Chris Mellen

2016 President, Institute of Real Estate Management

With more than 30 years of property management experience, Chris Mellen, CPM, is 2016 president of the Institute of Real Estate Management. Mellen is also vice president of property management for the Boston-based Simon Companies, supervising the day-to-day operations of all properties in the firm’s portfolio.

Chris’s Recent activity

Good Property Managers Can Prosper Whatever the Cycle

Feb 08, 2016

I guess I’m a bit of a contrarian when it comes to questions of the economy and the long-range outlook. That tendency comes as a result of my more than three decades in the property management profession. In...

Good Times, Redefined

Jan 25, 2016

“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” Hamlet could have been speaking to us. We live in strange times, good times for all aspects of commercial real estate. ...