The Atlantic Builders Convention has returned to Atlantic City this week, a year after Gov. Phil Murphy signed a landmark bill to expand affordable housing across New Jersey and potentially impact the thousands of professionals who attend the conference. With this year’s event now underway, organizers say the law has set the stage for a long-overdue, broad-based focus on housing by state policymakers, from mentions in Murphy’s State of the State and budget addresses to a package of bills now moving through the Legislature. ...

Governor Phil Murphy welcomed 2025 by celebrating the year-over-year population growth rate in New Jersey, where the number of residents climbing to an estimated 9,500,851, according to the latest data from the U.S. Census Bureau, an increase of 1.3% or 121,209 from 2023. According to the governor’s Office, “New Jersey experienced a 2.3% population increase — or 211,837 new residents — since April 2020, which marked the release of the Decennial Census data. This consistent growth highlights New Jersey's ongoing upward population trend.” 

The New Jersey Builders Association has installed Debra Tantleff as its chair for a second term, as it prepares for the rollout of the state’s new affordable housing law and other key policies. The organization said Tantleff, the founding principal of TANTUM Real Estate and an active member for more than 20 years, was elected earlier this week alongside six other officers for 2025. 

On December 19, the Simon Wiesenthal Center brought one of its nationally renowned Mobile Museums of Tolerance to the State House in Trenton for a legislative showcase. The event is part of an effort to have the State of New Jersey join its counterparts in New York, Illinois, California, Florida, Massachusetts, Hawaii, and even Canada in sponsoring one of these critical educational assets.

The new chair of the N.J. Builders Association continues to be a role model for so many for her consistent support of affordable housing, veterans housing, women in the industry, the next generation of real estate professionals — and for Israel.

Over the past decade, the homebuilding industry in New Jersey has welcomed and supported countless new rule proposals and code changes that advance the resiliency and energy efficiency of new homes. From mandatory electric vehicle charging stations to enhanced green infrastructure stormwater requirements, the New Jersey Builders Association continues to recognize that new home construction represents the best opportunity to further efficiency and resiliency in the face of a changing climate.  ...

Group’s biennial event details the journey and the road ahead for women in workforce.  Ruthi Zinn Byrne, during a delightful fireside chat with Jeannie LaRue Tuesday night, entertained the crowd with a story about the first time she entered a room as a board member.  ...

The most significant factor contributing to New Jersey’s housing affordability crisis is a lack of supply.   Add in other factors such as high property taxes, decades of suppressed housing production, a lack of developable land, restrictive land constraints, high regulatory costs, and a shortage of labor.  ...

On Saturday, dozens of Collingswood residents filed into the new public safety building for the second community input session on the water tower area revitalization project. The session lasted nearly two hours, as many residents and business owners asked questions ...

A proposal would replace nearly two acres of surface parking in downtown Collingswood with two apartment buildings, a parking garage, and a public plaza. Not everyone is pleased.

The project would add 155 new residential units in two buildings across a 1.8-acre parcel behind Haddon Avenue. Resident priorities include accessibility, public amenities, green space, and affordability.

The borough will sign a memorandum of agreement with a group comprising Tantum Real Estate, Pennrose, RHO Residential Property Management, and Thriven Design. 

It's no secret that affordable housing is one of the area's biggest needs. Here's a solution to the region's ongoing crisis, advocates say.

Developers are cautiously optimistic about new legislation to streamline affordable housing production in New Jersey, but it’s far from their only public policy objective in 2024. Chief among them is a law that was enacted last year, drawing praise from the New Jersey Builders Association and other groups, allowing building owners to hire third-party, private-sector professionals to obtain faster code inspections.

It’s time to get with the times. We’ve grown tired of hearing from people who say they can’t find women to run their company, be in a top leadership role, sit on a board — or even be on a panel.

It’s time to get with the times. We’ve grown tired of hearing from people who say they can’t find women to run their company, be in a top leadership role, sit on a board — or even be on a panel.

Multifamily projects proliferate as Garden State outbuilds New York.  For Bruce Beal, the view from his office at 30 Hudson Yards is a persistent reminder of being late to the party. Looking west from the 73rd floor, the Related Companies president can see the Jersey City skyline, where glassy towers have rapidly sprouted up along the Hudson River.

The future of any economy — especially one with a hybrid workforce — is having cool
places to live and work. The people on this list are making that happen.

The New Jersey Builders Association has installed Debra Tantleff as its new board chair, tapping a key figure in the industry as it prepares for a new year of advocacy and education for thousands of professionals involved in housing construction.

The New Jersey Builders Association on Thursday announced that Debra Tantleff was installed as chair of the organization at its Jan. 17 board of directors meeting in Jersey City. Tantleff operates a certified Women’s Business Enterprise boutique development and advisory firm, TANTUM Real Estate, which is focused on creating vibrant multifamily and mixed-use communities in the New Jersey region.

The impact of commercial real estate on business in New Jersey is so far-reaching it can be difficult to measure.

From the booming e-commerce and logistics sector, to the ongoing, long-lasting growth of multifamily …

A recent Rutgers Center for Real Estate (RCRE) report concluded that current state standards inflate the amount of parking spaces needed in new residential developments. The report is part of a series of RCRE white papers that seek to set an educational framework for accurate issues in the real estate industry.

New research suggests reductions in parking space requirements for apartment projects can lower development costs and rents and lessen environmental impacts. Parking regulations are a central zoning component of apartment development in the U.S. But, requiring developers to create more parking than necessary hurts renters and discourages the creation of affordable and workforce housing.

This exclusive list of 150 business leaders will be honored by ROI-NJ, N.J. Chamber at grand event on Nov. 30. Here it is: The list of the Top 150 business leaders in the state of New Jersey. An impressive group — made up of leaders from every sector and from every region of the state.

Reducing parking spaces can save money and minimize environmental impact, a Rutgers University white paper found. The study, which gathered information on parking usage at 28,000 units total, found renters used 1.60 spaces per unit on average at garden-style properties and 1.08 per unit on average at high-rises. Both of these usage ratios are well below New Jersey state requirements.

Pulling into a new multifamily parking lot and finding plenty of available parking is becoming a more common occurrence. And, while it may seem like an ideal situation, it’s not. Too many mandatory parking spots is bad for residents (who have to pay increased costs), bad for the environment (concrete has a carbon problem) — and bad for the creation of additional affordable and workforce housing New Jersey so desperately needs (units are too expensive to build).

Demand for parking at multifamily properties in New Jersey is well below what state guidelines require, according to a newly released study by the Rutgers Center for Real Estate, highlighting the potential to reduce construction costs, improve housing affordability and soften the environmental impact of new development by easing state mandates.

Entrepreneurs like Sadiyyah Maamoon have opened businesses in downtown Woodbury well ahead of a proposed Broad Street residential development and with possible light rail service.

Deb Tantleff of TANTUM Real Estate, Mitch Berkey of Chiesa, Shahinian & Giantomasi and Lindsey & Jared Hutter of Aptitude Development will be honored by Israel Bonds during a 75th anniversary celebration of Israel on Sept. 13 at the Crystal Plaza in Livingston. Tantleff, the founding principal of TANTUM, will be given the Golda Meir Award.

“New Jersey has a storied history of working to address affordable housing. For over five decades, municipalities and developers have collaborated and/or clashed in state agencies and in the courts,“ noted Tom D’Allessio, Vice President of Policy, American Planning Association, NJ Chapter.

It’s 2023. And it’s time to realize: The future is female — and the future already is here. We’re tired of hearing from people who say they can’t find women to run their company, sit on their board, take a top leadership role or even simply be on a panel of thought leaders. It’s shameful. And, once again, with the release of the 2023 ROI Influencers: Women in Business, we’re proving that the state is overflowing with qualified female leaders who are ready, willing and eager to do all of the above.

The New Jersey Builders Association has installed its new executive board, including a 45-year construction and real estate industry veteran as its president for the next 12 months. Frank Belgiovine, CEO and president of Belmont Construction Corp., is among five elected officers who were sworn in this week by the housing industry trade group. He is NJBA’s 70th board president, succeeding Thomas Bovino and helping lead an organization that includes 1,000 member companies such as builders, remodelers, material suppliers, subcontractors, consultants, lenders, utilities and others involved in housing- and building-related fields.

The Rutgers Center for Real Estate has launched a study that it hopes will capture real-time data on parking usage at residential properties in New Jersey, as it pushes for updates to the decades-old standards that towns and cities use to guide land use and redevelopment.

The Rutgers Center for Real Estate has launched a study that it hopes will capture real-time data on parking usage at residential properties in New Jersey, as it pushes for updates to the decades-old standards that towns and cities use to guide land use and redevelopment.

New Jersey has created robust economic development programs that have helped businesses survive the COVID-19 pandemic and grow the innovation economy. However, a continuing workforce shortage, inflation and recessionary fears, burdensome government regulations, and high taxes, coupled with the high cost of building, are challenges for businesses that want to start up or expand in the state.

From developers and financiers to service providers and sector experts, to public officials and, of course, the icons of the industry, the 2022 ROl Influencers: Real Estate list honors the top players in the sector.

CCR Woman's Routable attendees discuss the trends—and other things—as we head into a new year. There is no discounting the extreme lengths the commercial construction industry went to keep things moving ahead during our recent once in a lifetime pandemic. But if anyone thought that was going to slow down the industry, they were sadly mistaken.

New Jersey is facing an acute housing shortage. Nationally, we are millions of housing units short of meeting demand, and the situation is proportionally worse in New Jersey.

Completed in September of 2021, the Veteran's Housing Project is a new 20-unit, 4-story affordable housing rental project built on a long-vacant corner lot of Ocean Avenue in Jersey City, an area of great need.

Thirteen projects noted for the community and economic benefits they deliver to their respective environments. 

We’re tired of hearing from people who say they can’t find women to run their company, sit on their board, take a top leadership role or even simply be on a panel of thought leaders.

We get it, residential real estate is hot. But if you’re looking for a new neighborhood featuring four-bedroom homes with a nice yard … you come to the wrong place.  These developers are the ones creating the multi-family residential, office, mixed-use and industrial facilities that are needed today (and tomorrow). Their market, in many cases, is just as hot.

JERSEY CITY, NJ - Local veterans facing housing insecurity may soon have a roof over their head, thanks to the completion of a 21,700-square-foot veterans’ housing complex in Jersey City, which opened on November 30.

Housing options for veterans expanded in Hudson County at the start of this week with the completion of a 21,700-square-foot complex in Jersey City.

TANTUM Real Estate, local stakeholders, and elected officials recently attended the ribbon-cutting event for the affordable veterans housing community in the Greenville neighborhood of Jersey City.

While elected officials and economic thought leaders debate the merits of any number of programs that can be used to jump-start the post-pandemic economy, business leaders know an old axiom still holds true: Real estate leads the way.

For Debra Tantleff, founding principal of Tantum Real Estate and a longtime developer in the state, the ribbon-cutting Tuesday at 526 Ocean Ave. in Jersey City was different from the many others she has attended.

Tantum Real Estate has opened the doors to a new boutique apartment building in Jersey City that will provide affordable housing to military veterans and other residents.

Specialized for veterans and at-risk populations, the community provides quality, affordable housing, along with onsite supportive services.

For any developer seeking a joint venture partner in New Jersey, Lt. Gov. Sheila Oliver pointed to the dozens of public housing agencies in cities and towns across the state.

The longest war in American history has ended, sending the remaining 2,500 U.S. troops home and adding to the nearly 200,000 individuals who leave the armed forces each year, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. 

Long-delayed as it was, the opening of the massive American Dream retail and entertainment complex is making good on its promise of bringing thousands of daily visitors to the Meadowlands, providing a much-needed lift to businesses in the region.

Cushman & Wakefield announced today that the real estate services firm has been retained by Princeton University to arrange for the sale of the Princeton Nurseries development site.  Located within the Princeton Forrestal Center, the site totals 271 acres and represents the last large development parcel in its Corporate Office and Research Complex.

New infrastructure — and particularly transportation infrastructure — should be climate change resistant, value previously marginalized urban neighborhoods and take into consideration changing traffic patterns, according to a panel of real estate and urban development specialists based in the greater New York City metropolitan area.

The New Jersey Builders Association has installed its newest president, tapping a Millburn-based developer and attorney to help guide the organization in the year ahead.

Governor Phil Murphy announced the appointments of 77 public members to the New Jersey-Israel Commission, including a second co-chair, Karin Elkis. Elkis will serve as co-chair along with Mark Levenson, who was one of 21 members who were reappointed. Andrew Gross serves as the executive director. The appointments to the commission were announced Wednesday, Israel’s 73rd Independence Day, in celebration of the friendship and longstanding relationship between New Jersey and Israel

The New Jersey Builders Association has installed its 68th president, it announced this week, along with other members of its 2021-22 slate of officers.

Gov. Phil Murphy today announced the appointments of 77 public members to the New Jersey – Israel Commission. The appointments to the Commission are being announced on Israel’s 73rd Independence Day, in celebration of the friendship and longstanding relationship between New Jersey and Israel.

TRENTON – Governor Phil Murphy today announced the appointments of 77 public members to the New Jersey – Israel Commission. The appointments to the Commission are being announced on Israel’s 73rd Independence Day, in celebration of the friendship and longstanding relationship between New Jersey and Israel.

The 2021 ROI Influencers: Women in Business list includes eight sector categories. They are another way we can honor the best women in the New Jersey business world.

March was Women’s History Month. It’s important we recognize the accomplishments of all women, but we found it crucial to highlight women in commercial real estate. Known as a male-dominated industry, there are women who have broken gender barriers and made huge strides. Below we cover nine women in the commercial real estate industry.

Recently released renderings illustrate what a five-story building that is being envisioned for the Soul Food Factory site between East Orange’s two train stations could look like if it ends up coming to fruition.

An upcoming seminar co-hosted by the Center for Real Estate at Rutgers Business School will highlight the issue of housing affordability — both at home and abroad.

Debra Tantleff, principal of Tantum Real Estate, and Amy Herbold, vice president for American Dream, were named as trustees to the Meadowlands Regional 2040 Foundation earlier this week.

The COVID-19 pandemic may have changed the commercial real estate sector, but it didn’t stop it. The pandemic led to a pivot, one that still is impacting CRE today — and one that figures to do so in the months (even years) ahead.

As the housing industry looks to move beyond the coronavirus crisis, two female executives are poised to play prominent roles as board members of the New Jersey Builders Association.

Two prominent women in the real estate industry have joined the New Jersey Builders Association’s leadership team, the organization announced Monday.

We assembled a panel of industry experts to tackle this month’s question. Here’s what they had to say.

It wasn’t too long ago when a remark like “That’s a man’s job” was just accepted as the norm. For the longest time, the choices we made in the workforce were dictated not by an individual’s calibre but by their gender. 

It’s an annual tradition here at ROI-NJ: Kicking off the new year by surveying some of the New Jersey real estate industry’s top experts to find out what they see for the coming year. Read on for the 2020 edition!

You can’t have a real estate list in New Jersey without dozens of developers. Here are some of the most influential.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center hosted its fourth annual 9/11 commemoration, this year “Honoring Heroes for Tolerance,” at Yankee Stadium on August 18.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center hosted its fourth annual 9/11 commemoration event this past Sunday, honoring Heroes for Tolerance at Yankee Stadium. 

Red Bank, a riverfront town in New Jersey about 50 miles from Midtown Manhattan, had been sleeping on its laurels in terms of fostering new development, according to its mayor. But that's changing. The borough recently welcomed several new projects and has others in the works.

New Jersey Monthly magazine called it “the hippest town in New Jersey.” A few years later, the 12,000-resident borough landed on Smithsonian magazine’s list of the “hippest enclaves on the East Coast.”

The first installment of the new TOD in Your Downtown Forum Series, organized by Downtown New Jersey (DNJ) and NJTOD.org, was held on May 30 at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. Planners, municipal officials, and other practitioners assembled at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy to hear from expert panelists who work on the front lines of planning and implementing transit-oriented development.

It’s often mentioned in the same breath as Morristown and Montclair, but Red Bank has mostly lacked the type of new investment and mixed-use development seen by its northern counterparts.

Red Bank Mayor Pasquale Menna was thrilled.  As he stood beside Tantum Real Estate founder and President Debra Tantleff and development partner Joe Bezzone and cut a bright red ribbon signifying the grand opening of The Element at Red Bank, he said the boutique urban infill development will help change the heart of downtown Red Bank.

Finalizing a development process that began a dozen years ago, a new 35-unit apartment building made its debut in downtown Red Bank Wednesday.

RED BANK - The Element, an upscale 35-unit “boutique” apartment building marketed for well-heeled baby boomers and empty nesters, opened its doors Wednesday, marking another milestone in the downtown’s budding residential renaissance.

RED BANK, NJ – The Element apartments had their ribbon cutting ceremony attended by Red Bank Mayor Pat Menna, state senator Vin Gopal, former senator Joe Kyrillos and Freeholder Gerry Scharfenberger, and a host of other political and business notables. 

A joint venture has unveiled a boutique apartment building in downtown Red Bank, bringing new life to a long-vacant site and paving the way for additional redevelopment in the borough.

Career opportunities in commercial real estate run the gamut from architecture, asset management and investment banking to engineering and environmental science.

New Jersey has large-scale problems with its demographics and its real estate, but their solutions could come at the smallest of scales.

Has multifamily finally hit its peak? Can industrial continue its big push, buoyed by the ports? Will Newark and Jersey City continue to lead the way in urban development? What’s the feeling on retail? And how will Gov. Phil Murphy’s goal of an innovative economy impact all of this?

In 2017, ROI-NJ unveiled its first ROI Influencers Real Estate list. In 2018, we’ve created our latest version, capturing who the most powerful, most influential people in the industry are today.

Migration from the suburbs to urban areas — a pattern that’s ruled for more than a decade — may finally be turning around, according to a report from the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University.

NEWARK, NJ—(SBN)—Municipalities may need to increase their expectations of how new multifamily construction will affect their schools, and probably should stop using a “one size fits all” model in determining the impact of multifamily construction on local school capacity, according to research released by The Center for Real Estate at Rutgers Business School.

The Center for Real Estate at Rutgers Business School announced the release of its first public policy white paper, “School-Age Children in Rental Units in New Jersey: Results from a Survey of Developers and Property Managers.”

The number of school-age children in multifamily housing units increases with the number of bedrooms, regardless of the residents’ income level and building product type. And, if income and bedrooms are fixed, it can be shown that denser properties will have fewer school-aged children.

A new study is shedding new light on a widespread, age-old debate between developers and local governments in New Jersey: Do new apartments mean new school-age children?

ROBBINSVILLE – The New Jersey Builders Association (NJBA) honored its annual Industry Awards recipients recently at the Stone Terrace, by John Henry's in Hamilton. The awards honor members of NJBA who have made outstanding contributions to the housing and/or the building industry in New Jersey during the prior year.

Going in opposite Riverside Gardens Park at 55 West Front Street is the Element,  a 35-unit apartment building with self-contained parking beneath an elevated patio for tenants.

Our Common Ground campaign for Gender Equality continues! Today, we salute another pioneering woman in real estate: Debra Tantleff! Debra is Founding Principal of TANTUM Real Estate. We’re proud to shine a spotlight on Debra and so many other trailblazers in the field. These women have paved the way for others to follow. Here’s to every achievement earned, every milestone passed, and every glass ceiling shattered!

After nearly two years of planning, a proposed mixed-use development near the border of Jersey City’s Greenville and Bergen-Lafayette neighborhoods has finally been approved.

RED BANK – The borough Zoning Board of Adjustment may have said “no” but the Planning Board said “yes” – after a little nudging from the Borough Council – for the upscale multistory apartment complex intended for the downtown.

RED BANK — A year ago, the borough's Zoning Board rejected a 35-unit apartment project planned for the heart of downtown. On Monday, the Planning Board approved essentially the same plan, after the proposal took an unorthodox path.

RED BANK — The borough council on Monday approved a redevelopment plan that allows up to 35 apartments to be built on a downtown parcel, despite continued protest from some on the council.

Packed with industry giants and power players, the advisory board of the Rutgers Business School Center for Real Estate has no shortage of leadership or experience. But the group wants to ensure its viability for decades to come, while connecting with the students it was meant to serve when it was formed last year.

JERSEY CITY, NJ — Debra Tantleff, founding principal of TANTUM Real Estate, is concerned about the economic forces that are combining to raise development costs across New Jersey, in urban infill and suburban redevelopment locations, and she’s trying to help local governments cope with that reality in her own development practice. Learn more in our exclusive audio interview.

RED BANK — The borough Zoning Board of Adjustment may cast the deciding vote for a project that could finally result in building on a long-vacant West Front Street lot.

It was nearly a decade ago when Debra Tantleff, then a young executive with Roseland Property Co., took a lead role in a project that would define the future of downtown Morristown. You might say it also did the same for her career.