Deconstruct
In Deconstruct, The Real Deal breaks down the most important ideas in real estate. We follow the money from Los Angeles to New York City to explain what investors, brokers and developers are focused on right now. This is essential listening for understanding the great, big world of real estate.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 20 minutes
- Episodes
- 136
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2024
Deconstruct Live at The Real Deal's Miami Forum: Inside Miami's Resi Market
In early November, the Deconstruct team flew to Miami for The Real Deal's annual showcase and forum. We're bringing you two interviews we recorded on site at the event. First, you'll hear from Miami …
About That NAR Verdict — Everything You Need To Know
On the last day of October, a jury found the National Association of Realtors and two brokerages — HomeServices of America and Keller Williams Realty — guilty of conspiring to artificially inflate br…
Meet Maya: Fredrik Eklund Takes on AI
Fredrik Eklund is now actually on 24/7. The "Million Dollar Listing" star broker and his partner John Gomes have launched a new AI tool called Maya, which allows buyers and agents to dig through list…
The Syndicator's Dilemma: A Multifamily Boom Goes Bust
Two years back, when money was still cheap, a new crop of investors was getting in on the red-hot multifamily market. Syndicators — investors who pool money to buy properties — turned to floating-rat…
The Distress Roiling the CMBS Markets
"A slow-moving train wreck." That's what Daniel McNamara, the founder of Polpo Capital, calls the upcoming wall of maturities — the massive amount of commercial mortgage-backed securities coming due …
The Father of CMBS Talks Origin Stories, Great Recession and Today's Distress
In the early '90s, Ethan Penner pioneered the commercial mortgage-backed security. Thirty years later, the father of CMBS breaks down the investment product's origin story, the writing on the wall be…
As New Development Stalls, Swire Properties is Still Reshaping Miami
Tighter lending conditions have proved a thorn in the side of many Miami developers. But not Swire Properties. Henry Bott, the new president of the firm's American arm, discusses development plans fo…
Filling the Gap: The Private Players Turning to Real Estate
As the market for traditional lending, through regional banks or commercial mortgage-backed securities, has dried up, more private credit lenders and financiers have hopped into the real estate space…
The Agency's Mauricio Umansky Talks Resi Rebound and Reality TV
Mauricio Umansky is a busy guy. His brokerage The Agency opened a New York office last year, then a Hamptons outpost early this summer. His firm and family star in the Netflix series Buying Beverly H…
Why Related Companies Is Still Building Office
Related Companies is building offices in Chicago, Austin and West Palm Beach. That's right — offices. At a time when so many firms are pausing office development, citing a lack of tenant demand and t…
CrowdStreet, Nightingale and a Crowdfunding Disaster
In June, a group of investors who invested in a Nightingale Properties-sponsored deal on crowdfunding platform CrowdStreet found out their money was missing. The Real Deal's podcast Deconstruct looks…
Inside Larry Silverstein's New Lease on Life
At 92 years old, Larry Silverstein is shaking things up. The founder of Silverstein Properties is spearheading a mammoth office-to-residential conversion. He's thrown his hat in the ring for the city…
We're baaack! Deconstruct Season 3 Coming Soon
The Real Deal's Deconstruct is back with a fresh season of interviews, deep dives and market analysis on Tuesday, September 5. After that, catch us every Monday on Apple, Spotify, TheRealDeal.com or …
RXR Realty CEO Scott Rechler Talks Distress, Slowdowns and Opportunity
RXR Realty CEO Scott Rechler's year has centered on "Project Kodak" — a strategy of separating older, obsolete office buildings from a younger product that can still pull the tenants and rents to th…
Too Hot to Handle: The Hamptons Housing Crunch
It’s no secret the Hamptons boomed during the pandemic. New Yorkers fled the city in search of year-round vacation properties, stoking for-sale demand that flooded over into rentals. As the market en…
Why Palm Beach is Seeing Record Mansion Pricing
Real estate is a sport in Palm Beach. And billionaires are still making moves, despite an overall slowdown in home buying across the country. The luxury market in the South Florida town has been prop…
Could 16M Vacant Homes Solve the Housing Crisis?
The U.S. is short 6.5 million homes, Realtor.com estimates. The solution, argues Kurt Carlton, co-founder of investment platform New Western, are the 16 million houses that sit vacant. Deconstruct br…
Is Texas Immune From Distress?
In the pandemic, a wave of new residents flooded into Texas. No income tax, cheaper homes and plenty of good barbecue joints. Six of the 15 fastest growing cities in the country from July 2021 throug…
New York's Rent Law Battle Enters Its Third Act
Nearly four years after landlords challenged New York’s sweeping set of rent reforms, their suit has finally landed where they'd hoped: U.S. Supreme Court's doorstep. Deconstruct breaks down owners’ …
Reinventing the American Mall With Bill Shopoff
For many, the U.S. mall is an institution. But for others, as more brick-and-mortar stores face trouble, malls are an opportunity. More and more developers are looking at malls to redevelop them into…