Hospitality: The Return of Physical Events

Group travel and conferences are surging as post-COVID conversions wind down. Corporate retreats, trade shows, and conventions are driving higher occupancy and premium rates for hotels with meeting space.

Winning metros: Las Vegas, Orlando, New Orleans, Austin

Who's winning: Operators with group-friendly layouts and scalable meeting infrastructure

Industrial: Escape Velocity

Last-mile logistics and light industrial spaces are seeing 8–12% annual rent growth. E-commerce demand keeps climbing, and 3PLs are consolidating real estate at scale.

Who's deploying capital: PE, debt funds, and REITs rotating in for stable cash flow and downside protection

Where the Money Is Actually Going

Institutional capital is chasing both sectors, but not evenly. Secondary and tertiary metros (San Antonio, Oklahoma City, Inland Empire) are moving fastest due to tight supply and strong e-commerce fundamentals.

The shift: Capital stopped chasing trophy assets alone. It's now hunting playgrounds with real cash flow, occupancy momentum, and demographics that actually work.

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Capital splitting into two flows. Operators positioning now are winning.

The Housing Play: Adaptive Reuse

90,300 office-to-residential conversions in pipeline. Conversion costs $250-275k per unit. Office buildings at 40-60% discounts. Downtown residential land costs $500k-$1M per unit—the discount covers conversion.

Incentives: Historic Tax Credit (20%), Low-Income Housing Tax Credit, property tax abatements, TIF, federal 20% conversion credit pending.

The Play: Capital flowing into downtown cores with residential demand and weak office fundamentals.

The Infrastructure Play: AI Data Centers

$600-725B deploying in 2026. Goldman Sachs projects $7.6T through 2031.

The Constraint: Power. 30-50% of planned 2026 US AI data centers delayed/canceled due to grid constraints.

The Economics: 1 gigawatt facility generates $14B annual revenue. 1-2 year payback on 15-year asset.

The Play: Operators who secure power win. Capital flows to markets with power availability.

Your Position

• Downtown + residential demand? Adaptive reuse.
• Power + hyperscaler interest? Data centers.
• Neither? Sidelines.

Operators positioning now are winning.

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Alternative lenders captured 37% of non-agency CRE loan closings in 2025, up from historical averages. Banks dropped to 31%. This shift is structural. Non-banks move fast. They structure deals banks won't touch. Higher leverage. Mezzanine options. Transitional assets. Bridge financing. Capital is rotating away from big-box industrial toward flex space. Flex is trading in the mid-to-high 6% range with 4.2% vacancy versus 7-7.5% for broader industrial. Rent growth is stronger. Demand is resilient.

Private credit funds raised about $30 billion in 2025 alone for North American real estate debt. Private credit AUM globally is projected to hit or exceed $2 trillion in 2026. Why? Refinancing wall. About $936 billion in CRE loan maturities in 2026. Banks aren't covering it. Non-bank lenders are filling the gap. First-lien loans in the 8.0 to 8.5% range. These are attractive risk-adjusted returns for institutional capital. Pension funds, insurance companies, family offices are all allocating to private credit. For quality assets with experienced sponsors, capital is available but selective. The market is separating winners from losers.

There's a fourth player emerging: tokenized real estate. Fractional ownership on blockchain. USDC yields. Global access. No traditional refinancing cycle. Platforms like RealT have tokenized 970+ properties. Investors from 125+ countries. Daily rental income distributed in USDC. Entry points as low as $50. Tokenized real estate is currently around $20 billion with projections to reach $1.5 trillion over the next decade. Capital isn't frozen. It's rotating. Away from banks toward non-banks. Away from big-box industrial toward flex. Away from traditional refinancing toward private credit and tokenized alternatives.

Capital is available but selective, disciplined, flowing to quality assets with experienced operators and strong fundamentals. The operators who understand this moment are positioning now. The ones waiting for perfect conditions are getting left behind. This is the conversation happening in the rooms that matter.

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After years of record deliveries, the worst of the oversupply wave is passing. In 2024 and 2025, DFW delivered record apartment units. Vacancy hit 12%, a 20-year high. But construction is collapsing. The pipeline has shrunk for 11 straight quarters. In 2025, DFW delivered about 32,000 units. In 2026, completions are projected to drop to around 25,000. That's a 50% decline from peak. Q1 2026 data shows occupancy at 93.2%. Rents averaging $1,483. By late 2026, occupancy is hitting 93.5% and rents recovering to around $1,517. DFW is moving from an oversupplied market to an operator's market. Now let's talk about policy risk.

Los Angeles passed Measure ULA in 2022. It's called the mansion tax. 4% on real estate sales over $5.3 million. 5.5% over $10.6 million. But it applies to all high-value properties. Not just mansions. Multifamily apartments. Commercial buildings. Mixed-use sites. Everything over the threshold gets hit. Sales of multifamily-zoned properties over $5.3 million fell by nearly two-thirds after the tax passed. UCLA research shows the tax caused a causal reduction of at least 1,910 multifamily units per year. That's an 18% decline relative to pre-tax averages. Multifamily permits fell 27% post-tax.

Federal data shows only 7,363 multifamily units permitted in one recent year. That's a 46% drop from 2022. The lowest since 2013. Developers are leaving. They're shifting to suburbs like Burbank. They're going to other states. The tax raised about $1.19 billion. But revenue is falling short of projections. Fewer sales mean fewer transactions. And because of Prop 13, fewer sales also reduce ongoing property tax revenue. The net effect is a housing deficit, including fewer affordable units. The policy backfired. You try to tax the rich, but you end up destroying the supply you're trying to create. Here's what's really happening. You have two markets moving in opposite directions.

DFW is healing because supply is normalizing. LA is getting worse because policy is destroying supply. Capital is flowing to markets where supply is rational and policy doesn't punish you for building. DFW is getting capital. LA is losing capital. Operators in DFW are about to see rent growth. Operators in LA are about to see continued pressure. This is the moment where the market separates the winners from the losers. DFW operators who understand the supply inflection are positioning now. LA operators who don't understand policy risk are getting left behind. Supply cycles are predictable if you pay attention. Policy risk is avoidable if you're smart about where you deploy capital. DFW gets it. LA doesn't. This is the conversation happening in the rooms that matter.

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Law firms are anchoring the premium office market, 21.7% of all leases above $100 PSF in Q1 2026. Meanwhile, San Francisco apartment rents are surging 7.7% year-over-year, with South of Market up 19.2% and Mission Bay up 15.8%. Quality assets are separating from everything else. Capital knows where to go. It's going to quality. It's going to scarcity. It's going to assets with pricing power. If you own mediocre real estate, you're in trouble. If you own quality real estate in a supply-constrained market, you're printing money. This is the conversation happening in the rooms that matter.

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In Q1 2026, alternative lenders captured 53% of non-agency CRE loan closings, up from 19% a year ago. Banks got squeezed out by regulatory constraints and now sit at 22% market share. Non-banks move faster and are more flexible on structure, but charge higher rates and tighter covenants. Quality assets get funded. Mediocre deals struggle. The operators who understand where capital is coming from, how to structure deals for non-bank lenders, and the true cost of that capital are the ones deploying right now. The rest are sitting on the sidelines.

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Supply chains are reshuffling. Capital is flooding into industrial real estate in Texas. But construction costs just jumped 6.2%. Energy prices are up. Steel is up. Lumber is up. The economics of building new industrial capacity to support onshoring are getting crushed. Developers trying to build new face margin compression. A project that penciled at 8% returns six months ago is now looking at 4% or 5%. Some deals don't pencil at all anymore. But existing industrial assets? That's where the real play is.

Operators with existing industrial in Houston are capturing onshoring demand without construction risk. They're leasing existing space at premium rates to companies reshoring operations. Existing industrial assets are becoming scarce. Developers trying to build new capacity are facing construction inflation that's eating their returns. Smart money figured this out already. They're buying existing industrial in Houston, not developing new. Existing assets command premium pricing. New development gets delayed or repriced lower. The scarcity of existing industrial is real. And capital knows it. For operators in Houston right now, you need to understand your position.

Do you own existing industrial capturing onshoring demand? Or are you trying to develop new capacity at breakeven economics? Because the market is separating those two positions very clearly right now. Existing industrial in Houston is a goldmine. New development is a trap unless you can absorb construction inflation.

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No office space left. That's huge. But what does that actually mean? It means trophy office is back. And it's not just a New York story. This is a bifurcation signal on steroids. While Hudson Yards is at full occupancy, distressed office investments hit 4.3 billion dollars in 2025. A decade high. So you've got two markets happening at the same time. Trophy assets thriving. Aging stock getting crushed. So capital is consolidating? Exactly. Flight to quality. The best buildings, the best locations, the best experiences—that's where serious money is moving. Everything else is getting repriced hard. What about the operators caught in the middle? They're in trouble. If you own aging office without a trophy positioning, you're facing serious pressure. Tenants are moving to Hudson Yards. They're moving to the best buildings. They're not staying in mediocre space. So what's the play for operators right now? You either own or control trophy assets, or you're repositioning aggressively to become one.

There's no middle ground anymore. The market is separating. Capital is concentrating in the best buildings. Smaller players are getting squeezed out. And this is accelerating? It's accelerating fast. Hudson Yards at full occupancy while distressed office hits a decade high—that's not a coincidence. That's the market telling you exactly where it's going. Trophy or trouble. That's the choice. So for operators watching this, you need to understand your position in this bifurcation. Are you trophy? Are you becoming trophy? Or are you exposed? Because capital knows the difference. And it's moving accordingly. The operators who see this shift clearly, who understand that trophy is the only sustainable play.

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Most people see this as fitness brand diversification. But wellness is becoming a capital allocation signal. The best operators in real estate aren't just building apartments or office space. They're building experiences. And capital is following that shift hard. Luxury properties are competing on wellness amenities now. Rooftop recovery centers. Spa amenities. Integrated fitness. These aren't nice-to-haves anymore - they're deal-makers. Properties without a wellness layer are getting repriced lower. It's a different kind of bifurcation. Used to be Class A versus Class B.

Now it's experiences versus dumb boxes. Operators with aging stock, no wellness integration - they're facing serious repricing pressure. The smart money figured this out already. Equinox expanding signals that wellness is reshaping where capital goes. Hotels. Residences. Adaptive reuse. These are the vectors where serious operators are deploying capital right now. If you're not thinking about the wellness layer in your real estate strategy, you're already behind. You need to understand this shift. This is the moment where the market is separating the operators who get it from the ones who don't.

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National multifamily rents remain down 0.2%, with massive oversupply in the Sun Belt creating a bifurcated market. The numbers are stark: - 740,000 units currently in lease-up, mostly in the Sun Belt - Dallas vacancy at 12.2%, Houston at 19.5%, Austin at 16.7% - Austin rents down 4.3% YoY, Denver -3.6%, Tampa -3.4%, Phoenix -2.7% - Meanwhile, New York up 4.8%, San Francisco up 4.1%, Chicago up 3.3% Construction starts have collapsed from 2022 peaks, but the backlog from 2024-2025 is still hitting the market.

Expect 12-18 months of continued pressure in oversupplied markets. The opportunity? Outer-ring submarkets in the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Texas are showing double-digit rent growth. Employment gains are strong (Charlotte +37.6K, Dallas +14.9K, Tampa +15.5K). The smart money is moving to where supply is constrained and employment is strong. The operators winning right now are the ones who understand the moment and move decisively. The ones losing are waiting for perfect conditions that aren't coming.

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RevPAR growth now expected between 2.75 and 5.25 percent. That's luxury performing while the broader market is flat. Here's what's happening. Affluent travelers are spending more. They're staying longer. They're choosing experiences over everything else. And the smart money knows this. Private equity is mobilizing. They backed 46 percent of all travel and hospitality deal value in the second half of 2025. That's 20 billion dollars. But they're not buying midscale hotels. They're buying luxury. They're buying lifestyle properties. Design-led, experience-driven assets that command premium pricing. Trinity Investments and Sculptor just bought the JW Marriott Marco Island Beach Resort for 835 million dollars. 809 rooms. 27 acres. Golf. Event space. That's the playbook.

Meanwhile, what's not working? Midscale hotels are getting crushed. Independent hotels are facing margin pressure. The flight to quality is real and it's accelerating. Supply is the story. Luxury segment hit a record high in Q1. 102 projects, 25,527 rooms. That's up 16 percent in projects and 23 percent in rooms year over year. But here's the thing. That's still constrained. The broader market is adding 77,000 rooms in 2026. Luxury is a fraction of that. Scarcity is driving pricing power. And then there's India. The luxury hospitality market in India is 18 billion dollars right now. By 2030, it's going to be 85 to 90 billion dollars. That's 12 to 20 percent compound annual growth. 100 million affluent consumers. 1.2 million millionaires. Capital is flowing there hard.

So where is the smart money actually going? Luxury resorts in gateway markets. Lifestyle hotels in Asia Pacific. Wellness properties. Properties with spa, with events, with experiences that justify premium pricing. Branded residences. Four Seasons residences. Auberge residences. HNWIs are buying these. They're not just hotels. They're alternative investments. And the capital markets are cooperating. Senior debt is mispriced at 8 to 8.5 percent. That's protection for strong markets. Cap rates are stable. Dry powder is deploying. The bifurcation is complete. Luxury is winning. Everything else is fighting for scraps. The people who understand this moment, who can read the data and know where capital is actually flowing, they're positioning now.

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Here's the real story: it's bifurcated. Forty-one of the fifty major markets are showing year-over-year rent improvement. But the Sun Belt is getting absolutely crushed. Austin, Phoenix, Denver, Atlanta seeing 15-21% rent cuts. Record vacancies. The post-pandemic construction boom is still delivering into softening demand. Austin alone went from massive permitting in 2024 to basically nothing in 2025. Ninety-seven percent collapse in permits. But developers are already planning 2026 starts for 2027 and 2028 delivery. They're betting that when supply dries up, they'll be positioned. Supply is finally peaking. Deliveries expected to drop to around 450,000 units in 2026, down from 595,000 in 2025. That's a massive shift. But demand is still there. 637,000 units were absorbed in 2025. That's the seventh best year ever. Coastal markets and low-supply markets are seeing rent growth. Sun Belt oversupply is still a problem. Single-family rents are rising while multifamily is flattening. Record rent gap between the two. The pattern is clear: Vacancy stabilizing. Supply peaking. But rent growth is bifurcated. Winners and losers are being determined right now. The operators who understand this moment, who can read the data and know where to actually deploy capital, they're the ones winning.

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Q1 apartment deliveries just hit a four-year low. We're talking about the fewest new units hitting the market in years. All those markets that got absolutely hammered with supply over the last couple years are finally getting a breather. The oversupply problem is starting to solve itself. Not because demand exploded. Because builders finally stopped swinging the hammer. Meanwhile, Blackstone just crossed 1.3 trillion in assets under management. You know what carried that entire quarter? Data centers and energy. Not traditional real estate. Not office. Data centers. That's the capital flow right now. That's where the smart money is moving. But here's where it gets interesting. The Sun Belt isn't overbuilt. It's uneven. You look at metro-wide rent data and it looks fine. But zoom in? Sharp divide. Some neighborhoods are crushing it. Others are struggling. The investors who are reading the headline numbers and thinking everything's fine are missing the actual play. And in New York, something wild is happening. Nearly a quarter of all Manhattan office relocations over the past three years landed in one submarket. Penn Station area. And here's the kicker. Most of those companies didn't downsize. They upsized. They moved to bigger footprints. Companies aren't shrinking. They're relocating to places where they can actually operate. Where the infrastructure makes sense. So the pattern is clear. Apartment supply is tightening. Capital is flowing to data centers. Office is consolidating in the right locations. The winners are the ones who understand where the actual demand is.

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Blackstone just hit 1.3 trillion in assets under management. Data centers carried the entire quarter. That's not a coincidence. That's a signal. The industry is being forced to rethink operations, strategy, and long-term survival. Technology adoption is accelerating. The Sun Belt isn't overbuilt. It's uneven. Metro-wide rent data is masking a sharp divide, and investors reading only the headline numbers are missing the actual play. Charlotte just climbed to number five in national CRE investment rankings. That's a city that wasn't even on the radar three years ago. Tampa Bay office vacancy just hit a four-year low. The office sector is stabilizing, but not everywhere. Not evenly. Land pipeline is shrinking. 24 percent drop in land listings nationwide. That's reshaping development economics. Headquarters are relocating. Intrametro moves. Cost efficiency. Hybrid work reshaping where companies actually want to be. So what's the pattern? Data centers are booming. Office is stabilizing in the right markets. Land is getting scarce. Capital is getting selective. The operators who understand this moment, who can read the data and move fast, they're going to dominate.

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Class A apartments are facing oversupply. Class C renters are getting squeezed. But Class B assets are quietly delivering the most stability. That's where the smart money is sitting. Florida is building more storage than any state in America. 55 million square feet of new storage coming online in 2026. The market is finally building like it actually learned something from the last boom. That's discipline. That's operators who understand cycles. Meanwhile, in New York, pension funds are pouring 4 billion dollars into affordable housing. Development, preservation, office-to-residential conversions. That's institutional capital moving. The market is bifurcating. Class A is struggling. Class C is under pressure. Class B is winning. Storage is disciplined. Affordable housing is getting capital. The operators who understand this moment, who are positioned in the right assets, they're going to dominate.

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In this special promotional episode, Adam explains why ChatGPT and Claude Native just don't cut it for serious operators who need to actually do things, not just talk about them. The speed difference is real. The privacy guarantees are contractual. And the multi-model flexibility means you're never locked into a single vendor.

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Denver and D.C. assets at prices that would have been unthinkable a decade ago. New York is converting its way through the problem. David Werner is picking up older Manhattan office buildings at steep discounts, his latest Hell's Kitchen deal closing at roughly a third of its 2018 price. One Whitehall Street just went into contract for just over $100 million for a rental conversion. 55 Broad Street saw a $500 million recapitalization with institutional capital stepping in. But not everyone's playing the conversion game. Investors like Igal Namdar just dropped $280 million on 250 West 57th Street with no conversion thesis. Just a bet that today's pricing leaves enough room for upside regardless of use. Two different playbooks. Same market moment.

Chicago and L.A. are the deepest in the hole. South Florida is sitting it out, waiting for better visibility on rates. The market is in a moment of transition. Price discovery is happening. Deals that were frozen for years are finally moving. And if you've been in commercial real estate and capital raising for any amount of time, you know there used to be pivotal events. Industry gatherings where relationships compounded and deals got done. A lot of those events are gone now. Sunsetted. Minimized. There's a vacuum. That's exactly why C.R.E.I.C. matters right now. This is the new anchor event for people who no longer have one. And the people who move first on sponsorships and VIP tickets? They're going to be the ones positioned to capitalize on what's happening.

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Simultaneously, tenants signed 120 million square feet of new leases - a 25% jump over Q1 2025 and the highest single quarter since mid-2018. This episode breaks down the paradox. The leasing surge wasn't driven by blockbuster deals but by an unusually high number of smaller transactions. Average new lease sizes remain 15% below pre-pandemic norms. Tenants are taking less space, committing to shorter terms, and moving into spec suites. This is flight to quality playing out in real time. Financial services firms are propping up stronger markets. Charlotte and New York both posted leasing volumes above pre-2020 averages. San Francisco is getting a lift from AI-driven tech leasing. But the ceiling is coming into view. Return-to-office movement may be approaching its peak. Job growth remains tepid. Rising energy costs are creating demand-side headwinds. For owners of high-quality, amenitized products in the right markets - Charlotte, New York, San Francisco, Orange County, Dallas - the demand signal is real. For everyone else, rising vacancy and expiring leases are still the story.

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Cameron Iuvancigh from Thunder Bay, Ontario - working with TribeVest, strategic relationships with fund managers across the country, and his off-grid island project Superior Island. Vanessa Haynes from Tempe, Arizona - founder of Greattly, 15 years of executive marketing management, daughter of Pro Football Hall of Famer Mike Haynes, and founder of Greattly Gives nonprofit. Adam Carswell from Painesville, Ohio - architect of the capital-raising ecosystem, built RaiseMasters from zero to ten million dollars in 31 months, hosted over 1,000 interviews, and the Global Capital Connector. Together, they're creating a goldmine.

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This deal is part of a massive national trend. At the start of 2026, 90,300 apartments are under construction through office conversions, a 28% increase year-over-year and 291% increase since 2022. Office conversions now represent 47% of all adaptive reuse projects. NYC leads with 16,400 units in pipeline. Washington D.C., Chicago, Los Angeles, Dallas, Philadelphia, and Denver are all converting office to residential. National office vacancy is 17.6%, with eight top-25 markets above 20%. Austin at 24.6%, San Francisco at 24.2%.

Multifamily vacancy is 4.8% vs office at 19%. Multifamily rents up 21.3% since 2020, office rents up only 1.4%. Over 81 million sq ft of office space in conversion pipeline, 75% planned for multifamily. Fewer than 20% of office properties suit residential conversion. Conversions cost 20-30% less than new construction. RXR converting 1.1M sq ft into 1,250 units. Broad Street Development recapped another conversion for $175M. This is where institutional capital is flowing. This is the biggest real estate transition in America.

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This episode breaks down what the numbers actually mean:

• On-time payments at 83.7%, up 135 basis points from the September 2025 low
• Full-payment rate at 95.8%, the highest since August 2025
• Late payments still above 10%, but the three-month moving average is trending down
• Year-over-year comparisons still negative (31 consecutive months), but the gap is narrowing
• Western and Mountain states leading: South Dakota (97.2%), New Hampshire (94%), Utah (94%), Alaska (93.5%)
• 2-4 family rentals outperforming single-family and larger multifamily
• Macro tailwinds: GDP at 2.2%, wages outpacing inflation, steady employment

The takeaway: This is stabilization, not a victory lap. The worst of the payment squeeze appears to be behind us, but we're not back to normal. It's a grind, not a snap back.

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This episode breaks down why this deal matters:

• Why institutional capital is shifting away from commoditized markets toward resort and lifestyle destinations
• The Stockman: 9 stories, 59 guest rooms, 95 private residences, ski-in/ski-out access, butler service
• Why hybrid deals with multiple revenue streams (hotel, residential sales, management fees) are attracting serious capital
• Steamboat Springs as a proven destination market with consistent high-net-worth demand
• What this signals for operators still chasing oversupplied Sun Belt multifamily
• Why lifestyle and resort destinations are getting institutional attention right now

The Stockman is not an outlier. It's a signal of where the market is heading.

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National multifamily rent growth slowed to 1.2% year-over-year, down from 1.4% in January. Annualized monthly growth is sitting at 0.2%.

But context is the difference between panicking and positioning.

In this episode, we break down:

• Rents have increased for 32 straight months with zero national declines
• 86.6% of metros still posting positive YoY growth
• Florida and Texas struggling under oversupply: North Port (-5.3%), Cape Coral (-5.0%), Austin still 18.2% below its 2022 peak
• National vacancy hit 7.3% in December
• Virginia Beach (+5.9%), San Francisco (+5.9%), and Chicago (+5.4%) leading the other side of the split
• Northeast projected at 4-5% annual rent growth; Midwest on a 3-4.5% path
• Sun Belt looking at 1-2% at best until supply is absorbed
• Yardi Matrix projecting 450,000 deliveries in 2026, a 24% drop from 595,000 in 2025
• 2027 deliveries dropping further to ~416,000
• New construction starts for rental housing down 70% from peak
• Yardi forecasting national rent growth to hit 2% by 2027
• Why disciplined operators buying now, at the bottom of the rent growth cycle, will look like geniuses 18 months from now

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In this episode, we break down:

• San Jose: Highest AI talent concentration in the country (6x national average), $216K average AI salary
• New York City: 15,000+ new AI job listings, $151K average salary, Harvey AI expanding in Manhattan
• Seattle: AI roles nearly 3x the national average, $170K average pay, Microsoft/Amazon/startups driving office absorption
• Dallas: The dark horse with $128K average salary, 316 coworking spaces, solid fiber coverage, and a cost of living that makes scaling affordable
• CBRE projecting more high-profile AI leasing deals through 2026
• OpenAI expanding in San Francisco's Mission Bay
• The office market bifurcation: AI-rich metros thriving while traditional markets struggle
• Data centers as the dominant asset class: $600B+ in cloud company capex projected for 2026
• Moody's projecting $3 trillion in global data center spending over five years
• 100 GW of new capacity by 2030 = $1.2 trillion in real estate asset value creation
• Data centers outbidding home builders for land in major U.S. markets

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Founded by Zach Haptonstall out of Phoenix, Arizona, Rise48 Equity is one of the most disciplined multifamily operators in the country. From a lower middle class upbringing to building a vertically integrated real estate company with over 11,000 units, 350 W2 employees, and a track record that speaks for itself.

In this episode, we break down:

• Zach's journey from undersized offensive lineman to healthcare marketing director to full-time real estate operator
• Quitting a $200K+ career with $300K in savings and making zero dollars for three years
• How Rise 48 went from 6 deals ($60M) to 32 deals ($1.3B) in 24 months
• Full vertical integration: Rise 48 Communities (property management) and Rise 48 Construction
• Controlling the entire supply chain with fixed pricing on materials and labor sourced wholesale from overseas manufacturers
• Never missing a debt payment, never defaulting, never losing investor capital
• Playing "grim reaper" by acquiring over a dozen distressed deals at loan amounts, wiping out seller equity
• Expanding from Phoenix to Dallas (2023) and North Carolina (2024)
• Shutting down two profitable businesses (HVAC company with $3.5M revenue/35% margins and third-party management) on January 1, 2026 to maintain laser focus
• Going all in on AI with an internal AI committee, daily standups, and building a proprietary operating system using Claude Code
• Automating 4,000 monthly distribution payments in two days (saving $100K and six months of development)
• Pivoting to operational value-add: bulk cable contracts, carports, valet trash to drive NOI
• Zach's market outlook: 12-month bottom window, new supply absorbed by late 2026/early 2027, significant housing shortage ahead, and tailwinds for operators who bought at 30-50% discounts

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CREIC | Commercial Real Estate Investment Conference
Miami | November 6-7, 2026
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Private credit was the institutional darling for two years running. High yields. Massive inflows. But the cracks are showing. A live dispute between Western Alliance and Jefferies over a $337M loan tied to bankrupt First Brands is exposing just how fragile the space has become. Banks hold roughly $300B in private credit exposure through opaque SPV structures and fund financing channels. When one blows up, nobody knows where the shrapnel lands.

Meanwhile, commercial real estate values remain approximately 22% below their 2022 peak, creating a compelling entry point as capital begins rotating back into real assets. Blackstone's BREIT just posted its strongest inflows since 2022. The smart money isn't guessing. It's moving.

In this episode, we break down:

• Why private credit's high-yield appeal is being recalibrated against liquidity and transparency risks
• The Western Alliance vs. Jefferies dispute and what it signals about bank exposure to private credit
• $300B in opaque bank exposure through SPVs and fund financing
• Non-traded REIT inflows rebounding after dropping from $33.2B (2022) to $5.7B (2025)
• Blackstone's BREIT posting its strongest inflows since 2022
• CRE values sitting 22% below 2022 peak as an entry point
• U.S. equity REITs tripling capital raising in February
• Harbor Group International closing a $562M, 11-asset multifamily acquisition
• Freddie Mac's Small Balance Loan program anchoring multifamily financing
• Executive orders targeting housing regulation cuts
• Rent cuts in a quarter of U.S. apartment markets, led by Florida metros
• Bank of America leasing the full office tower at One Bryant Park
• OpenAI expanding with another Mission Bay lease in San Francisco
• Electrified industrial outdoor storage emerging as a niche asset class
• A $200M data center factory coming to Brighton, Colorado

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CREIC | Commercial Real Estate Investment Conference
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In this episode, we break down:

• Why Blackstone is shedding legacy assets and what it signals for the broader CRE market
• Where institutional capital is flowing right now (industrial deal activity is only 11% below pre-pandemic levels)
• Clarion Partners' $412M acquisition of The Brickyard logistics site in LA
• The office market reality: trophy assets move, everything else struggles
• Deals over $100M increasing year over year despite declining total volume
• The federal government buying warehouses (not leasing) for ICE detention centers
• Sale-leaseback resurgence: $14B fueled by M&A activity
• Public Storage acquiring National Storage Affiliates in an all-stock deal
• Jay Parsons' 2026 apartment rent outlook
• Industrial bulk occupancies jumping 25%
• Office traffic posting its strongest February since 2020
• Bank of America strategist drawing pre-2008 parallels
• Rising five-year inflation expectations driven by energy prices and geopolitical tensions

Episode Sponsor: Rise48 Equity
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CREIC | Commercial Real Estate Investment Conference
Miami | November 6-7, 2026
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creicmiami.com - go check it out right now.

For twelve episodes, we've been telling you the room is being built. Now it has a home. The event. The vision. The RSVP. It's all in one place.

Adam, Cam, and the team are taking an approach nobody has ever seen in commercial real estate. They're not building another conference. They're creating an experience and delivering more value than this niche has ever seen at a single event.

Here's the bold claim: There will be more capital at CREIC ready to deploy than all of the major events usually on the North American commercial real estate circuit. And in just the last five days, major equity has confirmed it will be in the room.

This isn't an event where you sit in the stands and wave pom poms. This is where deals get done.

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CREIC — November 6-7, 2026 | Miami, FL

500 seats. Spots are limited. Move fast.

The first three episodes of The CREIC Podcast laid the foundation for everything that's followed. Today, we walk through all three and explain why they still matter eleven episodes later.

Episode 1: The Room Is Being Built
The origin story. The conference circuit is falling apart. Adam Carswell and Cameron Iuvancigh noticed, and instead of complaining, they decided to build the room themselves. That's how CREIC was born.

Episode 2: Why 500 Is Just the Beginning
500 isn't a cap. It's year one. The floor, not the ceiling. Modeled after a resource investment conference that started small and became one of the biggest gatherings in its industry. Same playbook. Applied to commercial real estate.

Episode 3: The Miami Factor
Why Miami? $16 billion in CRE sales in 2025. A 35% surge in investment sales. CBRE's #2 target city for CRE investment. Class A rents in Brickell pushing $73/sq ft. 127 companies relocated to Miami-Dade since 2020. Miami isn't random. It's strategic.

Plus: Breaking News
This weekend, Adam and Cam worked some network magic. Very serious institutional capital is heading to the room in November. Not angel money. Not friends and family rounds. The kind of capital that moves the needle on real deals. More details coming soon.

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CREIC — November 6-7, 2026 | Miami, FL
500 seats. Spots are limited. Move fast.

Featured in this episode:

• Kyle Swafford — Swafford Law Firm. Syndication attorney specializing in fund structuring, SEC compliance, and legal infrastructure for operators nationwide.
• Rachel Griffith — Senior Vice President at King Operating (Dallas). 25+ years in leadership, 15 years in Africa, now leading partner relations and capital development for a fourth-generation oil and gas company focused on Texas Permian Basin projects.
• Bryan Escudero — President & CEO of First Gen Foundations (Miami-based). Educating and empowering first-generation investors through multifamily in secondary markets like Columbus, Ohio.

Three lanes. One room. This is what we mean when we say CREIC is being built differently.

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Miami. November 6-7, 2026. 500 seats. The room is filling up.

In this episode, we break down Atlanta's surprising multifamily turnaround and what's driving the shift:

• 4.1% projected rent growth in 2026 — ranking #2 among major U.S. metros
• 8,400 fewer units delivering in 2026 vs. 2025
• Vacancy tightening to 5.2% — the lowest since the post-pandemic recovery
• Lowest apartment pricing among major metros last year
• Hot submarkets: Cumberland, Midtown, Gwinnett County, Clayton County
• 19,000 jobs projected to be added in 2026

Plus Quick Hits:

• CRE CLO issuance picking back up
• Institutional investors preparing to deploy capital
• Phoenix ranked #1 for industrial investment in 2025
• Chicago's 2.8M SF Aon Center sent back to special servicing

🎟️ RSVP (Free General Admission — Limited to 500):
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CREIC — November 6-7, 2026 | Miami, FL

500 High Achievers. One Room.

This episode breaks down five newly confirmed CREIC attendees spanning multifamily operations, self-storage, institutional capital formation, ultra-luxury development, and energy infrastructure - all converging in Miami this November.

Featured in this episode:

• Sandhya Seshadri — Founder, Engineered Capital | 3,000+ multifamily doors | $200M in assets | Dallas-Fort Worth
• Paul Bennett — President, Triple A Storage | 90 full-cycle deals | ~20% avg returns | 32 years in CRE
• Jeremy Dyer — VP of Capital Formation, Rise48 Equity | $2.4B in transactions | $750M passive equity | Phoenix
• Samuel Coon — Four Seasons Private Residences Lake Austin | 210 acres | $4.6M–$50M residences
• Courtney Moeller — Fund Manager, Iron Horse Fund I | Navy veteran | $100M fund | 100+ wells drilled

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CREIC - November 6-7, 2026 | Miami, FL

500 High Achievers. One Room.

In this episode, we break down why the post is spreading, what it actually says, and why the commercial real estate world can't stop talking about it.

• The Diagnosis — The conference circuit isn't tired. It's dead. Same recycled panels. Same sponsors buying stage time. Adam and Cameron said: "If no one's going to build the room, we will."
• The Paradox — Free general admission. Capped at 500. It's like a Michelin-star restaurant that doesn't charge for dinner but only serves 500 people a year. You don't argue about the menu. You figure out how to be one of the 500.
• The Weight of the Room — Joe Fairless ($2.7B AUM). Michael J. Flight (Godfather of Blockchain Real Estate). Sunrise Capital ($400M AUM, 33 consecutive quarters of distributions). Petr Krovina (Chief of Staff of Liberland). When a sovereign nation's Chief of Staff flies in, it's not another panel about duplexes.
• The Architecture — Problem. Villain. Heroes. Invitation. This post isn't built like a flyer. It's built like a manifesto. And people share missions faster than they share marketing.

Read the LinkedIn post: Adam Carswell on LinkedIn

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CREIC. November 6-7, 2026. Miami. 500 serious operators. One room.

In this episode, we break down the current state of commercial real estate across six key sectors with real numbers, real pitfalls, and real opportunities:

• Multifamily — Supply wave receding. Austin permits down 97%. Assets trading at 20% discounts. Fannie/Freddie with $176B ready to deploy.
• Self-Storage — REITs up 17% YTD. Climate-controlled units commanding 50-80% premiums. AI pricing tools driving 5-8% revenue boosts.
• Mobile Home Parks — 95%+ occupancy. Only 38% of US households can afford a traditional home. Private equity rent hikes triggering regulatory backlash.
• Single Family Rental — Occupancy above 95% since 2018. 14.6M SFR households. Insurance and tax increases eating real returns.
• Short-Term Rentals — 84,000 new listings. Occupancy down 8.6%. ADRs up 6% YoY. Regulations tightening coast to coast.
• Office — Vacancy 19-23% nationally. CMBS delinquencies past 2008 levels. $875B in CRE loans maturing in 2026. Conversion plays emerging.

Data sourced from Grok, X, CBRE, Deloitte, Principal, MetLife, BiggerPockets, and more. We're AI. Use this as a starting point, not a finish line.

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In this episode, we break down five more confirmed names heading to the Commercial Real Estate Investment Conference, November 6-7 in Miami:

• Gary Lipsky — CEO, Break of Day Capital. 3,000+ units. $300M+ in transaction value. 90% of his net worth in his own deals.
• Alan Pavlosky — Legacy All Stars Podcast. 30 years with pro athletes, executives, and public figures.
• Jonny Cattani & Sunrise Capital Investors — $400M AUM. 33 consecutive quarters of distributions. 1,000+ accredited investors served.
• Petr Krovina — Chief of Staff, Free Republic of Liberland. Blockchain governance. Bitcoin as legal tender. Represented at Davos.
• Ben Malech — Associate, Quantum Capital Partners. $22.65M permanent loan arranged. Adam's former mentee at Tulane.

Free general admission. Limited to 500.

RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/commercial-real-estate-investment-conference-miami-nov-6-7-tickets-1983844176335

Joe Fairless — Co-founder of Ashcroft Capital. $2.7 billion in assets under management. Over 10,000 multifamily units. Left Madison Avenue in 2012, raised $843K from 12 people, and never stopped. Founded the Best Ever CRE Show — 3,700+ episodes and counting.

Mathew Owens — OCG Properties, Manhattan Beach, CA. CPA who started flipping in 2006 and went full-time real estate. Raised over $150 million in private investor capital. 1,500+ units owned. 700+ completed projects over 10+ years. Zero investor losses. First official CREIC sponsor.

Tait Duryea — Third-generation airline captain. 12,000+ flight hours. Founded Turbine Capital in April 2020 when flights were grounded. Built a real estate PE firm for pilots. First year: raised $2.5M, placed $5.38M with operators.

Wayne Courreges III — U.S. Marine Corps Corporal. Bought his first property at 19 while active duty. 16 years at CBRE. MBA from UNC. Founded CREI Partners. $60M portfolio in multifamily and industrial outdoor storage.

Scott Kidd — 20+ years as a professional yacht captain. Started with $20 and a plane ticket. Now a multifamily syndicator in Florida. Hosts the Yacht Captain Investor podcast.

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Spots are filling fast. Once this room is full, it's full.

Before Airbnb had ten listings in the entire city of Miami, Laz was already stacking reservations.

He started selling Bentleys, Rolls-Royces, and Bugattis. Best year? $400K. Then he bet everything on a cigar lounge and lost $2.5 million. House gone. Savings gone.

All he had left was a real estate license and the audacity to knock on doors in Little Haiti when everyone else called it the ghetto.

He rented every house on the block. Put them all on Airbnb. Bought a tiny house for $1,500 off Facebook Marketplace and turned it into a destination. Built systems that became the regulatory blueprint for short-term rentals in the entire state of Florida.

Made $500K in two days selling mentorships. Highest ticket? $22,000. And unlike the gurus who never owned a single listing... Laz had receipts.

Last deal? Turned a $500K property into a $2M exit in seven months.

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Spots are filling fast. Once this room is full, it's full.

Senate Eskridge – Twin Falls, Idaho. 847+ units. $15M raised. Runs the Magic Valley Real Estate Investors Meetup and helps organize the Idaho Real Estate Conference.

Fletcher Wheaton – Cabo San Lucas. Co-founder of the Cabo Real Estate Summit. Hosts the "Real Estate Without Borders" podcast.

Marco Pfeiffer – Managing Principal at Opportunistic Capital Group. ~40 doors across Alabama and Florida. Quit his W-2 in 2020.

Michael Roberts – JETVEND (jets.aero), Ocala, FL. Aircraft broker serving real estate developers, construction firms, hospitals, casinos, and sports teams.

Chris Larsen – Founder of Next Level Income, Asheville, NC. $1.5B+ in acquisitions. All-American cyclist. Author of "Next-Level Income."

Logan Freeman – Midwest CRE Advisors, Kansas City. AI-driven analytics. Former Oakland Raiders undrafted free agent. $350M+ in transactions. "Mr. Kansas City."

This is what happens when you build a room the right way. The right people show up.

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462 spots remaining. When they're gone, they're gone.

Michael J. Flight – 34 years in commercial real estate, $600M+ in transactions, CEO of Liberty Real Estate Fund, and Forbes' "Godfather of Blockchain Real Estate." Rumor has it he made CREIC history as the first-ever VIP ticket buyer. Legend status.

M.C. Laubscher – The Cash Flow Ninja. 849+ podcast episodes downloaded in 180 countries. His guest list includes Robert Kiyosaki, Grant Cardone, Patrick Bet-David, Jim Rogers, Doug Casey, and Anthony Pompliano. Forbes Finance Council member. Confirmed speaker at CREIC Miami with exclusive content he's preparing specifically for this room.

This is what happens when you build a room the right way. The right people show up.

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500 spots. When they're gone, they're gone.

But this isn't just vibes and palm trees. Miami has quietly become one of the most important commercial real estate markets in the country. And CREIC is planting its flag right in the middle of it.

The Numbers

• South Florida posted $16 billion in commercial real estate sales in 2025 — highest since 2017
• Investment sales surged 35% year-over-year
• CBRE ranked Miami the #2 target city for CRE investment, with 70% of investors planning to acquire more
• Office vacancy in Miami-Dade dropped 70 basis points — one of the best improvements in the country
• Class A rents in Brickell pushing $73/sq ft, up over 50% since 2020
• 127 companies relocated to Miami-Dade since 2020, occupying 2.2 million square feet

This isn't a beach town with some office buildings. This is an institutional-grade market that happens to have incredible weather.

The Cardone Effect

Love him or hate him, Grant Cardone put Miami on the map for commercial real estate. $5 billion AUM. 10X Corporate Centre in North Miami. Real Estate Summits drawing thousands. He didn't just invest in Miami — he branded it. And who knows, maybe Mr. 10X himself will be in the room at CREIC.

What's Next

The first three episodes were the foundation. Origin. Vision. City. Now the podcast pivots into what's actually moving in commercial real estate — capital raising, fund structures, LP psychology, deal flow, and the trends shaping the market heading into 2026 and beyond.

Commercial Real Estate Investment Conference
📍 Miami, FL
📅 November 6-7, 2026
👥 500 high achievers. Free general admission. 50 VIP spots.

🎟️ RSVP FREE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1983844176335

The room is being built. Tell your wife to start packing.

500 isn't a cap. It's the foundation. Year one. The floor, not the ceiling.

CREIC is modeled after what a good friend has built in a completely different sector - a resource investment conference that started in a room and grew into one of the biggest gatherings in its entire industry. Same playbook, applied to commercial real estate.

The first 500 people set the DNA. Fund managers. Operators. Capital raisers. LPs who actually deploy. When this grows to 5,000+, the people in the room for year one are the ones who shaped the culture.

Commercial Real Estate Investment Conference
📍 Miami, FL
📅 November 6-7, 2026
👥 500 high achievers. Year one. The easiest it'll ever be to get in.

Free general admission. 50 VIP spots. When they're gone, they're gone.

🎟️ RSVP FREE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1983844176335

Get in while the getting in is easy. Because next year, you're going to wish you did.

Two guys noticed it: Adam Carswell and Cameron Iuvancigh. They've been in these rooms for years. They watched the quality nosedive. Instead of complaining about it, they decided to build the room themselves.

That's how CREIC Miami was born.

Commercial Real Estate Investment Conference
📍 Miami, FL
📅 November 6-7, 2026
👥 500 high achievers. Fund managers. Operators. Capital raisers. LPs who actually deploy.

World-class speakers who've done the thing they're talking about. An exhibition hall designed for real conversations and serious deal flow. Free general admission. 50 VIP spots. When they're gone, they're gone.

🎟️ RSVP FREE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1983844176335

If you're going to be in one room this year, make it this one.