The Real Estate Espresso Podcast

Today is another AMA episode (Ask Me Anything). William from Northern California asks,

I find myself coming across more development opportunities and I'm needing some better "back of the envelope" cr…

On today’s show we are looking at the casualties of the latest Fed policy moves.

On Wednesday of this week, the Federal reserve announced another 75 basis point increase at the FOMC meeting. These me…

On today’s show we are taking a look at some leading economic indicators that may give us some clues as to what is happening in our economy, ahead of the Federal Reserve’s meeting this week. I’m a hu…

Our book this month comes from Nassim Nicholas Taleb. He’s famous for his book “The Black Swan”. This book reshaped our culture’s thinking around rare but completely predictable events. His book, mov…

Today is another AMA episode (Ask Me Anything). Paul from Northern Florida asks.

I would like to first thank you for your work on your show. Your broad range of subjects and guest has made this a dai…

On today's show George and I are discussing maintaining flexibility in negotiation. At the end, George offers some advice on how to negotiate with politicians. We are so blessed to have George's advi…

Michael Coffee is with Stacksource.com, a fintech company that provides an automated and streamlined borrowing process for commercial real estate projects. The service matches the borrower with the l…

Our world is very confusing at the moment. Whatever thesis you create, you can find the evidence to support your point of view.

Even a review of the headlines in the Wall Street Journal on a single d…

Today is another AMA episode (Ask Me Anything). Mike asks,

Hi Victor,  I listen to your great podcast a lot and I notice that you and your company do a lot of development, which obviously effects and…

As real estate investors we are very sensitive to interest rates.

Rates for permanent loans are indexed to the yield on the 10 year treasury and in some cases on the yield for the 30 year treasury.

B…

On today’s show we’re talking about a major development project that we have underway. We closed yesterday on a parcel of land consisting of 1783 acres on the edge of Colorado Springs. This property …

Today is another AMA episode (Ask Me Anything). Davindra asks

I am a long time listener of your RE espresso podcast and have thoroughly enjoyed your well thought out  and efficiently delivered conten…

Allison Williams is a lender with walkerdunlop.com. On today's show we are talking about financing for multi-family apartment assets. Today's points are timely and top of mind for many investors. 

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Mikkel Thorup is based in Panama City, Panama where he helps people find a plan B residency in favorable locations. Many countries have programs that enable accelerated residency with investment in t…

For the past several weeks we have been focusing on macro economic conditions. It seems that all markets, the stock market, the bond market, and real estate are being dominated by the macro environme…

On today’s show we are talking about three different scenarios of central bank monetary policy and how that could impact the world of stocks, bonds, and real estate. I believe it’s important for inve…

On today’s show we are taking a look at the the impact of the falling Euro on US real estate. A recent report by brokerage house Marcus and Millichap looks specifically at this question.

The Euro has…

On today’s show we are taking another look energy markets and how energy costs affect the price of virtually everything.

I’m completely in favour of the idea of transitioning from burning oil, gas, b…

Real Estate values are often driven by influx of job and influx of population. On today’s show we’re talking about the semiconductor industry and the $52B injection of funds that are wrapped up in th…

Amy Johnson is a partner with Y Street Capital and is based in Salt Lake City, Utah where she specializes in development in multiple cities across the US. On today's show we are talking about the rel…