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Greatful to work with @VanVlissingenCo, an experienced team with a vast network of occupier and investment contacts.
We leased a high-credit tenant, renewed, and maximized profit for the owners with a direct sale.
So thankful for the opportunity to serve our clients!
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Gordon Lamphere J.D. 🏭 CRE retweeted
This is one of the wildest stats I have ever seen and completely goes against what any rational real estate investor would have expected back in the early part of this decade.
The lesson here is that nothing affects real estate prices more than supply. I’d rather invest in a stagnant market seeing no supply growth than a booming market with lots of supply growth.
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We've done office conversions in Chicagoland; Eugene Flotteron did the biggest one in U.S. history, so we asked him what everyone else gets wrong👇
Jun 10
Pulling Off the Largest Office-to-Residential Conversion In History With Eugene Flotteron - RFP 103
Talking to him, you learn that there's hidden value everywhere in the office market.
What we cover:
- How 25 Water Street became the largest completed office-to-residential conversion in the US
- Cutting courtyards, replacing facades, and adding 10 stories to make the deal pencil
- New York's 467-M tax abatement and why developers are racing its June 2026 reduction
- How City of Yes threw gasoline on the adaptive reuse market
- The studio home office: the unit type beating one-bedroom comps by $500 to $600 a month
- The amenity wars: pools, pickleball, bowling alleys, and 100,000 square feet of found space
- Eugene's conversion checklist: overbuilt FAR, light exposure, floor depth, and efficiency targets
- Which building eras have good bones and which are traps
- Why conversions are going national and what other cities must fix to compete
- Public-private partnerships and the future of urban redevelopment
If you're interested in office conversion, this podcast is a must-watch 👇
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I’m on pace today to lose a thousand YouTube subscribers.
Is it something I said?
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Jun 9
If you are drawn to high-risk, low-reward investments, NYC rent stabilized apartments may be for you.
Or you could get a high-yield savings account for similar upside but with lesser downside risk.
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If there were no consequences how would your friends, family and colleagues describe you?
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Median national home price down by 16%, driven by collapsing Sun Belt markets.
SOMETHING SOMETHING Supply-Demand
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As the Middle Class disappears from the core of America’s Cites many of the social challenges of the last few centuries will disappear.
As long as the clankers succeed.
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Two LOIs received and tours all day.
Not a bad start to the week after vacation.
Happy Monday Y’all!
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Pyongyang, North Korea built more housing last year than Los Angeles.
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The investors that think they can compete against cheaper capital.
Are the same investors who think they can time the market.
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Sales tip to the contractors who cold call me.
You’d be a lot more successful if you cold called me during business hours.
Just got a call during Sunday lunch with the family.
My wife’s response: If you ever work with them, I’ll kill both of you.
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Jun 7
Unfortunately this isn't strictly true. The Buffalo Bills' new stadium is infamously building *fewer seats* & adding more low-density corporate boxes than the 1970s stadium
Markets are good, but there's no use lying that profit maximization is always social welfare maximizing
Jun 7
Other ways to allocate Knicks tickets might be welfare improving in terms of fan enjoyment, say
The advantage of prices is that they direct resources towards making more of the scarce good. In fact, they maximize quantity
If we didn't use prices, stadiums would be a lot smaller
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You’re selling plasma for a cheese burger.
I’m growing a portfolio of mealworm farms.
We are not the same…
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West Marine’s bankruptcy isn’t just retail news.
It’s the middle class disappearing in real time.
When I grew up many middle class families had / shared a boat.
Today the money’s all at the top of the industry.
The casual retail buyer who anchored the business is gone.
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Maybe there's something wrong with me... but I care far less about politics than the average person on here.
Did commercial real estate break my brain?
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Gordon Lamphere J.D. 🏭 CRE retweeted
Jun 6
Thank you to all who fought and sacrificed in freedoms defense all those years ago. Incredible footage here. Blessed that both my uncles survived and will never forget the over 400,000 who did not come home.
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Everyone is talking about how it’s $10,000 to get into MSG for the NBA Finals. Not enough people are talking about how the Knicks publicly traded stock has outperformed pretty much everything outside of AI over the last year.
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