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Steve Marcinuk
14 Jul 2025

While many retail properties struggle with e-commerce competition, one surprising segment is attracting major institutional capital: unanchored shopping centers. According to George Wommack, CEO of Headwall Investments, these centers’ heavy concentration of service-based tenants makes them uniquely positioned to thrive in the digital era. The Service-Retail Shield “Over 90% of these portfolios are service retailers, ...

Steve Marcinuk
02 Jul 2025

The 1031 exchange industry has a revenue model that few investors fully understand, according to Judd Schoenholtz Co-Founder & CEO Deferred, one PropTech leader who’s pushing for reform. Qualified Intermediaries (QIs) are earning massive interest revenues while continuing to charge substantial transaction fees to clients, creating what some see as an unnecessarily expensive system for ...

Steve Marcinuk
28 Jun 2025

Seth Williams, founder of REtipster and host of The REtipster Podcast, argues that the traditionally data-focused land investing industry is experiencing a fundamental shift requiring investors to embrace old-school sales tactics to succeed in 2025’s challenging market. The End of “Set It and Forget It” Land Investing “It used to be a very data-driven business ...

Steve Marcinuk
28 Jun 2025

Real estate content creators might be wasting time trying to be everywhere at once, according to Seth Williams, Founder of REtipster and host of The REtipster Podcast, who argues that understanding platform demographics is more crucial than maintaining a broad presence. The Platform Paradox “Pick one social media platform that you’re really going to specialize ...

Steve Marcinuk
28 Jun 2025

Content creation in real estate has become increasingly crowded and competitive, but according to REtipster host Seth Williams, the path to building genuine authority might be slower and more thoughtful than many assume. The Value-First Paradox “All you have to do is just be yourself and be genuinely helpful and just create value for people,” ...

Steve Marcinuk
22 Jun 2025

Jared White, Managing Partner at Quadrum Global, argues that traditional market data often lags behind the real opportunities in emerging real estate markets. Instead, he points to a more nuanced “gravitational force” theory that helps identify promising locations before they show up in conventional metrics. The Hidden Indicators of Market Potential “There is a gravitational ...

Steve Marcinuk
20 Jun 2025

The real estate industry is on the cusp of a dramatic shift in how agents manage client relationships, according to Cyrus Mohseni, Co-Founder & Vice President of Strategy and Growth at The Keystone Team. Mohseni argues that artificial intelligence will soon make traditional Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems obsolete. The End of Manual Client Management ...

Steve Marcinuk
18 Jun 2025

“If I asked you, would you buy a farm in New York City or Miami today? The answer is, of course you would, because the cost of a farm is generally valued at much less than equal acreage in a large city,” says Derek Distenfield, Managing Partner of DDB Capital Fund. This simple insight forms ...

Steve Marcinuk
12 Jun 2025

Austin’s multifamily market is grappling with significant oversupply, particularly in the luxury segment, as developers’ aggressive building programs have outpaced population growth, according to a veteran local property manager. “We built all these brand new units, and we just don’t have the population coming here now,” says Mike Martine, VP of Martine Properties, describing what ...

Steve Marcinuk
05 Jun 2025

After a historic run of rapid appreciation, the South Florida real estate market is beginning to cool. Larry Mastropieri, Broker and Owner of The Mastropieri Group, a boutique luxury brokerage serving the region, puts it plainly. “The real estate market is softening. That’s probably the most accurate, fair way to say what’s happening,” he says. ...

Steve Marcinuk
23 May 2025

While housing affordability dominates headlines and rectangular apartment blocks multiply across urban landscapes, one development firm is charting a different course. Cedar Street Partners is prioritizing thoughtful design, mixed-use functionality, and community benefits in ways that serve multiple stakeholders simultaneously. “We’re focused on creating places that people will enjoy and savor. We don’t have enough ...

Steve Marcinuk
12 May 2025

After syndicating over $7.5 billion in real estate deals and selling his previous company with $1 billion in assets under management, Michael Anderson, Founding Member of PREIshare, could have enjoyed a well-earned retirement. Instead, he’s tackling one of the industry’s most persistent challenges: the lack of liquidity for limited partners in real estate syndication deals. ...

Steve Marcinuk
12 May 2025

In traditional real estate syndication, investors face a stark reality: their capital is locked up for years with virtually no exit options until the property sells. This lack of liquidity has been a significant barrier for potential investors and a major friction point for syndicators raising capital. Recent regulatory developments and technological innovation are now ...

Steve Marcinuk
27 Mar 2025

“Indianapolis has always had a strong local buyer group,” notes Cameron Benz, First Vice President with CBRE‘s Indianapolis-based Multifamily team, “but with older vintage properties, you see more coastal buyers.” This shift represents a growing trend in commercial real estate that’s reshaping the multifamily investment landscape across the Midwest. Safety and Cash Flow: The Midwest ...

Steve Marcinuk
27 Mar 2025

“San Francisco appears have bounced off the bottom and is starting to come back,” says Brad Lagomarsino, Vice Chair of Multi-Family Investments at Colliers in San Francisco. After years of negative headlines and market uncertainty, the city’s multi-family sector is seeing renewed interest from institutional investors and family offices, marking what could be a significant ...