CPE Podcasts

In 2018, Brian Walter co-founded Fairbridge Asset Management with about $3 million raised from family and friends. It was a modest start, but Walter already had plenty of tools in his toolkit. He knew how to run a company, and he’d spent decades building his expertise in fields ranging from institutional credit trading and leveraged finance to managing a family office. Fast forward to today, and F...

Welcome back to Sustainability Street, our podcast on the intersection of commercial real estate and the world we live. For this episode, I'm talking about cardiac health and the built environment with Dr. Bharat Sangani. As a board-certified cardiologist and founder & chairman of Dallas-based Encore Enterprises, Sangani finds himself downstream and upstream of what he refers to as America...

New York City’s built environment is under increasing pressure to adapt to rapidly shifting demand. From life science and health-care conversions to workplace and retail design, flexibility is becoming increasingly important across the city’s commercial real estate landscape. In this episode of Commercial Design Lab, Perkins&WillManaging Principal Robert Clemens joins CPE’s Beata Lorincz to di...

CPE’s Mikayla Sciortino sits down with CenterSquare’s Rachel Gines to discuss the lessons, mentors and mistakes that shaped her path to leadership.

As loans originated in a lower-rate environment come due, commercial real estate owners are confronting higher borrowing costs, lower valuations and, in many cases, refinancing gaps that can’t be solved with conventional debt alone. Office, hospitality and multifamily are among the property types feeling the greatest strain. In this episode of FTI Experts’ Hub, CPE Executive Editor Laura Valean si...

Office recovery continues to gain momentum in New York City and demand is spreading beyond newly built and extensively repositioned properties. The Plaza District has stabilized, activity around Penn Station continues to grow and demand is reaching Midtown South and the Financial District, according to Sage CEO & President Jonathan Kaufman Iger. For existing office buildings, he believes the n...

Flexibility can make a demanding commercial real estate career more sustainable, but the industry still runs heavily on relationship capital: client meetings, informal conversations and the “meeting after the meeting.” If visibility continues to influence who gets the best assignments, promotions and leadership opportunities, could flexibility carry a hidden career cost for women? In the latest ep...

Welcome back to Sustainability Street,  CPE ’s podcast on the intersection of commercial real estate and the world we live in. For this episode, I'm talking about urban beekeeping with Delaney Dameron, CEO of The Best Bees Company, which is based in Boston. Beehives on commercial rooftops are spreading, making individual buildings active supporters of their local ecosystems and pollinator rese...

Frank Forte was the kind of kid who was already fascinated by Wall Street by the time he was about 15. He was a whiz at math, and rather precociously, he also loved reading about options, derivatives and the market. But even back then commercial real estate was on his radar, too. After a few well-timed twists and turns early in his career, he made his path into real estate investment. Ten years ag...

Global commercial real estate sentiment improved in the second quarter, but the recovery story remains far from straightforward. While some markets are showing clearer signs of momentum, others are still grappling with tighter credit conditions, geopolitical uncertainty and sharp differences between prime and secondary assets. In this episode of RICS Monitor, CPE’s quarterly podcast series trackin...

Welcome back to Sustainability Street,  CPE ’s podcast on the intersection of commercial real estate and the world we live in. With 2030 just around the corner, occupiers and property owners are under pressure to turn decarbonization strategies into operational realities. As Cushman & Wakefield's new chief sustainability officer & global head of sustainability services, my guest Stepha...

Small-bay industrial continues to post tighter fundamentals than larger warehouse formats. Buildings under 100,000 square feet recorded an average vacancy rate of 4.9 percent in the fourth quarter of 2025, about half the rate for larger facilities, according to BKM Capital Partners’ latest Light Industrial Market Update. Spaces under 50,000 square feet also accounted for 80 percent of industrial l...

In this episode, Investment Matters host Paul Rosta discusses today's hot commercial real estate investment and capital markets trends with CPE Executive Editor Therese Fitzgerald. With all the moving parts in the market today, midyear is a good time to take stock of what’s really shaping commercial real estate finance and investment. This month’s guest constantly keeps her ear to the ground f...

Orange County’s office market is moving from correction to recalibration. While the sector is still navigating the effects of right-sizing and post-pandemic occupancy shifts, CBRE’s latest report points to a market that is gradually finding its footing. With vacancy remaining relatively steady at 13.3 percent and negative net absorption narrowing compared to the first quarter, Orange County appear...

Welcome back to Sustainability Street,  CPE ’s podcast on the intersection of commercial real estate and the world we live in. For this episode, I'm talking about nuclear energy with Jon Lemmond, growth lead for sustainable operations, smart building services and energy engineering for real estate management services at JLL. There is a push to bring nuclear energy back into the mainstream powe...

Office-to-residential conversions continue to dominate conversations across commercial real estate, but not every building is a good candidate for adaptive reuse. From floor plate configurations and structural systems to government incentives and seismic upgrades, successful conversions depend on a complex mix of architectural, technical and financial considerations. In the latest episode of Comme...

MAA’s Associate Project Manager Jonathan Sinco sits down with CPE’s Mikayla Sciortino to discuss how a childhood dream became a career. From building towns out of Legos as a child to learning how to defend his design decisions in college, there is more that goes into becoming an architect in commercial real estate.

My guest for this episode is really on the go these days. Dan Michaels is managing partner of Stockdale Capital Partners, and he’s leading a major growth initiative for the L.A.-based private investor. Recent highlights include the closing of a $700 million opportunity fund, the firm’s first multifamily investment, and new offices in Dallas and New York City. On top of all that, the firm is expand...

As the push to bring manufacturing back to the U.S. continues, developers and investors keep are searching for ways to fund capital-intensive projects. But what financing tools might they be overlooking? In this episode of FTI Experts’ Hub, CPE Executive Editor Laura Valean sits down with McRae Thompson, senior managing director & co-leader of U.S. Tax Advisory in the Real Estate Solutions pra...

Welcome back to Sustainability Street. CPE’s podcast on the intersection of commercial real estate and the world we live in. While corporate America de-emphasizes "ESG," sustainability's role as a key financial lever in commercial real estate gets further cemented. My guest for this episode is CPE Senior Associate Editor Anca Gagiuc, our lead climate and energy reporter. We discuss h...

Women now account for 31 percent of commercial real estate brokers in the U.S., up 10 percentage points over the past 15 years, according to CREW Network. While progress may feel slow, 2026 President Leslie Teskey sees reason for optimism. In this episode of CREW Up , Commercial Property Executive ’s Laura Valean sits down with veteran broker Teskey to discuss why brokerage remains one of commerci...

Global commercial real estate sentiment was broadly stable in the first quarter, but the headline numbers mask an uneven picture across markets, according to the latest surveys released by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in London. The war in Iran, higher energy prices, renewed inflation concerns and shifting expectations around interest rates are beginning to filter through CRE marke...

Ronald Dickerman says that real estate is part of his DNA. His family owned and operated apartment buildings in Boston, and when he was still a teenager, he’d spend Saturdays at those properties, vacuuming the halls and cleaning the pools. Back then he figured that he’d probably stick close to home and wind up working in the family business, but as it turned out, he was destined for much wider hor...

Distressed office buildings are becoming a defining part of the current market cycle, especially as higher vacancy, tighter lending conditions and slower demand continue to pressure owners. But distress does not always mean an asset is obsolete. In many cases, the challenge is financial , creating an opportunity for other buyers to reinvest and compete for tenants. Real Capital Solutions is one of...

Life science real estate has been widely regarded as one of the most resilient sectors of the property market in the U.S. After a surge in new construction that started during the COVID-19 pandemic, the sector is now faced with sharp-rising vacancies in some of the biggest clusters. Long-term drivers like talent, funding, onshoring and biomanufacturing still point to major opportunities, however....