Cara Eisenpress is a Features Editor at Crain's New York Business. She specializes in construction and real estate, focusing on commercial real estate, real estate development, investment, and the housing market. Cara's insights and expertise have been featured in notable publications such as Ad Age, Modern Healthcare, and The Real Deal.
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Cara Eisenpress focuses on local news in New York, with a particular emphasis on big tech, real estate, business and industry, software & SaaS, human resources & employment. Her articles often cite data and press releases from government announcements.
If you are reaching out to Cara for coverage or as an expert source, consider providing insights or data related to the impact of big tech companies on the local economy in New York. Additionally, pitches that discuss trends in real estate prices and demand within specific neighborhoods of New York City could be particularly appealing. Furthermore, since she covers topics related to AI regulation and employment statistics specifically for NYC area it would be beneficial if your pitch managed to align with these criteria.
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Once upon a time, developers craved trophy properties like The Plaza Hotel. A series of uber-rich players bought and sold the hotel from the 1980s on.
Cara Eisenpress' editor's note for The Real Deal February 2026 touches on distress buyers, the Alexanders' trial and fights over development.
I t's hard to track the moment when the world accepted private property, but the 17th century was pivotal for the concept. It's not that you couldn't claim land as yours before, just that rights more often came with inheritance or maybe a certain kind of communal ownership. But after philosopher John Locke argued that if you own your body, you own your labor, it caught on that if you worked a piece of land and made it productive, it could — or maybe should — belong to you.
By: Cara Eisenpress
Titled “HOMES ARE FOR PEOPLE, NOT CORPORATIONS,” the bill may not make it through the House's version of the package — or past the President's desk. But it has already spurred debate over whether limiting companies that buy homes will benefit people in search of affordable, appealing housing.
A story about developer Shanna Khan and her commitment to Chicago's Fulton Market anchors this month's issue of The Real Deal.
Cara Eisenpress, managing features editor, on the May 2026 issue stories and why unmitigating desire is blessing and curse in the industry
By: Cara Eisenpress
The Swig Equities and Helmsley Spear owner is advising the Business Improvement District on underutilized commercial real estate.
But there's a problem. The hands closing the deal in this month's cover art have too many fingers, and they're in impossible positions. The intentional uncanniness gets at the anxiety created by this year's shifts in artificial-intelligence technology. New versions of the bots, raised on human output, can write code, tell stories, conduct analysis, give advice and draw pictures. But they are still a little foolish.
As tech firms lay off and investment flows to data centers instead of office towers, commercial real estate searches for the real impact.
Los Angeles' Runyon Group tells TRD about plans to pioneer overlooked Water Mill village with record $39M retail buy.
