Cara Eisenpress is a Features Editor at Crain's New York Business. She covers a range of topics including construction and real estate, business and economics, as well as artificial intelligence and machine learning, with a particular focus on commercial real estate, housing market trends, and innovative technologies like PropTech and generative AI. Cara's work has been featured in Crain's New York Business, 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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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.
South Florida’s Jills Zeder Group is the top residential team in the country by such a wide margin that the second-place team brings in only half their dollar volume. Katherine Kallergis’ reporting on the three principals — Jill Eber, Jill Hertzberg and Judy Zeder — found no dispute of their dominance. But hanging onto the top is a different challenge. The group has one massive advantage: Political and economic realities have sent a flow of high-net-worth buyers, especially billionaire CEOs, from California, Illinois and New York, to their territory. But beyond the good luck (for them), they display a mastery […]
Cara Eisenpress introduces The Real Deal's August issue, with features about Michael Stern, Igal Feibush and Scott Everett.
Onlookers can never be sure who started an argument. Anyone with siblings knows how an unseen slight, poke or glare can escalate. So can a faulty boiler or unfixed appliance if you're a New York City tenant. So can withheld rent or the coordinated reporting of minor violations if you're a landlord.
