The Real Estate Espresso Podcast

Andrew Abernathey is based in Phoenix Arizona where he develops storage facilities in Arizona and California. Working closely with a family office, Andrew and his team at Abernathey Holdings are scal…

Today's question comes from Christian who asks: I’m small time RE investor and about to do my first long distance flip. Is it worth hiring a project management company? It is a flat fee and they woul…

On today’s show we are going through a thought experiment about the risk of large global divisions and how that might affect your real estate development project.

To walk through the process, we are …

The Wall Street Journal finally reported on something that investors and lenders have known for more than nine months. 

The rapid rise in interest rates has created a structural problem for commercia…

How do you know if a project bid is good? On today’s show we are talking about how to value engineer a project.

We’re going to look at a project that has a firm bid on it. Overall, the construction b…

On today’s show we are looking at the design of industrial warehouse buildings. Building designs are changing from a functional perspective and this is important when you consider investment in indus…

Deborah Smith is based in the NY area where she plays a key role in institutional investing at the Center Cap Group in industrial real estate. In particular, she is a big fan of industrial outdoor st…

Dan Haberkost is based in Colorado Springs where he is the founder of Front Range Land. The company specializes in in-fill land improvements all over the South-east. On today's show we are talking ab…

On today’s show, we are taking a look at one of the largest economies in the world and wondering why it seems to be sputtering.

We are of course, talking about China. Earlier this year the Chinese ec…

 Our book this month is called "Debt: the last 5000 years.” 

I expected this book to be thought-provoking, and it did not disappoint.

The author of the book is anthropologist David Graeber and the …

On today’s show we are looking at an outlook for inflation of construction prices and how this is going to play out over the next three years. 

There is no question that construction prices have come…

On today’s show we are going to put forward a hypothesis. A hypothesis is an untested idea. It’s hypothetical which is why it is called a hypothesis. 

Specifically we’re going to look at the balance …

On today’s show we’re coming to you live from Multi Family Conference in Toronto. 

There were a number of great speakers at the conference, but I want to focus on one speaker in particular. Our Nort…

Mark Kenney is a principal at Think MultiFamily in Dallas Texas. He and his partners have amassed a portfolio of more than 14,000 apartments. On today's show we are talking about lessons learned from…

Quentin DSouza is based in Toronto Canada where he has grown as sizeable portfolio of multi-family apartments. On today's show Quentin talks about his strategy for stimulating rent growth in a rent c…

Today’s question comes from Mathieu who asks:

I’m experiencing sellers who are demanding unreasonable terms when it comes to even looking at a property. They are asking me to get the property under c…

On today’s show we are looking at short term rentals to see what market conditions are best suited to this product type. 

In addition, some critics are zeroing in on a legal gray zone in the world of…

On today’s show we are taking a look at the so-called liquidity crunch to understand why it is happening. Is it just rumour? Is the lack of liquidity real? 

On today’s show we have concrete proof as …

On today’s show we are talking about conservation easements. 

We tend to think of the income tax code as a mechanism for extracting revenue from the population and from businesses. To be fair, that …