The Larkin Hoffman Real Estate Podcast

Cannabis sales are anticipated to begin in Minnesota by spring or early summer of 2025. This new market will open opportunities for businesses to engage in cultivation, manufacturing, and retail, under a comprehensive framework designed to ensure compliance and safety. In this episode of the Larkin Hoffman Real Estate Podcast , Bill Griffith sat down with Doug Junker, the firm's municipal lice...

There is a simple formula that is used to determine how much you owe in property taxes, however if your property is valued incorrectly, you could be overpaying.  Tim Rye and Adam Pabarcus from our property tax appeals team recently sat down with Bill Griffith to discuss the property tax appeals process and to highlight the benefit of a quick periodic review to determine if your tax assessment is f...

Part Three:  Reforming Real Estate: From Racial Covenants to Just Deeds In the most recent episodes of The Larkin Hoffman Real Estate Podcast,  ⁠ Bill Griffith ⁠  had the privilege of sitting down with three pioneering Black women working for the City of Bloomington, Minnesota. Women, and Black women in particular, have historically been excluded from the real estate profession causing their repre...

Part Two:  Breaking Ground: The Roots of Racism in Real Estate In the most recent episodes of The Larkin Hoffman Real Estate Podcast,  Bill Griffith  had the privilege of sitting down with three pioneering Black women working for the City of Bloomington, Minnesota. Women, and Black women in particular, have historically been excluded from the real estate profession causing their representation in...

Part One:  Lifting Each Other Up:  The Power of Mutual Support In the most recent episodes of The Larkin Hoffman Real Estate Podcast,  ⁠ Bill Griffith ⁠  had the privilege of sitting down with three pioneering Black women working for the City of Bloomington, Minnesota. Women, and Black women in particular, have historically been excluded from the real estate profession causing their representation...

Stay Tuned for our latest episode of The Larkin Hoffman Real Estate Podcast, releasing September 28, 2023. In this episode, Bill Griffith has the privilege of sitting down with three pioneering Black women working for the City of Bloomington, Minnesota. Women, and Black women in particular, have historically been excluded from the real estate profession causing their representation in the industry...

In this episode of The Larkin Hoffman Real Estate Podcast, Megan Rogers shares her experience sitting down with Ra'eesa Motala , Vice President of Rokos Advisors, at a special event honoring the women who are breaking down barriers in the traditionally male-dominated field of commercial real estate.   Megan had the opportunity to engage in a fireside chat with Ra'eesa, who was the keynote...

In this episode of The Larkin Hoffman Real Estate Podcast, ⁠Megan Rogers⁠ takes the opportunity to recap a panel discussion she moderated at Bisnow’s Twin Cities Market outlook recorded late last year.  It was an engaging conversation with insight from a range of leaders in the Twin Cities Real Estate and Development Market.  The panel discussed commercial real estate conditions, obstacles and and...

Megan Rogers recently had the opportunity to talk with developer Johnny Opara , President and CEO of JO Cos., a real estate development company in the Twin Cities that specializes in developing high-quality, affordable multifamily housing. Johnny Opara took an unusual path to starting JO Cos and his career as a developer but as a first-time developer, he was able to get the St. Paul Housing and Re...

On February 1st, the Federal Reserve raised interest rates by another quarter-point. This first rate hike of 2023 follows seven interest rate hikes in 2022. With the rising interest rates in mind, Bill Griffith sat down with a panel of real estate and construction industry leaders last fall at Bisnow’s Twin Cities Multifamily Market Overview to discuss the effect of rising interest rates on their...

We're coming into year three of the COVID-19 pandemic, with record inflation, global instability, rising interest rates, and game-changing local regulations.  All of these factors are having impacts on the real estate market.  In this episode of The Larkin Hoffman Real Estate podcast, Jake Steen , a real estate attorney with Larkin Hoffman, wraps up a recent opportunity he had to sit dow...

I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Bill Katter, President of United Properties Development, in the firm’s new offices located in the RBC Gateway, a building he developed.  The 37-story tower sits on a key block linking the downtown Minneapolis core with the bustling North Loop neighborhood and providing tenants with commanding views of the Mississippi River, just a few blocks awa...