [...]

Pure and simple, 'the No. 1 factor for a renewal comes down to the response time from a property manager as it pertains to maintenance,' says Robert J. Finlay, CPM. [...]

Communication is a very personal thing, reliant on the style of the communicator and the receptivity of the recipient. Communication in business is especially challenging since it carries with it [...]

Industry recognition is only the outward face of the roll-up-their-sleeves hard work that winners put into their businesses. You know the old saying about icebergs and what lies below the [...]

WHEN IT COMES TO THE ISSUES THAT PROPERTY MAN24-01-2019 16:03:01here's both a great diversity and unity of thought. There are issues that are unique to specific locales and those that [...]

It's been a whirlwind year for the Institute of Real Estate Management:further expansion into global markets, renewed commitments to such industry-defining issues as diversity, sustainability and technology, and the always [...]

They say that war can be understood only by those who have experienced it. The same is true of natural disasters. Both parties in this second of JPM's two-part series [...]

WITH ALL THE FEARS OF IDENTITY THEFT AND CYBER-HACKING THAT EXIST IN THIS POST-DIGITIZED WORLD OF OURS, A CLOUD-BASED DEPOSITORY OF FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS MIGHT NOT SEEM LIKE THE SAFEST BET. [...]

On May 31 of this year, Rosemary Carueci Goss, Ph.D., and 15 of her students in the property management program at Virginia Tech returned from a two-week trip to Germany [...]

A safe, secure place to live and work is part of the American dream, and properly managers are on the front lines of making that dream accessible. But what happens [...]

People in the know--namely, managers, owners, synclieators, developers--understand to its fullest the concept and mission of fair housing. The general public, not so much. In recent years, we've made great [...]

The collective and collected wisdom of the professionals who make up the membership of IREM is pretty impressive. My years interviewing CPMs for various IREM content areas (this space included) [...]

Have a chat with IREM's 2018 president, J. Benjamin McGrew, CPM, CCIM, and you'll hear a lot about member connectivity. Connectivity with other members, with leadership and with other professional [...]

Imagine yourself driving over a bridge. At night. With no guardrails. An unlikely and foolhardy enterprise, to be sure. But that's exactly the type of risk property managers take if [...]

What is the biggest issue facing your business? Is it hiring and maintaining talent? Ensuring ongoing profitability? Staying ahead of the competition? Quality control and consistency of service? We asked [...]

It's not a phrase we hear that often this year, but the industrial sector has a unique problem: There's not enough space to satisfy demand. According to Sam Chanin, CPM, [...]

THERE'S A DOWNSIDE TO TALENT MANAGEMENT namely the occasional need to let someone go. It's awkward, uncomfortable for both parties involved and, other than in incidents of criminal or outright [...]

The properties represented by IREM membership are very much like a fingerprint. Each one is different. And therein lies the challenges of choosing a provider of property technologies--proptech in the [...]

Like most commercial and residential real estate, medical office buildings are in a time of transition. Unlike typical retail, office or multifamily, however, the nature of medical office demands a [...]

An industry standard. That's how Jeff Bosshard, CPM, president of Woodmont Real Estate Services' multifamily operations, sees the IREM Certified Sustainable Property program. He ought to know. Woodmont's Waterford Place [...]

By now you've probably noticed the ubiquitous presence of technology, applied to everything from your home's garage door opener to the systems that control virtually every capability of the buildings [...]

Can a property manager move into asset management? While it is possible and can be done, property managers looking to advance their careers to move into the higher paying asset [...]

We tend to draw a line between the two halves of our brain--the creative and the measured. We speak of arts and sciences as if they must exist in parallel [...]

While IREM sets aside September as Ethics Awareness Month (as it has for four consecutive years), the issue is clearly one of year-round importance. We recently sat down with two [...]

Succession planning is one of those necessities that often remains a permanent resident of the to-do list. All business managers seem to know its importance to the efficient mid- and [...]

Earlier this year, IREM hosted some major industry heavyweights in January for our first IREM Commercial Summit--from the institutional side were such names as Bentall Kennedy, Deutsche Bank, Inland Real [...]

Joe Greenblatt, CPM, believes you have to spend money to make money--at least when it comes to staffing up. It's a critical part of successful expansion, he recently told JPM®, [...]

IREM recently pulled the curtain back on its latest White Paper, exploring the changing relationship between property and asset management. A Shifting Dynamic: Asset vs Property Management is a combination [...]

It might be that when you hear the phrase micro-unit, images of the Marx Brothers arise, stuffing a steamer trunk into a matchbook-sized state room. You'd be wrong. Micro-units today [...]

If you want something done, ask a busy person. So said Benjamin Franklin, who sounds like he may have known Blaire Moreland. Unlikely, however. Moreland is only 22. But busy [...]

Beth Machen, CPM, knows green. The IREM past president and head of Machen Advisory Group in Charlotte, N.C., not only has her LEED AP certification, but, in addition, as IREM [...]

In a recent IREM blog, we reported that there are actually companies that appreciate, rather than devalue, the experience that comes with age. The blog also enumerated a number of [...]

Whether it's your home or office, relocations are a fact of your life. They are events--most often with a capital E--that typically carry with them mixed reactions of fear and [...]

John Combs, CPM, takes mentorship very seriously. He himself was the recipient of positive mentorship early in his career, and it is something he fosters for the 130 employees of [...]

The motto at Plano, Texas-based Granite Properties is 'Inspiring people to flourish in the spaces we create.' It's a thought that speaks as well for the company itself as much [...]

THINKING ABOUT A CAREER SHIFT FROM PROPERTY MANAGEMENT TO ASSET MANAGEMENT? RANDY FERREIRA. CPM, HAS SOME ADVICE ON THE SUBJECT FERREIRA. MANAGING PARTNER OF BLUE ROCK PARTNERS LLC, IN TAMPA. [...]

DAWN CARPENTER, CPM, has a full plate. But then again, it seems she always has. Carpenter heads Dawning Real Estate, AMO, a full-service firm she founded on Staten Island, N.Y., [...]

Have the ability to listen, abandon your ego and focus on the big picture. These three concepts form the foundation of a good mentoring program. And mentoring is key to [...]