Real Estate Twitter—aka #RETwit—is full of characters, including one of the cartoon variety known as ‘Strip Mall Guy.’ On Twitter, he’s @RealEstateTrent and, with 42,000+ followers, he has a devoted and quickly growing following. Off Twitter, he keeps a low profile—which is no easy feat given he runs a successful…
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Keith Wasserman—‘real estate Twitter OG and 800-pound gorilla of the Los Angeles real estate private equity community’—knows a thing or two about getting results. And it was his decision-making prowess that helped him grow his firm into what it is today. Gelt, Inc. owns 6,000 apartments in markets from Denver…
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This year saw Juniper Square significantly expand its business. See our full list of 2021 highlights here. Customers are at the forefront of everything we do at Juniper Square. As 2021 brought new challenges and opportunities for investment managers, Juniper Square expanded its business in response to the industry-wide trend…
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Real estate companies are beginning to embrace the use of analytics and data-driven insights to better inform investor relations, streamline operations, increase productivity, and improve fundraising. But while data is everywhere, sorting through it to find what is useful and pertinent to your business can be extremely challenging. Many organizations…
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To learn more about the challenges commercial real estate investment managers are facing when it comes to investment operations and administration, we recently partnered with IMN to conduct a survey of executives at sponsor firms. The Commercial Real Estate Investment Operations and Administration Survey, which launched on October 4 and…
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This article on CRE marketing best practices, is the first in a six-part series on lessons learned at Re-convene, real estate private equity’s “un-conference.” Check back to get additional advice from CRE experts Chris Powers, Keith Wasserman, Eliot Bencuya, Marc Gilbert, and Neville Rhone. How are you setting your CRE…
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As the 2021 (err… 2020?) Olympic Games began in Tokyo last week, we began to wonder: can you imagine if every athlete on a team was responsible for keeping track of their own statistics? For example, in the time trials for the 8-person crew competition, each rower would have a…
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We wanted to understand what the fastest-growing commercial real estate investment firms were doing differently in order to identify best practices in leadership and operations management. To do this, we conducted a survey of CRE executives June 15-July 2, 2021, and asked a range of questions about portfolio growth, strategy,…
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The hotel real estate was among the hardest hit during the pandemic, but things are starting to look promising again. The continued vaccine rollout coupled with additional stimulus funds has more people booking vacation travel. This has accelerated projected occupancy levels at U.S. hotels — for the second half of…
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Gradually, then suddenly. Despite two decades of steady growth of remote work in America, in 2019 less than 20% of Americans reported working remotely even some of the time. In 2020, full-time work from home became the norm for some 71% of office workers. (Source: Pew Research.) In a single…
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