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Thought Leadership

Commercial Real Estate Outlook Post-Pandemic: Navigating the Re-Opening

The pandemic changed life for so many people, as employees shifted to a work from home model and schools or other businesses temporarily shut their doors. In the past few months as vaccines have rolled out across the country, businesses are reopening and the world is beginning to return to...

Board Minutes from the Chairman: April 2021

I have the good fortune to participate on a local community hospital board where aside from experiencing the heroic conduct within the medical community, I enjoy gaining further knowledge about the tremendous advancement and innovation within the healthcare space.

Board Minutes from the Chairman: January 2021

We celebrated Buchanan Street’s 20th anniversary in 2019 and with it the excitement of achieving a mark in time that would assuredly bring with it structural certainty and predictability to our next chapters. And then 2020 struck...

Shadow Banking and its New Paradigm

Historically equity has been the component of a real estate borrower’s capital stack that has been the most challenging to procure. This capitalization reality often dictated more leverage as equity was expensive and diluted the real estate entrepreneurs take home profit.

Opportunity in Change – Making sense of commercial real estate investing in a post-COVID world

By Ken Robertson: I, like you, have been inundated with economic data...opinion pieces from prognosticators...predictions from economists and nonstop news feeds. Yes, the virus has shaken the world with everyone hitting the pause button. What should we believe from this headline news? How should we make investment decisions going forward?...

Springs’ Booming Economy Impacts Apartment Market

In spite of fears of a slowdown, apartment rentals will continue to see outsized demand for a long time. Apartments have been the darling of real estate capital markets for the past seven-eight years. This deep into an outstanding run, some investors have begun to worry if the clock is...

NREI: The Continuing Case for Apartment Rentals

In spite of fears of a slowdown, apartment rentals will continue to see outsized demand for a long time. Apartments have been the darling of real estate capital markets for the past seven-eight years. This deep into an outstanding run, some investors have begun to worry if the clock is...

Making Their Mark: The Growing Influence of High-Net-Worth Investors in Large-Scale Commercial Real Estate

Non-billionaire HNW investors are increasingly competing on large-scale commercial assets. Not so long ago, the vision of high-net-worth (HNW) investors in commercial properties entailed doctors and lawyers passing the hat at the country club in an effort to buy an eight-unit apartment complex in town or the retail strip across...

Risk Discipline in CRE Investing: Staying Cool When Others Are Losing Their Heads

Late-cycle investing calls for close attention to all potential risk/reward scenarios. Markets develop their own momentum and when a feeding frenzy takes hold, undisciplined investors often throw caution to the wind. They want a piece of the action and fear being left in the dust. Even discerning investors can rationalize...

Accepting Success

After years of strong returns, can commercial real estate investors be satisfied with merely positive results?
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