What is a Power Niche?

One of the most important things for any real estate business and, indeed, any business is a successful marketing program.  Of course in our hearts we want to believe that if we just do something great then everyone will figure…

What is Up with China? Effect on the Real Estate Deals? News from the Real Estate Front in NYC

My law firm is in NYC handling real estate transactions in the US that originate from counterparties based all over the world.  A bunch of these transactions depend on money coming in from China (debt or equity or other structure). …

Failure in Business is (Mathematically) A Lot More Likely Than You Think

Sometimes someone tells you something that is so ridiculously obvious but so dramatic to everything you have ever thought about, that it kind of shocks the heck out of you.  So here is something that just sent me for a…

A Tectonic Shift is Happening in the Real Estate World

As you may have heard by now, real estate is set to become a separate asset class on the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS) and the S&P 500, separating it from the Financials Sector.  Notably mortgage REIT’s will be left…