Pawel Kentaro, a seasoned real estate expert, is paving the way for investors seeking lucrative opportunities in Latin America through strategic investments in Mexicos dynamic property market. With his unparalleled expertise and in-depth knowledge of the region, Kentaro is opening doors to real estate investment, unlocking the potential for sustainable growth and financial prosperity.
Latin America: A Hotbed of Real Estate Potential: Latin America boasts a diverse and rapidly evolving real estate landscape fueled by economic growth, urbanization, and a rising middle class. Pawel Kentaro recognizes the untapped potential of the region, particularly in Mexico, where favorable demographics, government incentives, and strategic location make it an attractive destination for investors seeking high returns and long-term stability.
Mexico: Gateway to Opportunity: As one of the largest economies in Latin America, Mexico serves as a gateway to opportunity for real estate investors. Kentaro sheds light on Mexicos vibrant property market, characterized by robust demand for residential, commercial, and industrial properties. He highlights key factors driving investment, including demographic trends, infrastructure development, and tourism growth.
Strategic Investment Hubs: Kentaro identifies strategic investment hubs across Mexico, from cosmopolitan cities like Mexico City and Monterrey to resort destinations such as Cancún and Los Cabos. Each region offers unique opportunities for investors, from luxury condominiums and beachfront villas to commercial office spaces and industrial parks.
Navigating Regulatory Landscape: While Mexico presents lucrative investment prospects, navigating the regulatory landscape can be complex. Kentaro provides invaluable insights into legal considerations, land ownership regulations, and tax implications for foreign investors. By offering expert guidance and comprehensive due diligence, he ensures that investors can navigate regulatory hurdles with confidence.
Sustainable Development Initiatives: Kentaro emphasizes the importance of sustainable development in real estate investment. He highlights Mexicos commitment to environmental conservation and community engagement, encouraging investors to prioritize projects that promote eco-friendly practices, social responsibility, and inclusive growth.
Opportunities for Diverse Investors: Whether investors are seeking residential properties, commercial ventures, or hospitality projects, Kentaro provides tailored solutions to meet their diverse needs and objectives. From first-time buyers to seasoned developers, he offers personalized guidance and investment strategies to maximize returns and mitigate risks.
Capitalizing on Market Trends: Kentaro stays ahead of market trends, identifying emerging opportunities and adapting investment strategies accordingly. He monitors shifts in consumer preferences, technological advancements, and global economic trends to ensure that investors capitalize on evolving market dynamics and stay ahead of the curve.
Building Strategic Partnerships: Collaboration is key to success in the real estate industry. Kentaro fosters strategic partnerships with local developers, government agencies, and industry stakeholders to facilitate investment opportunities and drive sustainable growth. By leveraging his extensive network and expertise, he creates synergies that benefit investors and communities alike.
Empowering Investors for Success: Through education, empowerment, and personalized support, Kentaro empowers investors to achieve their real estate goals and unlock their full potential in Latin America. He provides access to exclusive market insights, investment opportunities, and resources, empowering investors to make informed decisions and build wealth for the future.
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Pawel Kentaro Grendys is a leading expert in Latin American real estate. His background includes residential and commercial experience, and he offers extensive knowledge about local investment laws and building codes.
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here are more than one million management consulting firms in the United States, all collectively expected to generate almost $370 billion in revenue this year, according to IBISWorld. Across dozens of industries, consultants throughout the country help companies navigate challenges and seize opportunities in IT strategy, risk management, digital transformation and more.
Still, in such a large market, it can be difficult to discern which consulting firms are delivering the best results in their respective fields. That’s why Forbes partnered with market research company Statista to garner the opinions of industry insiders and create our ninth annual list of America’s Best Management Consulting Firms 2024.
The list is based on two surveys conducted from mid-November 2023 to mid-January 2024: a peer-to-peer survey open to partners and executives at management consulting firms; and a survey of clients who had worked with management consulting firms in the past four years. Both groups evaluated consulting firms within their areas of knowledge across 16 different industries (such as healthcare, consumer goods and insurance) and 16 different functional areas (including human resources, operations, and innovation and growth).
More than 1,100 partners and executives at management consulting firms recommended peers in their industry (respondents were not permitted to recommend themselves), and more than 1,200 clients recommended consulting firms. Last year’s results were considered as well.
All of the responses were combined into a scoring model that weighted this year’s recommendations more heavily than last year’s. And recommendations from the management consultants were weighted more heavily than those from clients.
Ultimately, the consulting firms with the most recommendations in each category were given star ratings: five stars for “very frequently recommended,” four stars for “frequently recommended” and three stars for “recommended.” The final list highlights 190 companies.
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As with all Forbes lists, companies do not pay any fee to be considered. For questions about this list, please contact listdesk [at] Forbes.com.
Vice President Kamala Harris visited Durham on Friday to announce the Biden-Harris administration’s plan to invest $92 million in early stage startups in North Carolina. The visit was part of the administration’s Investing in America tour.
Harris said the Biden-Harris administration has been intentional about the work it is doing to invest in communities.
Harris said $32 million in federal funds will go towards 10 North Carolina venture capital firms under the Treasury Department’s State Small Business Credit Initiative. This includes RevTech Labs, a majority female and Latina-owned entrepreneurship center; LaVert Ventures, a woman-owned AgTech fund; and Nex Cubed, which houses a historically Black colleges and universities founders fund for HBCU alumni to launch entrepreneurial endeavors.
This investment will propel an additional $60 million in private investment in North Carolina, totaling $92 million in funds being dedicated to growing small businesses.
Gov. Roy Cooper welcomed Harris to the state for the 10th time during her term as vice president.
The event took place on Durham’s historic Black Wall Street. Cooper opened the remarks with a statement on the importance of investing in minority-led businesses.
“There are a lot of smart people with great ideas and a work ethic who, with some capital investment, can start a successful business,” Cooper said. “Yet in the private sector, Black-led companies receive only 1% of venture funding, and only 2% of venture funding goes to women.”
Cooper said the Biden-Harris administration has done important work in expanding opportunities for everyone, especially underserved and underutilized businesses, citing the creation of 2.6 million jobs for Black workers.
Harris underscored Cooper’s emphasis on providing communities with adequate resources and access to opportunity.
“That is the map in terms of what we are talking about,” Harris said. “It is about meeting the capacity of communities with the resources that are necessary to strengthen our economy, and we all benefit from that.”
Harris said this announcement is consistent with her and Biden’s campaign promises.
“Many of you may know, the president and I, from the beginning of our administration, made a pledge — which we are on track to meet — to increase by 50% federal contracts going to minority-owned businesses,” Harris said.
Harris said more federal contracts going towards minority-owned businesses is the right thing to do, but also makes financial and economical sense.
“Because the bottom line — and yes, the bottom line, I speak in economic terms — is that this produces an extraordinary return on investment,” Harris said. “And that is as much as any other reason why we are doing this work together with our partners.”
Depending on who’s doing the estimating, America is short anywhere from 2 million to 6 million homes. If you’ve tried to buy or rent a place in the past year, or you know anyone who has, then you didn’t need me to tell you that. Hardly anything’s on the market, and none of us can afford what is. The question is: Why?
That simple question, oddly, has been impossible to answer with any real precision. The housing shortage may be national, but the problem is local. Where homes get built, how many, what type, how big the lot has to be, how many meetings it takes to build something new — those things are all governed by zoning rules. And every town and village and city zones itself. Which means there are more than 30,000 different sets of zoning rules in America. When it comes to housing, we’re a nation of islands, governed by no central authority.
To make matters worse, each of those 30,000 islands has its very own language for those rules. Many maps favor the suburban ideal of single-family homes on expansive lots, while essentially disallowing every other form of housing. One place might call a two-family home a duplex (and allow it), where another code might call it a “townhome” or just “multifamily” (and nix it). In some places, “mixed-use” means a neighborhood that combines homes and shops (nope!); in others it means a combination of offices and industry (sure, why not?). Some cities have maps digitally coded into a standard geospatial data format; other towns still use paper. In city after city, the rules are woefully outdated, head-scratchingly obscure, or outright racist.
If you could decipher all those rules, and make comparisons between different cities and states, you might be able to figure out which rules let more homes get built, and which ones don’t. But no one has ever assembled America’s zoning regulations in one place, let alone force them to use the same words to mean the same things — until now.
For the first time, a team of researchers is compiling every city’s zoning rules into a National Zoning Atlas. That means everyone from policymakers to homeowners will be able to look at their local zoning maps and understand their town’s hidden architecture. And maybe, armed with that information, we’ll finally be able to remodel America’s fixer-upper of zoning policies into a tasteful showcase for starter homes and cheap apartments.
“Zoning is hugely influential on all of our lives, and people don’t know enough about it,” says Sara Bronin, an architect and attorney at Cornell University who founded the atlas. “Our project really aims to demystify these hidden rules, and encourage policymakers, researchers, and advocates to mine that information.”
The atlas also aims to translate the nation’s multitude of local zoning rules into what Bronin calls a “common set of definitions and practices” — a rationality that will enable analysts, at long last, to make “apples-to-apples comparisons.” In other words, we’ll finally be able to say, with certainty, which policies build more homes and bring prices down, and which policies don’t.
It’s still early — so far the atlas includes only 2,000 jurisdictions populated by 35 million Americans. That’s because it’s more than just a massive data project, crunching code into computers. “It’s a legal research project,” Bronin says, “one of the biggest legal research projects on local government law that has ever existed. We are effectively reading hundreds of thousands of pages of local ordinances and regulations.”
It’s hard to underestimate how powerful a tool the atlas will be. Bronin says people are already using it to effect policy changes — like the woman in Milford, Connecticut, who printed out screenshots from the atlas to persuade her town to change its policy prohibiting residents from building guest-house-type units in their backyards. Milford’s official zoning map was an incomprehensible mosaic of microscale neighborhood rules — but the easier-to-read atlas enabled the Milfordites to prove their case, and demand change.
Or look at the even bigger changes that were enacted in Montana, where housing prices spiked sharply during the pandemic as more people moved to Big Sky Country from out of state. Armed with the apples-to-apples zoning maps contained in the atlas, advocates for zoning reform were able to compare the rules in Montana with those of California. Cities and towns in both states, they could see, penalize or outright prohibit duplexes and other forms of housing that bring down prices and help prevent urban sprawl.
“We were able to come into legislative hearings and say: Here’s a map of Missoula’s zoning, here’s where you can build duplexes, and here’s where you can’t. And then we’d put a map next to it of Los Angeles’ zoning, and they looked identical,” says Kendall Cotton, a prime mover behind the push for zoning reform. “We said: Look, if Missoula zones like LA, it’s going to grow like LA. And in 25 years, it’s going to look a lot like LA.”
The beauty of that argument is that it appealed to both sides of the political divide — and not just because everybody came together over their shared hatred of Los Angeles. Enacting a more permissive set of zoning rules gave everyone something they wanted. Lefty political leaders knew that sprawl fuels climate change and that housing shortages exacerbate inequality. Right-leaning folks hoped to preserve their right to build whatever they wanted inside their own property lines.
“When we put it on a map, it was undeniable,” Cotton says. “They had to face facts and admit that what their zoning code represents is not conducive to building all the homes they’re going to need.” Montana passed new rules to accommodate smaller multiunit buildings and allow duplexes anywhere single-family homes are. Neighborhoods can now put homes and businesses side by side. And cities now have to meet aggressive targets for new home construction.
Of course, the atlas alone won’t fix everything. Sometimes outdated, racist, exclusionary zoning rules exist because the people who already own homes have seen their values skyrocket and want to keep things the way they are. It’s hard to imagine a map solving that.
“Land-use policy is politics,” says Yonah Freemark, a researcher at the Urban Institute who studies housing. “We can say all we want about what the data show, and hopefully that can help make a political point. But in reality, this requires elected officials and community groups to make the case for change. That’s a political question, not a data question.”
Freemark thinks the National Zoning Atlas is likely to make more of a difference at the state level than the local one. Yes, cities and towns make their own zoning rules. But state governments can overrule them, and the atlas may arm them with the information they need to do so. That was certainly the case in Montana. “Local governments would say to us, confidentially, that they were thankful, because the statewide legislation forces their hand,” Cotton says. “They can say it’s the legislature’s fault: Sorry, NIMBYs, now we’re all in on zoning reform.”
Still, even when changes are implemented, it will take more than a single legislative session to solve a shortage created by decades of underbuilding. “The state of California has been passing zoning change after zoning change,” Freemark says, “but it’s still facing low housing construction statewide.” But we have to start somewhere — and the atlas offers us a chance, for the first time, to make sense of the housing mess we’ve created.
It’s no coincidence that Bronin, the founder of the atlas, loves Italo Calvino’s “Invisible Cities.” in the novel, a tale-spinning Marco Polo describes to Kublai Khan dozens of cities in the emperor’s far-flung realm that may or may not exist, or may only exist because Polo describes them. That’s the thing about zoning: It doesn’t map what is (which homes are where) but what could be (which homes are allowed to go where). It’s a map of the future — and the future isn’t fixed. There’s an old saying: The map is not the terrain. That’s true. But the right map can change it.
Adam Rogers is a senior correspondent at Business Insider.