Brandi Smith is a Digital Anchor at Yahoo News. She specializes in construction and real estate, with a focus on commercial real estate, real estate development, and the logistics that support these industries. Brandi's work has been featured in prominent outlets including KHOU 11, E! Networks, and Rice University.
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By: Brandi Smith
While commercial real estate delinquencies across the broader commercial mortgage-backed securities market have climbed past 6%, self-storage delinquencies have hovered around 0.1%, according to KBRA data cited by Shawn Hill, Principal and Founding Member of The BSC Group.
By: Brandi Smith
She might be advising a small bakery on a lease one moment and helping secure a gigawatt-sized data center the next. That range is not an outlier for Katie Van Dyk. It is the point.
2201 Creekview Drive (Photo courtesy of Cushman & Wakefield.)
By: Brandi Smith
When semiconductor logistics specialist Infinity Link Logistics signed for 87,000 square feet near Samsung’s Taylor plant in the first quarter of 2026, it joined a parade of suppliers chasing the chipmaker into Central Texas.
By: Brandi Smith
Liz Trocchio Smith did not leave corporate leadership because she had reached the end of her career. She left because she realized she had more to offer. After more than three decades in commercial real estate, including senior executive roles at Cushman & Wakefield, The Woodmont Companies and Hines, Trocchio Smith reached a personal inflection point. She had built companies, led offices and mentored countless professionals. What came next was not another title, but a new way to scale impact.
By: Brandi Smith
Most careers in commercial real estate have a single defining act. Martin Bronstein has built several.
Inside Pagewood ’s office, growth didn’t arrive with fanfare. It arrived through systems, shared responsibility and a deliberate decision to build deliberately without outside capital. For Mat Volz and Paul Coonrod, that choice shaped everything that followed.
By: Brandi Smith
For Mehrdad Moayedi, development begins long before the first home is built. It begins with people, with cities and with the responsibility that comes from shaping places where thousands of families will live their lives. As president and CEO of Centurion American Development Group, Moayedi has spent more than four decades building not just projects, but long-term community frameworks across North Texas.
By: Brandi Smith
The biggest misconception about Chicago retail right now, according to Michael Flinchbaugh, is that there is too much of it.
Texas Icon Nikhil Dhanani: Building an Institutional-Grade Real Estate Platform from a Family Enterprise
