CPE Podcasts

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....

Welcome back to Sustainability Street, CPE’s podcast on the intersection of commercial real estate and the world we live in. Smart buildings have gotten really smart. In this episode, R-Zero Chairperson & CEO Jennifer Nuckles and I chat about how intelligent buildings have moved from advisory to actual operational control at a time when property owners are hyper-focused on improving NOI. Today...

Kansas City’s industrial market has seen a meaningful share of new deliveries translate directly into occupancy, with build-to-suit activity playing an outsized role in recent absorption. In the third episode of Inside Industrial , JLL’s Kevin Wilkerson and Phil Algrim joined CPE’s Diana Firtea to discuss how disciplined development, competition for sites and power availability are influencing Kan...

When I want to get a handle on the big picture of commercial real estate investment, I always find it helpful to pick the brain of an executive from a global institutional investor. That’s why I jumped at the chance to sit down and talk with Mike Byrne, the chief investment officer & head of private equity and debt at AEW Capital Management. AEW has been around for 45 years, and Mike himself h...

Welcome back to Sustainability Street. CPE's podcast on the intersection of commercial real estate and the world we live in. Not so long ago, addressing embodied carbon in construction project was thought to be cost prohibitive. Increasingly, that is not the case. My guests for this episode, are Rebecca Esau, a manager with the Rocky Mountain Institute's Carbon-Free Buildings Program, and...

In the inaugural episode of The Learning Curve , Kidder Mathews Senior Associate Tobias Hipp sits down with CPE's Mikayla Sciortino and shares his firsthand experience of what his career in industrial brokerage has entailed thus far and what has kept him going over the first few years.

The first episode of Commercial Design Lab, a new podcast hosted by CPE Senior Associate Editor Beata Lorincz, explores how AI is beginning to reshape architectural workflows, from early-stage design and zoning analysis to building performance optimization. Sandeep Ahuja, Co-Founder & CEO of AI-powered architecture practice cove, discusses the limitations of traditional processes and the growi...

Sandy Sigal was a technology whiz kid long before it was cool. He was just 20 when his precocious skills earned him an invitation to modernize the accounting department for a homebuilding company. It wasn’t too long before he discovered that that he had a knack for real estate as well as for programming, and by the time he was 21, he was building his first retail center. Since founding NewMark Mer...

Industrial real estate is being reshaped by a new set of operational and technological demands. As supply chains evolve and occupiers adopt automation, factors such as proximity, power availability and labor dynamics are becoming central to both facility design and investment strategy. In the second episode of Inside Industrial , CBRE’s John Morris discusses how these dynamics are influencing the...

At a time when capital markets remain volatile and fundamentals continue to shift, property appraisals are no longer a straightforward exercise. In this episode of FTI Experts’ Hub, Commercial Property Executive Senior Editor Laura Valean sits down with Mark Dunec, co-leader of Real Estate Valuation Services at FTI Consulting, to unpack a common challenge in today’s commercial real estate market:...

While gains have been made in areas like pay equity and flexibility, the commercial real estate industry continues to stall where it matters most: advancement. Women now represent roughly 38 percent of the workforce, a figure that has remained largely unchanged for two decades, according to CREW Network’s latest benchmark study. The issue, believes CEO Alison Beddard, is not pipeline, but structur...

As the flexible office sector continues to evolve, hospitality, service quality and disciplined growth have become its backbone. That’s exactly the approach Quest Workspaces has been following since 2010, when CEO Laura Kozelouzek founded the company. Now, she operates 14 locations in Florida and New York and has expanded the company’s portfolio to 310,000 square feet of premium space, mostly in M...

After the U.S.'s nearly 20-year stretch of little to no electricity load growth, we’re now shifting into an age where new investments are needed to sustain the pace of demand from AI and hyperscale data center users. Current U.S. data center market trends point to ever-increasing levels of development complexity, with gigawatt-scale campuses now a reality. Tom Traugott, SVP of emerging technol...

Welcome back to Sustainability Street, our podcast on the intersection of commercial real estate and the world we live in. For this episode, I am talking about data centers and sustainability with Suhail Tayeb, an investor, developer and the director of the Center for the Sustainable Built Environment at New York University's Shack's Institute of Real Estate within the School of Profession...

Lisa Pendergast leads one of the industry’s most influential organizations and is a top capital markets analyst to boot, but she discovered her professional passion almost by accident. An English major with her eye on law school, she was hired as a writer by a major institutional investor. The opportunity to learn the finance business from brilliant minds proved to be, as she puts it, “the cheapes...

Commercial real estate sentiment is improving globally, but the recovery is far from uniform, according to the results of the latest surveys released by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in London. The Americas, led by the U.S., are seeing clearer signs of momentum, while parts of Europe remain cautious and Asia Pacific presents a mixed picture. Geopolitical risks, policy shifts and sec...