ISELIN, NJ—(SBN)—The Industrial and Office Real Estate Brokers Association of the New York Metropolitan Area (IOREBA) will host its Fall Kick-Off Event, Crowdfunding for Commercial Real Estate, on Monday, September 26th at the Renaissance Woodbridge Hotel in Iselin, NJ.
The program will include a discussion on the rise of Crowdfunding platforms and how they are changing the way people are investing in commercial real estate and how this technology is continuing to affect and influence commercial real estate brokers, owners, developers and investors.
“While Crowdfunding has been around for years, more and more real estate professionals are using the Internet platform to benefit their business,” says Jonathan Glick, 2016-2017 IOREBA president, and executive vice president of Sheldon Gross Realty. “I look forward to kicking off the year’s season of IOREBA events and hearing from our peers on how they view Crowdfunding as a source for the betterment of our industry,” he added.
Greg Brown, managing director of NAI DiLeo-Bram & Co. will moderate the panel, which includes William J. Florent, founder of Selequity, a successful commercial real estate Crowdfunding platform; Stephen Cassidy, president of Denholtz Associates; Jason Bogart, owner of Accordia Realty Ventures; and Brian Esquivel, director of investments at Realty Shares, a real estate Crowdfunding company.
For more details, and to register for the event, visit www.ioreba.com, or contact Ann Violette at info@iorbea.com.
With roots dating back to 1927, IOREBA is the nation’s oldest, as well as one of the nation’s largest regional commercial real estate organizations.
Steve Lubetkin is the news director for StateBroadcastNews.com. Steve’s journalism background includes print and broadcast reporting for NJ news organizations. He refocused on multimedia journalism and podcast production after a long career in corporate branded journalism and public relations.
He has won numerous awards for his audio and video news reporting from the Garden State Journalists Association, and he has also been recognized for video by the New Jersey Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. He has produced a wide range of audio and video podcasts in his other role as managing partner of State Broadcast News’s parent, The Lubetkin Media Companies.
Steve is co-author, with Toronto-based podcasting pioneer Donna Papacosta, of the book, The Business of Podcasting: How to Take Your Podcasting Passion from the Personal to the Professional.
In March 2021, he was elected to the board of directors of the New Jersey Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, and in July 2021 he was named secretary of the chapter. In August 2021, he was honored by SPJ with one of the organization’s 2021 Howard S. Dubin Outstanding Pro Member Awards, given to regular members of an SPJ chapter who go above and beyond in serving their chapter.
Steve has been the computer columnist for the Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey, since 1996.
Steve also has reported on-camera and produces virtual conferences for NJSpotlightNews.org, a public policy news coverage website focused on New Jersey government and industry; and for clients of StateBroadcastNews.com, a division of The Lubetkin Media Companies LLC.
From May-November 2019, he produced and reported a weekly podcast, The CRE News Hour, a news and features program focusing on the commercial real estate industry.
From 2014 to 2019 he was New Jersey and Philadelphia editor for GlobeSt.com and filled in covering Chicago/Midwest and Atlanta.
Steve has also served (from August 2017 to March 2018) as national broadcast news correspondent for CEOReport.com, a news website focused on practical advice for senior executives in small- and medium-sized companies.
Earlier in his career, Steve reported on rock music at the Jersey Shore for the Asbury Park Press, and was a broadcast news anchor and production engineer for WJLK-AM & FM, then owned by the Press. He also worked as a general assignment reporter for the Red Bank Register, Shrewsbury, NJ.
You can email Steve at steve@statebroadcastnews.com.
