GlobeSt.com Industrial Influencer Anthony Scavo talks about how his firm is finding success focusing on multi-tenant facilities in this exclusive podcast episode. Not every industrial facility is a big, sprawling Amazon warehouse. The industrial market is as diversified as any other asset class, and although large-format warehouses made the industrial market the darling of commercial real estate, the more niche property types are giving it stability. Anthony Scavo, the managing partner of Basis ...
Aug 01, 2025•18 min
Despite shifting fundamentals and increasing economic uncertainty, Gordon Whiting of TPG Angelo Gordon says that net lease assets are providing downside protection. Tariffs, interest rates, and a volatile stock market are weakening commercial real estate investment sentiment and pushing capital back to the sidelines—but net lease assets are the silver lining. Gordon Whiting, founder and co-portfolio manager of TPG Angelo Gordon’s net lease strategy and a recent recipient of GlobeSt.com’s Influen...
May 07, 2025•13 min
At the start of 2025, the multifamily sector encountered significant market volatility due to the transition to a new presidential administration. While the broad tariffs implemented in early April have intensified economic uncertainty, Berkadia sees several promising signs on the horizon. In this episode of GlobeSt.com's Thought Leadership podcast series, we delve into the evolving multifamily financing landscape with Josh Bodin, Senior Vice President of Securities Trading at Berkadia. Bodin si...
Apr 25, 2025•14 min
“Standards of care” isn’t just for healthcare; these guidelines are also important in restoration services. And, when insurers and restoration professionals are working from the same standards-of-care playbook, making the customer whole again is an infinitely smoother process. In this podcast, Jim Novotny and Rick Wahlstrom, both in estimate review and compliance for 1-800 WATER DAMAGE, dive deeper into standards of care in the restoration industry. You’ll learn: The different facets of standard...
Apr 18, 2025•12 min
Tremont Realty Capital says the middle market represents one of the largest segments of the commercial real estate sector, yet it can often be overlooked. It is this segment of the market that The RMR Group’s Tremont Realty Capital, however, sees significant opportunities. Tom Lorenzini, SVP of Tremont Realty Capital, says the firm would rather have a deep portfolio of smaller loans than a smaller portfolio of larger loans for better diversification and risk management. In this episode of GlobeS...
Apr 01, 2025•21 min
Mar 11, 2025•10 min
Many commercial real estate owners are pursuing C-PACE as a construction financing solution for its accretive benefits. While the program has been around for more than 15 years, C-PACE financing has gained popularity in recent years. According to the C-PACE Alliance, the C-PACE market reached nearly $10 billion as of the end of 2024. Nuveen Green Capital was responsible for close to half of all C-PACE originations in 2024. We sat down with Jessica Bailey, president and CEO of Nuveen Green Capita...
Mar 07, 2025•13 min
Almost every CRE company is exploring ways to utilize technology, but there remains a gap between tech ambition and day-to-day tech function. In this episode of GlobeSt.’s CRE Tech Visions podcast series, alternative asset manager The RMR Group takes us inside their technology strategy to explain how they have built a valuable tech toolkit. We sat down with the firm’s tech leaders Greg Carey, chief information officer; Larry Quern, director of custom application development; and Shahbaz Syed, se...
Jan 30, 2025•21 min
For many borrowers, volatility has been more challenging to manage than high interest rates. Next year, stability is likely. Where will rates be a year from now? What about the 10-Year Treasury? While no one can predict the market, most people don’t expect crippling differences in just 12 months. For the last two years, however, volatility has challenged the commercial real estate industry. Next year, Berkadia CEO Justin Wheeler is optimistic that the instability may finally wane, and borrowers ...
Dec 09, 2024•13 min
Healthcare real estate has strong tenant fundamentals, with growing opportunities for new development and investment as capital markets improve. Commercial real estate investors have a lot of reasons to like healthcare real estate. With rising patient demand, continued shift to outpatient care, and decreasing vacancy, the need for healthcare facilities is at an all-time high. While elevated interest rates continue to challenge the capital stack, investments in outpatient healthcare facilities of...
Nov 21, 2024•20 min
Oct 09, 2024•13 min
Nili Sangani built a team with diversity as a core value, and received a Women of Influence award. She talks about her leadership in this podcast. Commercial real estate has made great strides in expanding its workforce, but there is still a long way to go. It’s a passion for Nili Sangani, Senior Vice President of Operations at Encore Enterprises and Managing Principal at Encore’s subsidiary Ignite Investments. For her efforts in furthering diversity, Sangani was recognized as a Diversity Champi...
Aug 14, 2024•20 min
Four GlobeSt. Women of Influence honorees from The RMR Group discuss their journey, lessons learned and the empowering workplace culture that RMR provides for these leaders. Honorees Julie Livingstone, Director of Real Estate Development in Newton, MA (Development Professional category); Anshu Bera, Director of Leasing in Sacramento, CA (Corporate Real Estate Executive category); Julia Furber, Florida-based Regional Property Manager (Mentor category); and Kim Feliciano, Tampa, FL–based Facilitie...
Jul 29, 2024•15 min
Volatility in the capital markets has been the primary obstacle for commercial real estate owners and developers in the last two years. With high interest rates, sponsors are looking for alternative options to round out the capital stack—and equity partners have been the favored resource. However, equity partners are selective, and pricing on equity deals has also increased. In this episode of the GlobeSt. Thought Leadership series, Berkadia’s Chinmay Bhatt, senior managing director of joint ven...
Jul 10, 2024•25 min
Mar 20, 2024•16 min
Last year, the debt markets were defined by increased interest rates and limited capital availability—but it seems the tide is changing. In 2024, multifamily investors can look forward to an improvement in interest rates, particularly in the second half of the year, and increased liquidity, according to Hilary Provinse, EVP - Production and Capital Markets at Berkadia. In this latest episode of the Thought Leadership podcast series, you’ll hear Provinse describe: What she expects in the multifam...
Feb 12, 2024•20 min
With an excess of underutilized office buildings and demand for housing, many believe the path to addressing both problems can come with repositioning commercial space into residential. According to Marc Kotler, president of the New Development Group at FirstService Residential New York, not all projects are the same. Kotler spoke with Kelsi Maree Borland in this episode of the 2023 Multifamily Visions podcast series about some of the difficulties and opportunities available in this real estate ...
Oct 18, 2023•14 min
Affordable housing stakeholders are facing severe challenges financing deals, both for new construction and preservation. High interest rates have increased the return requirements for equity investors and significantly increased the cost of debt. It’s one challenge of many for affordable housing projects, say Stacie Nekus and Kyle Kolesar from KeyBank’s Community Development Lending and Investment Team, who note that the bank has helped its partners remain resilient in finding viable solutions ...
Oct 09, 2023•19 min
Oct 09, 2023•24 min
Economic headwinds and narrow margins are pushing industrial investment capital into secondary and tertiary cities, if they’re investing at all. Today, industrial investors are navigating through difficult market conditions. For many, this is the first time that the e-commerce-driven industrial segment has faced economic headwinds and required a more conservative strategy. Christopher Galiano, managing director-principal at NAI DiLeo-Bram, discusses these changing market dynamics, and how they’r...
Sep 08, 2023•15 min
Market downturn pressures hit commercial brokerages hard: from reduced deals and revenue drops to job cuts. . SVN International, however, views the market slowdown as a time for the opportunity to invest internally and retool for the upswing. In the latest episode of Thought Leadership podcast series, SVN International’s new leadership—CEO Xavier Mufraggi and president Tim Spillane—talk about the value of real estate advisors and how SVN is reinvesting in its business in spite of the market disr...
Jun 21, 2023•22 min
The combination of a regional banking crisis and rising interest rates has offered investors plenty of reason to lie awake at night—but KeyBank has a strategy to quelle those anxieties. In this episode of GlobeSt.’s Thought Leadership podcast series, Al Beaumariage, SVP and affordable housing program manager at KeyBank, and Cathy Danigelis, Western Region manager at KeyBank, discuss how minding the basics is helping clients to reach their business objectives. You’ll also hear: Why traditional re...
May 20, 2023•17 min
Multifamily investors took a pause at the end of 2022 after a turbulent year with seven staggering consecutive interest rate increases. Although demand dynamics remain positive, multifamily investors have had to quickly adjust to the higher cost of capital, which has driven a wide buyer-seller gap. Arthur Milston, senior managing director at NAI Global Capital Markets, and John Rutherford, SVP of investment sales at NAI Hallmark, join this episode in the Thought Leadership podcast series to disc...
Apr 07, 2023•26 min
The single-family housing rental (SFR) market quickly became a commercial real estate investment darling over the last few years. And as housing costs increased more than 13% last year , and mortgage rates are now keeping more potential buyers in rentals, demand from growing millennial families looking for spacious homes in quality neighborhoods is feeding the attention. But with the added attention has come some misconceptions as well, among them whether the investors are big Wall Street player...
Mar 15, 2023•24 min
With a threefold rise in natural disasters, weighing the increasing threat is becoming a necessary component to protecting an asset portfolio. Today, natural disasters occur three times more often than they did 50 years ago. The ubiquity of severe weather-related events has highlighted the urgency for multifamily investors to assess climate risk as part of standard due diligence when purchasing an asset or managing a portfolio. In this episode of the Multifamily Visions series, Joe DiTizio, asso...
Feb 22, 2023•12 min
This year, the Federal Reserve has increased interest rates six times, and it has signaled that more rate hikes are on the horizon. The higher cost of capital is sure to put a damper on affordable housing investment, just as the market was gaining momentum and investor interest. In this episode of GlobeSt.com’s Thought Leadership podcast series, Robert Likes, the president of the national affordable housing platform at KeyBank, uncovers how higher interest rates, along with other economic headwi...
Dec 05, 2022•15 min
In the last 12 months, multifamily investors have been plucking up opportunities far and wide, driving a historic surge in deal volume. The transaction activity has put pressure on valuation experts to keep up with unyielding demand. Meghan Czechowski, SVP and the head of Apprise by Walker & Dunlop, says the activity is extending appraisal timelines from two to three weeks to four to six weeks. But through innovation, companies like Walker & Dunlop are carving a path forward. In this epi...
Nov 29, 2022•11 min
With the right advisory team, multifamily investors can have it all: a swift transaction timeline and risk mitigation. Multifamily transactions in 2022 are a great balancing act. With sector volumes up 54% and sales volumes totaling $381 billion in the third quarter alone, it’s made some investors offer expedited transaction timelines and limited contingency periods in an effort to secure the bid. But it also narrows the window to conduct proper due diligence, markedly increasing the risk of the...
Nov 18, 2022•13 min
Nov 08, 2022•10 min
In the last few years, built-to-rent has become one of the most desirable property types in commercial real estate, with significant new entry into the market and some $40 billion of capital primed to support new development over the next 18 months. Despite the increased competition, investor fervor has not waned. Rather, industry players remain bullish on the housing niche with a positive outlook for continued growth and rising demand, and they continue to aggressively pursue opportunities. Red...
Oct 24, 2022•13 min
