Contributors
Legal and Business Considerations for C-PACE Lenders During Origination and Entry Into the ABS Secondary Markets
By Diana Ovsepian With the rapid expansion of Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (CPACE) financing into mainstream commercial real estate transactions, industry stakeholders...
Microsoft’s Seattle Exodus: When Silicon Valley Calls the Shots
By Billy the Broker (I just want to stay anonymous) Microsoft has done what any rational business does when the center of gravity...
Making Room at the Table: The Case for Mixed-Income Housing
By Billy the Broker (I just want to stay anonymous) While not even the crankiest economist would claim that housing is simple, our approach to...
Home Building’s Private Equity Shuffle
By Billy the Broker (I just want to stay anonymous) Just when you thought the housing market couldn’t get more interesting, Apollo Global Management decided...
ProPublica: Liberal Oregon and Washington Vowed to Pioneer Green Energy. Almost Every Other State Is Beating Them.
by Tony Schick and Monica Samayoa, Oregon Public Broadcasting ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter...
McNellis’ Easter Tale: Countering Expectations
By John McNellis I probably shouldn’t put this in print, but here goes: we counter every offer we get. Even if we’re thrilled...
Monterey Musings: The Retail Reunion That Matters
By Billy the Broker (I just want to stay anonymous) Retail conferences are a lot like high school reunions — you go expecting to be...
McNellis: Bad Settlements Beat Good Lawsuits
By John McNellis This is a true story. A well-to-do investor—let’s call him Sam—owns a charming three-story brick office building in a city that...
America’s Housing Crisis: When the 1% Could Buy Us All Out
By Billy the Broker (I just want to stay anonymous) In a staggering illustration of America’s wealth gap, recent data from Redfin reveals that the...
Why Returning to the Office Is Worth It—Even If It’s a Little Messy
By Billy the Broker (I just want to stay anonymous) The return-to-office (RTO) debate has been one of the most hotly discussed topics in the...
Election, Inflation, and Rate Cuts: CRE Market Outlook for 2025
The closing months of 2024 were marked by significant events — including a presidential election, Federal Reserve rate cuts, and shifting economic trends....
Kingbird Sees a “Once-in-a-Generation” Opportunity for Multifamily Investment, Akin to Post-GFC
By Mark Pasierb, president of Kingbird Investment Management Looking ahead into 2025, there are many opportunities in commercial real estate—specifically in the resilient...
