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.
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...
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.
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?...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Delving deeper into the geographical jargon of market tiers sheds light on investment trends and value-add opportunities that would have gone overlooked just a decade ago. The real estate industry is known for its shorthand captioning of complex topics, often assuming that industry participants share common background knowledge. Since this...
