CRE Exchange: Commercial Real Estate, Property Valuations, Real Estate Analytics and Property Tax
The CRE Exchange is your go-to podcast for all matters of commercial real estate. It hosts cutting-edge conversations with industry experts that offer CRE professionals timely insight into market behaviors and analysis to discover new opportunities and better manage risks and costs. We discuss Commercial Real Estate, Property Valuations, Real Estate Analytics, and Property Tax. Whether you buy or build, assist or advise, if you are a key stakeholder in the CRE space, this show is for you. bumper-verify-f47d90bf
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Where is OB3 one year later, and what's next for opportunity zones?
<p>A year after the One Big Beautiful Bill Act passed and with Opportunity Zones now entering a second act, the tax and structuring landscape for CRE has evolved. In this episode of CRE Exchange, Cole Perry and Omar Eltorai sit down with Lisa Knee, Managing Partner of Real Estate Services at EisnerAmper, to unpack what has changed. Lisa shares her knowledge on which OB3 provisions are impacting deals a year later, walks through the mechanics of Opportunity Zones 2.0, including the adjustment to a permanent program with rolling five-year deferrals, and discusses what she’s seeing in fund formation as in...
Treasuries up, spreads down, and office improving
<p>Treasuries moved up, spreads continued to compress, and office financing costs kept improving; that's the Q2 2026 story in broad strokes, though the drama is in the details. In this episode of CRE Exchange, Cole Perry and Omar Eltorai sit down with Andrew Pabon, Altus Group's Director of Debt Advisory, to break down what the Q2 Debt Capital Markets Survey is showing. SOFR has effectively bottomed while five and ten-year Treasuries moved up 20 to 30 basis points, spread compression continued but fell short of fully offsetting those benchmark moves on fixed-rate products, and deal structuring conversations have fully repriced to a...
Capital rotation, real assets, and a new era for CRE deals
<p>Capital is rotating, the line between real estate and infrastructure is blurring, and the deals getting done today look different from those of even three years ago. In this episode of CRE Exchange, Omar Eltorai sits down with Tim Bodner, who leads PwC's US and global real estate deals practice, to discuss the firm's 2026 midyear CRE outlook. They cover the real assets convergence thesis, why operational prowess is replacing cap rate compression as the primary value driver, where REIT consolidation goes from here, and how private capital is redefining the dealmaking landscape. </p><p></p><p>Key moments</p>02:10...
Credit conditions, consumer stress, and office finding a bottom
<p>The latest CRE Exchange covers a packed week of data and market. Cole Perry and Omar Eltorai work through the June CPI print, consumer credit pullback, and existing home sales data before digging into the WSJ economist survey and Fed meeting minutes, where the most notable detail is a credit market splitting between large and small borrowers. The episode closes with early Q2 bank earnings from the four largest US banks, including reserve releases on office CRE loans at Bank of America and Wells Fargo that suggest the office credit cycle may be turning, and lender scrutiny around data...
Midyear CRE recap: Growth, inflation, and the exit bet
<p>The first half of 2026 opened with a soft-landing story and closed with reignited inflation, sub-2% growth, and a hawkish Fed. In this midyear episode of CRE Exchange, Cole Perry and Omar Eltorai work through what did happen: four straight Fed holds, consumer confidence at its lowest in the survey's 70-plus year history, and a frozen housing market.</p><p>Omar follows with the public markets story, where REITs returned nearly 14%, and REIT M&A is on pace for its most active year in a decade, even as private CRE remained in a gradual recovery mode. The episode closes with...
Fed shifts, ROAD to Housing Act, and CRE as an inflation hedge
<p>For their 100th episode, Cole Perry and Omar Eltorai cover three topics relevant to the CRE landscape right now. First, a new Fed era: Kevin Warsh's first meeting signaled less transparency, five active policy task forces, and markets now pricing in one to two rate hikes by year's end. Second, the Road to Housing Act has cleared both chambers (but a presidential signing is now in question after Trump canceled the ceremony pending passage of a separate voter ID bill). The episode breaks down what the institutional SFR ban, the build-to-rent provisions, and the supply-side reforms mean for investors...
US CRE pricing hits records as transaction patterns diverge
<p>Commercial real estate just hit an all-time high at $129 per square foot median price, however the pricing records mask stark divergences in property transaction patterns; Multifamily buildings are 23% smaller than 2019 yet selling for record prices. Older stock is outpricing newer product. Deal sizes are hitting all-time highs while building sizes shrink. The team breaks down the Q1 2026 Investment and Transactions Quarterly report to surface these inversions, and why CRE pricing showed surprising resilience through Q1’s macro shocks.</p><p></p><p>Key moments</p><p>01:31 What is the US CRE Investment and Transactions Quarterly report?</p><p>03:05 National ac...
What the Q1 2026 ODCE and REIT data say about CRE right now
<h3>US commercial real estate started 2026 on steady footing, but the story varies considerably depending on what part of the market you look at. In this episode of CRE Exchange, our hosts are joined by Alex Jaffe and Mike Amthor from Altus Group's Valuation Advisory practice to discuss Q1 2026 ODCE index results alongside REIT earnings themes. The team also takes a look at the residential market inversion between Sun Belt and gateway cities, the SoCal industrial softness that isn't clearing yet, and what fund managers are saying about 2026 and 2027 as a potential entry point for long-term capital deployment.</h3><p><...
A split market: Commercial real estate lending trends from Q1 2026
<h3>From a 24% quarter-over-quarter rebound in lender quotes to the diverging paths of floating and fixed rate borrowers, the episode offers a data-driven read from Andrew Pabon, Director of Debt Advisory at Altus Group, on where the debt market stands today. Andrew and the CRE Exchange team also dig into the maturity wall, multifamily delinquencies hitting new highs, the lender mix leaning toward debt funds, and what the private credit stress story might mean for private credit in commercial real estate going forward.</h3><h3> </h3><h3>Key moments</h3><p><br></p><h3>01:10 SLOOS signals</h3><h3>02:39 Earnings call t...
CRE workouts, maturity walls, and the art of restructuring
<p>We sit down with returning guest Shlomo Chopp, Managing Partner of Case Equity Partners, for a candid discussion about CRE distress; the causes, the workout process, and what it takes to get to resolution. Shlomo draws on more than two decades of restructuring and advisory experience to explain why fatigued capital is pulling back from existing deals, what the maturity wall actually means for borrowers and lenders in 2026 and 2027, and why good intentions can walk a borrower straight into a recourse situation. The conversation also covers Shlomo’s LinkedIn series The Road to Default, the real job of a wo...
