Probably exposed to more deals, more real estate asset classes, more sponsors, and more investors than anyone else in the commercial real estate industry, hearing from my podcast guest today, Ian Formigle, Chief Investment Officer at CrowdStreet, is going to be a revelation in what is really happening in the industry today.
You're going to learn about the state of the industry, how interest rates are impacting values, investor sentiment, and where we're headed in 2023.
Fasten your seatbelts. We cover a lot of ground in this week's overview of the state of the commercial industry today.
Learn from this week's podcast guest, Harold Hofer, how his new crowdfunding platform, Elevate.money, is geared to attracting accredited and non-accredited investors alike. Harold is no stranger to building successful crowdfunding platforms. In a prior life, he was a co-founder of the Rich Uncles platform and featured in my book, Leaders of the Crowd, as one of the earlier adopters of crowdfunding to democratize real estate investing for all.
Learn from Harold the secrets of his success, why he focuses on the millennial generation and learn how Tik-Tok has become a force for good in commercial real estate capital formation.
Podcast guest this week is Matt Belcher, CEO and co-founder of Caltier, a new entrant to the real estate crowdfunding platform, and one of those that caters to both accredited and non-accredited investors.
Caltier uses Regulation A+ for its fund, another of the 2012 JOBS Act innovations, that are sometimes also known as mini-IPOs. The regulation brings with it higher disclosure requirements than the usual, accredited investor only Regulation D, and presents some unique opportunities for crowdfunding platforms like Caltier. Finding deals they both co-invest in as well as own directly Caltier provides real estate investment access to everyone with just a $500 minimum investment.
Learn more in this podcast and forgive Matt his strange, foreign accent. He can't help it.
My podcast guest today, Ryan Windley is a teacher/trainer by trade and real estate investor, who has hacked the Groundfloor real estate crowdfunding platform to get outsized returns relative to the risk he takes.
Groundfloor makes loans to fix and flippers and grades the quality of the loans it makes, offering higher returns for what it considers relatively riskier 'Class D' loans, and lower returns on lower risk deals that it classifies as Class A.
In short, Groundfloor have developed a risk-return model for investors that Ryan figures he's beaten with his own system - and having yielded around an 11% return over three years on loans with risk profiles that should be yielding no more than 7%, well, it looks like he's on to something.
Listen to the podcast and sign up to the GowerCrowd newsletter here: https://gowercrowd.com/subscribeCheck to find out exactly how he does it.
My podcast guest today, Joel Friedland co-founder of Brit Properties, is one of the country's leading experts on Class B and C industrial properties. Industrial real estate has consistently outperformed all other real estate asset classes and Joel's approach, which includes taking on very low levels of debt, have provided him and his investors with steady income over the years and through multiple real estate cycles, while protecting the downside from excessive risk.
Learn from Joel how he has built his substantial industrial real estate portfolio, why it has not yet been impacted by current market conditions, and how he preserves his investors' capital while keeping an eye on income and growth.
If you are looking for a safe haven during troubled economic times, Class B and C industrial real estate should be on your radar and Joel Friedland is the perfect person to explain the ins and outs.