Imagine your great-grandchildren hearing your advice — in your own voice — 50 years from now. Legacy planning has less to do with death than it does with keeping your stories, principles, words of wisdom, jokes, and so much more from disappearing after you’ve gone. I asked my parents (ages 98 and 85) to define legacy planning, and they gave me the same definition you probably thought of, too. They spoke about wills and trusts. But many of today’s financial planners, including one of my friends,

A broker posts a caption about a new industrial building in Paramus, NJ: three sentences, a few hashtags, and a […]

A superintendent needing to document a foundation pour schedules a drone flight; the footage is added to the daily progress […]

Move-in day, tuition deadlines, a new apartment to furnish, a part-time job to land before the first loan or rent payment comes due… Late summer creates a financial obstacle course for students and the parents and grandparents helping them navigate it. Scammers know it — and time their attacks accordingly.

During a conversation at a recent CREA United meeting, one participant threw out a number: $200,000 to separately meter a […]

It’s late summer 2026, and one major American holding company is sitting on nearly $4 billion in cash and short-term […]

Today is Labor Day -- will you wear white after today? At some point after 2013 (about the time I transitioned from a 20-year teaching career into a writing career, which included the wonderful ability to work from home), the fashion industry and I

You’ll find vacant units sitting empty in every market, not because the location is poor, but because no one can […]

Much of the AI conversation in the commercial real estate world centers on brokers, landlords, and the buildings themselves. But […]

In a recent CREA United meeting, someone noted that fewer companies are chasing a single 50,000-100,000-square-foot block downtown, opting instead […]

(Even when Zoom would be easier) Someone in the CREA United group mentioned recently, half jokingly and half seriously, that […]

If you’ve done any job-hunting since 2020, you’ve probably experienced this scenario: You apply for a job for which you’re clearly qualified, and before you’ve even recorded the job app on your spreadsheet, a rejection arrives in minutes. Trust me. A human didn’t read your resume — a software platform did. And it decided (rightly or wrongly) that you weren’t worth a second look.

Many people find comfort in telling themselves that old debt, if ignored long enough, disappears. After seven years, it falls off your credit report, and that’s that. Case closed. Ghost exorcised. It’s a lovely story, but it’s also a fallacy. And a growing industry of debt collectors is counting on this misbelief.

And what it means for the smaller medical office space For over a decade, the story in healthcare real estate […]

One inheritance never appears in a will: a credit score. But you can give this gift years before a young person has a job, an apartment, or an idea of what a credit score is for. The tool making this gift possible is the authorized user strategy, sometimes called piggybacking. More families are using this multi-generational plan to help their kids (and grandkids) get a head start.

Imagine not having to shop anymore because your “agent” does it for you. That’s the pitch, at least. One of the 2026 buzzwords is agentic commerce, and if you’ve noticed a “Buy” button in a chatbot or heard your kids say they let AI handle their grocery reorders to save time, welcome to a new trend. Agentic commerce is real, growing quickly, and worth understanding before it appears in your digital shopping cart (or online account) with little fanfare or warning.

If you’ve ever asked a broker, “What’s this property worth?” and gotten an answer within a week or so, you […]

A regulatory change buried in federal financial aid law is handing grandparents one of the strongest college-funding tools in years. It’s not exactly new — it took effect with the 2024-2025 FAFSA — but its implications are flying under the radar for most families. Here’s the TL;DR: Grandparents can fund a 529 college savings account for a grandchild and pay tuition directly from it with zero impact on that student’s financial aid eligibility. Before 2024, that wasn’t the case.

Before a scammer asks for a wire transfer, gift card, or your bank login, they usually ask for something much smaller: quiet.

Splitting a multi-tenant building into separate utility meters can cost tens of thousands of dollars. So does retrofitting an office […]