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Martha Peyton, Ph. D., is managing director and global head real assets research at Aegon Asset Management, where she is responsible for the development and application of research to real asset strategies. She joins the podcast to provide context to all the discussion of inflation. Long considered a hedge against inflation, commercial real estate continues to face challenges in the face of COVID-...

Reid Thomas is chief revenue officer and managing director of JTC Americas, the North American division of JTC Group. He joins the podcast to discuss the continued potential for investment and development in opportunity zones. Five years after the legislation was passed, Thomas shares why it’s still an attractive opportunity for direct investment in underdeveloped and underserved communities. Whil...

Helen Zaver is senior vice president with Colliers International and a member of its National Hospitality Group. She joins the podcast to discuss hospitality’s steady recovery in Year 3 of COVID-19. With leisure travel bouncing back to pre-pandemic levels, she details how business and convention activity may continue to increase, which can mean different experiences for major urban markets versus...

Nancy Glick, COO of Newmark Associates, recently cofounded the Commercial Real Estate Supplier Diversity Alliance (CRESDA) to diversify the supply chains of Fortune 500 companies. She details why such an initiative is vital to the future of CRE, what common obstacles pop up in DE&I efforts, and how the next generation of CRE professionals will change the industry. Glick also shares how COVID-19 ha...

David Amerikaner is special counsel with Duane Morris’s Real Estate Practice Group, with a focus on sustainability, land use, project development, and environmental law. He joins the podcast to discuss what commercial real estate is doing in the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) arena. Amerikaner details how tenant demand for sustainable practices and shortening ROI on green investment a...

Kevin Perry, AIA, LEED AP, is principal with HED, an architecture design, engineering, and planning firm with eight locations across the U.S. He discusses growing demand in the biotech sector of commercial real estate, noting low vacancy rates and rising rents in primary markets like Boston, San Francisco, and San Diego. Perry details the challenges in site selection for biotech lab and office fac...

Josh Patinkin is managing director of real estate for Leste Group, a leading global alternative investments platform with more than $280 million in assets undermanagement. He discusses an approach to investment in affordable housing that focuses on a fundamental imbalance in supply and demand that can produce opportunities in various markets, especially those in the Southeast U.S. and Texas. Patin...

Ben Crosby, CCIM, is managing broker with National Land Realty in Florida. A native of the Sunshine State, he advocates for investors and commercial real estate professionals to keep a long-term perspective in examining potential properties, emphasizing population trends and demographics over day-to-day headlines and short-term issues. He sees a bright future for land investment in Florida and thr...

In this episode of Commercial Investment Real Estate podcast, Dan Spiegel, managing director at Coldwell Banker Commercial, discusses the retail market’s prospects in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. While shutdowns and public health restrictions have made life difficult for some retail sectors, demand for investment properties looks to remain strong. Spiegel also emphasizes the available opport...

Bob Wislow, chairman and CEO of Parkside Realty, a boutique real estate venture in Chicago, details the challenges and opportunities in the office sector amid the delta variant of the coronavirus. Wislow discusses his firm’s Fulton East development, a 12-story, 90,000-square-foot office and retail building in the West Loop, a booming work-live-play area in Chicago, and how the property leverages a...

Soozi Jones Walker, CCIM, SIOR, is president and broker of Commercial Executives Real Estate Services in Las Vegas. In a market upended by COVID-19, she discusses the challenges faced by industry professionals in lease negotiations, the importance of communication between tenant and landlord, and creative solutions for troubled assets, including adaptive reuse.

Matt Bronfman is principal and CEO of Jamestown, a global real estate investment and management company that has completed iconic downtown projects including Chelsea Market in New York, Ponce City Market in Atlanta, and San Francisco’s Ghirardelli Square. He discusses the secret to the firm’s enduring success throughout its 37-year history, supporting tenants during COVID-19, and strategies for ap...

David Bonser, co-head of Hogan Lovells's global REIT practice, sees a bright future for institutional investment in commercial real estate as the country begins its recovery from COVID-19. He discusses the opportunities and challenges facing REITs in various commercial real estate sectors including office, retail, and industrial. Bonser also examines consolidation in the REIT market, noting what s...

Randy Eckers, chair of the real estate finance practice for Akerman LLP, wants to raise awareness for the Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy program or C-PACE. This avenue for financing has plenty of potential for CRE projects aimed at environmental improvements in existing and new properties. Through C-PACE, developers, owners, investors, and operators can access low-cost, long-term, fixed...

Pat Jackson, founder and CEO of Sabal Capital Partners, a financial services firm focused on investing and lending in workforce housing, knows what it will take to meet growing demand in the multifamily submarket. In this episode, he details the challenges in workforce housing, including tight margins, changing demographics, and aging properties. Jackson also highlights some opportunities for CRE...

Armed with new research from the American Society of Civil Engineers, CCIM Institute Chief Economist K.C. Conway, CCIM, MAI, CRE, dives into the challenges and opportunities associated with last-mile logistics, supply chain, and infrastructure. He also discusses the impact of these factors across property types and the data and considerations needed for commercial real estate professionals to succ...

Managing director at Deloitte Consulting John D’Angelo specializes in operational transformation in real estate operating companies, investment managers, and service providers. In this episode, he details the vast potential of artificial intelligence, process automation, and the Internet of Things in commercial real estate. These technologies can help leverage data across asset classes to improve...

Managing Director at JLL, Tim O’Rourke is a team leader for the industrial services group in Los Angeles and a member of JLL’s Supply Chain & Logistics Group. O'Rourke discusses the emergence of cold storage as a strong niche within the robust industrial sector. He also details the important driving factors, including population and production, as well as the impact of infrastructure, ESG, and tec...

In the second of a special two-part series, Maggie Coleman, managing partner with BFIN, where she leads the Private Capital Authority real estate platform, details regional differences in how foreign capital views the U.S. and what different CRE sectors might expect in 2021.

In the first of a special two-part series, Maggie Coleman, managing partner with BFIN, where she leads the Private Capital Authority real estate platform, discusses cross-border investment among global regions and across asset classes.

Doug Phillips, partner and realtor with Schuil & Associates Real Estate, a firm that specializes in the agricultural land sector, outlines the opportunities and challenges facing the agricultural real estate sector. He talks through the COVID-19 response from farmers, processors, and ranchers, who overcame early disruptions to maintain a food supply chain that saw some hefty spikes in demand. Phil...

Rick Garlick, PhD, vice president of Magid, a leading business strategy company, details how the hospitality industry can rebound from the devastating impact of the coronavirus pandemic by rebuilding trust. He discusses data and metrics available to the travel and leisure sector, which will help commercial real estate professionals anticipate where the market is headed. Garlick also discusses the...

Chief Executive and Founder of Reonomy Rich Sarkis understands the value of data. He discusses how proper data analysis can be an essential tool for commercial real estate professionals looking for opportunity in an economy destabilized by COVID-19.

Head of Commercial Real Estate Economics for Moody’s Analytics REIS, Victor Calanog, PhD, dives into new research on major commercial real estate sectors. While industrial has weathered the COVID-19 storm, challenges lie ahead in light of shifting demand. Office and retail, meanwhile, face more immediate obstacles as the national economy looks to rebound after shutdowns.

Chief Economist at the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care, Beth Mace details the challenges and opportunities for seniors housing in the wake of the COVID pandemic. The market sector, as she puts it, is a hybrid of multifamily, hospitality, and health care, so investors and operators must be knowledgeable and agile to succeed as demand begins to grow after the initial shutdown.