Tiffany Elder

Tiffany Elder is a Durham-based licensed general contractor, Realtor, and real estate investor/developer. She is Owner of Paradigm Construction (design-build construction firm), and Paradigm Properties (real estate brokerage firm).

Born and raised on the South Side of Chicago, Tiffany launched her professional career as a software engineer. She moved to North Carolina to acquire a Master of Business Administration, with a focus in Sustainable Enterprise, from UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School, and fell in love with the Triangle. Today, Tiffany enjoys renovating historic structures, and building new residential and commercial spaces in the Raleigh-Durham area. She currently facilitates multiple Durham-based and online real estate ownership and investing seminars, with the goal of empowering both novice and experienced residents to participate in, and benefit from growth in their local real estate markets.

Tiffany’s community activities include serving as Co-Chair of Durham’s 95MM Affordable Housing Bond Implementation Committee; Also as Past Chair of the Steering Committee for Durham’s inaugural 2MM Participatory Budgeting Process. Tiffany also chairs The Collective, a Durham-based consortium of minority real estate professionals, including developers, contractors, lenders, attorneys, housing providers, and others, who support the full life cycle of real estate, and who are committed to ensuring minority participation in local real estate activities.

Learn more at tiffanyelder.com

Areas of expertise: adaptive reuse, historic tax credits, infill, mixed-use, faith-based development