I’ve been getting a lot of (email) questions lately about what to study in order to become a real estate developer. So I thought I would reblog this post that talks about exactly that. I wrote it over a year ago and I almost forgot it existed.… Read More
All posts tagged “education”
Fred Wilson on where the New York tech ecosystem is heading
Venture capitalist Fred Wilson is the poster boy for the New York tech industry. And this morning he posted an interesting video on his blog of a recent talk he did at Google NYC. At the 4:50 mark he begins talking about the evolution of… Read More
Learning to build real estate financial models
One of the things I did when I was in graduate school studying real estate and early on in my career was take a bunch of ARGUS and Excel modeling classes. Some of them I took through the University of Pennsylvania. Some of them I… Read More
What you should study to become a real estate developer
One of the most common questions I receive from readers is about what to study in school in order to become a real estate developer. Here’s one of those questions: “Thank you so much for your insight into the real estate development process! I was… Read More
Education is what drives urban economic success
The following chart is from City Observatory. It compares per capita income against the college attainment rate for the largest US metropolitan areas. If you hover over a circle it’ll tell you the metro area and what the precise numbers are. If you can’t see… Read More
An MBA post-mortem from a real estate guy
This post originally appeared on the Rotman Morning & Evening MBA blog. As a recent graduate of Rotman’s Morning MBA program (and presumably because somebody over there reads Architect This City), I was asked to write a guest post for their MBA blog. More specifically,… Read More
What makes a city great? [Video]
Each year Monocle publishes a ranking of the top 25 cities around the world in terms of quality of life. Different than most city rankings, the survey goes beyond the more typical metrics around crime, education and so on, and also looks at some of the… Read More
A petition for Canada to annex the Turks and Caicos Islands
If you’re looking for the petition to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, click here. Last Monday the Premier of the Turks and Caicos Islands, Rufus Ewing, was in Canada visiting with Prime Minister Stephen Harper. The purpose of the trip was to “boost ties” between the… Read More