The Dealmakers’ Edge with A.Y. Strauss

The veritable “King of Texas Real Estate,” Herb Weitzman talks with host Aaron Strauss about his long and storied career, the origins of the seminal Weitzman Group, and what those new to the commercial real estate industry need to do to succeed.   Highlights include:   •    Hitting the ground running before graduating college. •    How to be an investment-minded broker. •    Lessons learned from t...

In this episode, Aaron sits down with Anthony Rinaldi, Founder and Managing Principal at Saxum Real Estate. Under Rinaldi, Saxum has quickly become one of the nation’s fastest growing real estate private equity firms with over 7 million square feet under management and offices in New Jersey, Texas, and Pennsylvania.  Rinaldi shares some of his perspectives, anecdotes, and philosophies he’s relied...

Jonathan Pratt, Senior Vice President at Capital One, is a leader in applying data-driven insights for underwriting, lending and dealmaking. He talks with host Aaron Strauss about how creative, forward-thinking strategies can be best leveraged in commercial real estate. Highlights include: •    Bringing a tech industry mindset to commercial real estate. •    The importance of data literacy for mid...

David Valger, Founder & Partner of DVO Real Estate, brings thoughtful and nuanced insights to commercial real estate. He talks with host Aaron Strauss, about his niche approach to investing in multi-family. David brings an institutional approach to entrepreneurial investing and shares his decades of experience with Aaron about how he does it. Highlights include: Micro and macro factors affecti...

Molly Bordonaro, former U.S. Ambassador and The Green Cities Managing Partner, brings a unique perspective to commercial real estate. She talks with host Aaron Strauss about how investing in and developing physical structures are key to supporting community, equality, and our planet.  Highlights include:  •    What it was like, at age 26, to be a woman running for U.S. Congress. •    What being a...

Listen to what it’s like to start and grow a successful commercial real estate firm with a grocery-anchored center portfolio. First National Realty Partners Co-Founder & Managing Principal, Chris Palermo talks with host Aaron Strauss about becoming one of the major players in the highly competitive retail commercial real estate market. Highlights include: How to hire, train, and coach employee...

Did you ever want to know what it’s like to buy and develop commercial real estate in the Metaverse? Join host Aaron Strauss as he chats with Andrew Kiguel about some of the biggest plays in Metaverse real estate. Highlights include: What a plot of land is like in the Decentraland, Sandbox, and Mana. Influences in Metaverse culture from the seminal Snow Crash, to Grand Theft Auto, to The Matrix tr...

Host Aaron Strauss and featured guest Eric Barvin discuss how his firm – Barvin – offers unique investment opportunities to high-net-worth individuals otherwise excluded from the chance to expand their portfolio with multifamily properties, and how his team continues to earn the respect and referrals of those investors by emphasizing transparency, community, and candor.  Follow Eric’s journey from...

Sean Dalfen , president of Dalfen Industrial , reveals the keys to success in real estate, but warns that they have nothing to do with instant gratification. He tells host Aaron Strauss how three generations of Dalfens have steered the business’ strategy for nearly a century, and how the firm currently manages its portfolio of last-mile industrial real estate acquisitions and developments. Learn h...

Inspired by the bustling, ever-changing neighborhoods of his youth, featured guest Adam Altman believes that the most profitable real estate investment portfolio is fueled by a clear understanding of the people – merchants, employers, employees, government officials, etc. – behind the community. Altman and host Aaron Strauss discuss how that demographic understanding has always been part of The KA...

Passion. Alignment. Ambition. Hard Work. Featured guest Inna Khidekel tells host Aaron Strauss that these elements – along with a heart of service, a head for business, and an entrepreneurial spirit – are at the core of her own impressive career and the incredible success of her firm, Bridge Investment Group . Learn how Bridge, under Inna’s leadership, became the revolutionary ambassador for integ...

Mindset. Teachability. Mentorship. Culture. These concepts may seem like secondary business principles, but featured guest Ross Cooper tells host Aaron Strauss he believes they are Kimco Realty ’s edge in becoming North America’s largest publicly traded owner and operator of open-air, grocery-anchored shopping centers and mixed used assets - and key reasons both the company and its people have suc...

Innovation. Inspiration. Profitability. Resiliency. Host Aaron Strauss and featured guest Justin Ehrlich dig into these themes and more in this episode of The Dealmaker's Edge. Learn how the founding partner of Churchill pivoted from financial crisis to commercial success during the Great Recession, how his early adoption of technology continues to fuel Churchill’s accuracy in risk management...

In episode one, Aaron Strauss of A.Y. Strauss speaks with Adir Levitas of Faropoint about Adir's background, career evolution, industrial real estate, pushing through struggles, the importance of being open-minded, technology's role in commercial real estate, and more. Enjoy the show? Have a guest in mind?  Email us at podcast@aystrauss.com to let us know your feedback and who you want t...