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Yahoo
6 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
From a $91M Year to a Bold New Chapter: Costanza Genoese Zerbi Joins eXp Realty
Top Southern California agent reignites her production goals with move to eXp Realty and its high-performance networkBELLINGHAM, Wash., June 04, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- eXp Realty®, 'the most agent-centric real estate brokerage on the planet™' and the core subsidiary of eXp World Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: EXPI), today announced that Costanza Genoese Zerbi, a nationally ranked top producer and founder of Costanza Genoese Zerbi & Associates in Long Beach, California, has joined its growing network of elite agents. A two-time Boston Marathon finisher and nationally ranked top producer, Costanza brings nearly a decade of experience, global insight, and an unmistakable energy to her real estate business. She closed over $91 million in a single year and in 2024, she finished strong with $65 million in volume on 65 units. But her goal is clear: She wants a brokerage that can help drive her production to over $100 million a year. 'I joined eXp to get back to my $91M year – and beyond,' said Costanza. 'This is a high-level, high-output environment that rewards drive, collaboration, and results. I've found the platform, the people, and the freedom that will help me scale again.' After nearly a decade in the industry, with previous stints at Coldwell Banker and Redfin, Costanza says eXp is the first place where she truly feels empowered. 'I was looking for that rare mix of strong infrastructure and zero bureaucracy,' she said. 'eXp gives me the tools and autonomy to operate at my best.' A native of Italy and fluent in multiple languages, Costanza's global perspective has helped her connect with a diverse client base. She holds a degree from UC Berkeley and an MBA from UCLA, with a corporate marketing background that sharpened her business instincts and branding strategies. Her success has not gone unnoticed – she's a RealTrends Top 500 agent in both volume and sides, and her insights have been featured on CNN, KTLA, Fox, the LA Times, and The Wall Street Journal. Her husband, Neil, is also joining the business, expanding their reach as a real estate team. 'We're building something together that's grounded in excellence and powered by eXp,' she added. 'Costanza represents the kind of visionary leadership and production-level excellence that thrives at eXp,' said Leo Pareja, CEO of eXp Realty. 'She's not only a top producer, but also a collaborative force in the industry. We're thrilled to welcome her to eXp and can't wait to see what she accomplishes next.' About eXp World Holdings, Inc. eXp World Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: EXPI) (the 'Company') is the holding company for eXp Realty® and SUCCESS® Enterprises. eXp Realty is the largest independent real estate brokerage in the world, with over 81,000 agents across 27 international locations. As a cloud-based, agent-centric brokerage, eXp Realty provides real estate agents industry-leading commission splits, revenue share, equity ownership opportunities, and a global network that empowers agents to build thriving businesses. For more information about eXp World Holdings, Inc., visit: SUCCESS® Enterprises, anchored by SUCCESS® magazine, has been a trusted name in personal and professional development since 1897. As part of the eXp ecosystem, it offers agents access to valuable resources to enhance their skills, grow their businesses, and achieve long-term success. For more information about SUCCESS, visit Safe Harbor and Forward-Looking Statements This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements reflect the Company's and its management's current expectations but involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could impact actual results materially. These statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding the anticipated success of agents or teams joining eXp Realty, future production goals or volume projections, and participation in or benefits derived from the Company's platform, tools, compensation model, or equity programs. Important factors that may cause actual results to differ materially and adversely from those expressed in forward-looking statements include real estate market fluctuations, changes in agent retention or recruitment, the Company's ability to expand successfully in international markets, competitive pressures, regulatory changes, and other risks detailed from time to time in the Company's Securities and Exchange Commission filings, including but not limited to the most recently filed Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Annual Report on Form 10-K. We do not undertake any obligation to update these statements except as required by law. Media ContacteXp World Holdings, Investor RelationsDenise Garciainvestors@ A photo accompanying this announcement is available at
Forbes
16-04-2025
- Business
- Forbes
China Market Update: Nvidia Weighs On Asia Investor Sentiment
CLN Asian equities were lower as our 'tariffs higher = markets down' theory was proven correct by Nvidia's announcement that it will take a Q1 charge of $5.5 billion. The US government will require Nvidia to obtain an export license for its H20 chips. No word from AMD (yet), as their MI308 chips will also require an export license. There are small signs that the US and Chinese governments are slowly getting to a point of talking to one another. Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, and Vietnam underperformed. Meanwhile, India, Thailand, and Singapore all managed small gains. Hong Kong was led lower by growth stocks in a broad sell-off marked by poor breadth. Internet stocks were hurt by concerns about restaurant delivery margins after which fell by -5.52%, said it wouldn't make more than 5% margins on delivery, which dragged down Meituan, as well, which fell by -8.11%. I wonder whether restaurant vouchers will be part of the stimulus, which is why JD is promoting the fact that it is not gauging restaurants. There was very little green on the screen, as pharmaceuticals, technology hardware, electronics, internet, and electric vehicle (EV) stocks were all down. Mainland investors bought a healthy net $1.017 billion worth of Hong Kong-listed stocks today. Mainland markets were also off, as growth underperformed. The ETFs favored by the "National Team", i.e. investment firms associated with China's sovereign wealth, saw very high volumes going into the close, which lifted mega-capitalization stocks and pushed the Shanghai Composite into positive territory. Mainland media noted that Chinese banks have extended the RMB 100 billion in loans to companies in order to fund stock buybacks. March and Q1 data was what macroeconomic researcher Jared Dillian would call a "Costanza day". Good news is actually bad news, referencing the Seinfeld episode when George Costanza does the opposite of his instincts, leading to positive results. There has been chatter that the strong data will curb the potential for strong stimulus, but it appears overblown as tariff fronting was a factor. The coming stimulus will be to offset the effects of US tariffs versus looking in the rearview mirror. China and Vietnam signed a trade memorandum of understanding (MOU). March and Q1 Data Highlights: The great Daniel Kahneman's Thinking Fast Thinking Slow was recently on full display as US Treasuries sold off. Common Thinking Fast narrative: China is dumping its Treasuries! My thought: maybe, but why isn't the renminbi appreciating versus the US dollar? Thinking Slow evidence-based explanation: relative value fixed income hedge funds' highly leveraged basis trade went the wrong way, causing a rapid unwind. Hat tip to our friend Matt for his recommendation of The Ezra Klein Show podcast's recent interview with Tom Friedman, who has just returned from China. Klein begins by touching on his concern about the consensus negativity in Washington DC on both sides of the aisle towards China. I would agree that an anti-China genie was released out of the bottle, which will be hard to put back on, as the media has only further fanned the flames by historically throwing gasoline on the dumpster fire. In my opinion, it started back in Obama's first term and is highly correlated with the growth in the size of the US government and its spending the two talk about. Friedman makes an exceedingly good point about how China's local governments support (subsidize) industries early on, creating a proverbial "Fitness Center", where only the strong can survive due to the vicious competition. The two talk about Huawei, solar, and EVs as byproducts of this "Fitness Factory". It was a very worthwhile listen, though I am more optimistic, as they fail to touch on how inter-connected US and Chinese business people are. While the diplomats throw stones, businesspeople figure out ways to make things work and make money. I also believe markets and the economy are acting as a hard-to-deny truth serum, which the media is mainly reporting. Exhibit A would be tariff beneficiaries Ford and GM facing significant headwinds because of tariffs! The perpetually negative US media is not the narrative those outside of the US consume. The bigger question is, what allows both sides to save face and de-escalate? For those interested, we will be hosting a webinar on the current status of US-China negotiations with Trump's Former Ambassador to China Terry Branstad on Wednesday, April 23rd. Please click here to register. Live Webinar Join us on Wednesday, April 23, at 10 am EDT for: Trump's China Playbook: Amb. Terry Branstad on How the President Thinks Please click here to register New Content Read our latest article: New Drivers For China Healthcare: AI Med-Tech Innovation, Cancer Treatment, & Favorable Balance of Trade Please click here to read Chart1 Chart2 Chart3 Chart4 Chart5
Washington Post
10-04-2025
- General
- Washington Post
The corporate quest to make better toilet paper
'Do you realize that toilet paper has not changed in my lifetime?' the character George Costanza said in an episode of 'Seinfeld.' '… And in 10,000 years, it will still be exactly the same, because really, what else can they do?' Costanza was sort of correct. Everyone has heard of toilet paper, and pretty much anyone who is going to use it already does. Aside from the very welcome 'splinter-free' promise made by manufacturers in the 1930s, the basic premise has remained pretty steady since the 1890s. But that doesn't mean there haven't been changes. Manufacturers pour plenty of time, money and scientific rigor into a product that most people use without thinking.
Yahoo
26-03-2025
- Yahoo
U.S. Army searching for 4 missing soldiers in eastern Lithuania
March 26 (UPI) -- Four U.S. Army soldiers are missing and search-and-recovery efforts are underway near Pabrade, Lithuania, U.S. Army officials announced Wednesday. The missing soldiers are with the 1st Brigade of the 3rd Infantry Division and were participating in a tactical training exercise when they went missing from the training area near Pabrade, U.S. Army officials said in a news release. Personnel with the U.S. Army, Lithuanian Armed Forces, Lithuanian law enforcement and others are conducting the search-and-rescue operation for the four unnamed soldiers. "I would like to thank the Lithuanian Armed Forces and first responders who quickly came to our aid in our search operations," V Corps commander Lt. Gen. Charles Costanza said. "It's this kind of teamwork and support that exemplifies the importance of our partnership and our humanity regardless of what flags we wear on our shoulders," Costanza said. The four soldiers are based in Fort Stewart in Georgia and were reported missing on Tuesday. The soldiers' vehicle also is missing. Lithuanian Armed Forces officials received notification of the four missing soldiers and a tracked vehicle at 4:45 p.m. local time Tuesday during the training exercise at the General Silvestra Zukauskas Training Area in Pabrade. The search and rescue mission to locate the missing soldiers and their tracked vehicle includes helicopters of the Lithuanian Air Forces and State Border Guard and is led by the Lithuanian Armed Forces with help from the local Fire and Rescue Department and other institutions. A potential accident site has been determined and is the focus of the search for the missing soldiers and vehicle. Pabrade is located in eastern Lithuania near its border with Belarus and about 30 miles northeast of the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius.
Yahoo
13-02-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Donald Shoup, renowned parking guru and UCLA professor, dies at 86
Over more than a half century of clear writing, clever quips and exhaustive scholarship, Donald Shoup became one of the world's foremost experts and influencers on a topic seemingly as mundane as it is universal: parking. Shoup, an economist and distinguished professor emeritus of urban planning at UCLA, died Feb. 6 after a brief illness. He was 86. Shoup's central argument, published most expansively in his 700-page seminal work "The High Cost of Free Parking," was that everything that most people think about parking was wrong. Free street parking, Shoup wrote, makes parking and driving worse. The low cost creates a scarcity of spaces that leads people to spend time and fuel circling blocks in misery. And city planners' efforts to solve this problem by mandating that homes and businesses provide more cheap parking only worsen the situation. According to Shoup, this parking conundrum is foundational to many of the ills in modern urban life: congestion, sprawl, pollution and high housing costs. Read more: 'Gimme Shelter': How parking lots explain California's housing crisis Shoup presented his ideas with a cheerful countercultural undercurrent and sprinkle of quirky history. In a 2014 interview with The Times, Shoup noted that the first parking ticket for an expired meter was given to a Protestant minister in 1935. The fine was dismissed, Shoup said, 'on the then-novel explanation that the minister had gone to get change for the parking meter.' Shoup's message, persistence and style gained him legions of followers around the globe. The most ardent called themselves 'Shoupistas.' The professor embraced the attention and happily accepted a playful moniker for himself, 'Shoup Dogg.' Michael Manville, chair of urban planning at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, said Shoup leaned into the spotlight because he realized it would help spread his ideas and because he just liked talking to people about parking. "He spent so much time with his writing because he wanted to make it accessible," said Manville, who first met Shoup as a UCLA graduate student in 2001. "He spent so much time with presentations because he wanted to make them entertaining. He built a method where he was always ready to explain to an activist group or a politician, 'Hey, the missing part here is parking.'" Shoup acknowledged that inveighing against free parking was not popular. He began a 2006 article in academic journal Transport Policy by nodding to parking conventional wisdom through a quotation from George Costanza, the obsessive sidekick from the 1990s sitcom "Seinfeld." Parking at a garage, Costanza said, was 'like going to a prostitute.' 'Why should I pay when, if I apply myself, maybe I can get it for free?' Costanza said. Read more: He puts parking in its place While Shoup mostly traveled by bicycle, he told The Times for a 2010 profile that, when he drove, he often circled the block searching for free parking. 'I don't like paying for parking,' he said with a shrug. 'But free parking is ultimately not beneficial.' Shoup's policy prescriptions attempted to take into account the public's prevailing views. He believed that cities should charge market prices for street parking and that the resulting revenue should be directed to improvements in the surrounding community. This blending of classical economic theories on supply and demand and understanding political realities helped build his practical influence, wrote Bill Fulton, a former student of Shoup's and an expert on California planning issues, in a remembrance published this week. 'If you give that money back to the neighborhood where the paid parking is occurring, you can provide a tangible benefit to that neighborhood — and begin to overcome political opposition to paid parking,' Fulton wrote. Shoup was born in 1938 in Long Beach. His father was a captain in the U.S. Navy and the Shoups were stationed in Honolulu when Pearl Harbor was bombed. In 1968, Shoup earned a PhD in economics at Yale and, in six years, became a professor at UCLA. He remained there his entire career, retiring in 2015. Fulton recalled that Shoup used to joke that he came upon parking as his life's work because it was 'the bottom of the barrel.' Most public policy academics studied more prestigious national and state issues leaving few interested in plumbing the depths of local policy. Among the few who explored local government, everyone ignored two issues: parking and sewage. 'Don didn't want to study sewage,' Fulton wrote. 'So he studied parking.' As mayor of Ventura in 2010, Fulton brought Shoup's ideas into reality through a parking strategy for the city's downtown. The city began charging for some of its parking spaces, which spurred employees of local businesses to use nearby free city lots, freeing up curb spaces for customers. By that point, numerous cities around the country were experimenting with Shoup's ideas. The Parking Reform Network, a nonprofit founded to advance Shoup's ideas, has documented policies in more than 3,000 cities that rely on Shoup's research. On the nonprofit's website, over 70 people — including mourners from Bogotá, Colombia; Mexico City; Istanbul; Brisbane, Australia; and elsewhere — have shared memories of Shoup and celebrated his scholarship. Read more: Column: Donald Shoup, UCLA's parking guru, on how L.A. should manage its meters One of the biggest changes inspired by Shoup's work came in 2022 when Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation that eliminated mandatory parking requirements for most developments near mass transit across California. Newsom said the law would reduce the cost of housing while lowering climate change-inducing car trips. 'Housing solutions are also climate solutions,' Newsom said. The law took effect when Shoup was 85 years old. Shoup liked to acknowledge his later-in-life success, according to his wife, Pat Shoup. He published "The High Cost of Free Parking" when he was 67. 'He always said it was fine to be a late bloomer if you made it to the flower show,' Pat wrote in her husband's death notice. 'He made it and left a long trail of blossoms in his wake to benefit others.' Shoup remained active following his retirement from UCLA. He continued to teach and was often seen within the Luskin School of Public Affairs building, per a remembrance published by the university. Rep. Laura Friedman (D-Glendale) marveled at Shoup's energy and how the professor continued to inspire people. Recently, she watched a crowd filled with people of all ages rapt as he gave a lecture on reforming handicap parking laws to increase access for people with disabilities. Friedman, who authored the 2022 parking law when she served in the state Legislature, said the army of Shoup adherents provided a critical mass of support as she tried to move the bill forward. 'He inspired a passion among his students and fellow academics that turned his work into a movement,' Friedman said. 'That's what was unique about him.' Shoup is survived by his wife Pat, brother Frank Shoup, his niece Allison Shoup, nephew Elliot Shoup, Elliot's wife Megan and their three children. There will be no funeral or church service, but UCLA will celebrate his life at a later date. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Donald and Pat Shoup Endowed Fellowship in Urban Planning at the UCLA Luskin School or the Parking Reform Network. Sign up for Essential California for news, features and recommendations from the L.A. Times and beyond in your inbox six days a week. This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
