Contributors
Why CRE Experts Say the Looming $1.26 Trillion Debt Wall Can Be Scaled
By Kidder Mathews Roughly $1.26 trillion in commercial real estate loans are set to mature through 2027. Most originated in the mid-2010s, when rates averaged between...
How Does Humanity Fit into an AI World?
By Hans Hansson, President of Starboard CRE Reflections from a Real Estate Convention and Beyond Introduction: An Unexpected Encounter in Nashville Last week...
Hudson Pacific’s Puget Sound Assets Hold Steady as Leasing Improves, Losses Persist
Hudson Pacific Properties’ third-quarter 2025 results showed continued financial strain for the West Coast-focused office landlord, but its Pacific Northwest assets—centered largely in...
LEED v5 is Here: What to Know About the Business of Building Better
By Tolga Tutar, Senior Sustainability Director at Skanska USA Building For the first time in over a decade, the U.S. Green Building Council...
McNellis to Accountants: Gimme Shelter
(Editor’s note: this essay is taken from John’s forthcoming 3rd edition of Making it in Real Estate which, with only a bit of...
Factory-Built Housing: The Solution We’re Too Snobbish to Embrace
By Billy the Broker (I just want to stay anonymous) Here’s a riddle: What if I told you there’s a proven way to build homes...
The Kids Are Not Alright: Why Your 30-Something Children Still Live at Home
By Billy the Broker (I just want to stay anonymous) If you’re wondering why your college-educated offspring are still camped out in their childhood bedrooms...
McNellis: Death of a Deal
By John McNellis In Rochambeau, paper beats rock. In life, paper sometimes beats deals. We own a shopping center in a Sacramento suburb...
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...
