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Latest Episodes

Episode 023 – Diversity and Equality – Women in Real Estate
November 25, 2019

NYU Dean Sam Chandan together with KPMG partners Shruti Sha and Yesenia Scheker participate with me in this very relevant, timely and thought provoking conversation that will have you asking yourself “what can I do to help build the blueprint for change”

Episode 022 – Ensure the Insurance – Hold Harmless, Endorsements, Exclusions – Oops!
October 30, 2019

Matt Cotter, a Consultative Broker and Construction Insurance Specialist along with Michael Nucatola a Risk Consultant for the real estate industry lead you up and down the risk transfer totem pole. Where you land; top,

Episode 021 – Development of Affordable Housing – A Mission to Expand
September 25, 2019

Goldstein Hall law partner, Matt Hall and affordable housing developer Eli Weiss of Joy Construction discuss how the supply and demand paradigm is the overarching fundamental that supports a business model of developing regulated housing. -

Episode 020 – Multifamily Lending – Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and HUD Capital Markets
August 21, 2019

Blake Janover of Janover Ventures a Commercial Real Estate Capital Markets company and Realty Speak® host Bill Weidner talk pre and post the 2008 financial crisis while helping you count the ways you can execute the finance of new multifamily developme...

Episode 019 – World of EB-5 – Deep Dive and the Capital Stack
July 24, 2019

Attorney Min Chan, Managing Director of the Chan Law Firm and Allison Berman, Managing Director and General Counsel of Greystone’s EB-5 bring you deep into the world of the EB-5 Program - an Immigrant Investor Visa Program which provides a method for e...

Episode 018 – Land of Opportunity IS in the O-Zone – Really!
June 10, 2019

Developer Toby Moskovits and Realty Speak® host Bill Weidner navigate through the latest guidance from Treasury/IRS on the Opportunity Zone regulations with KPMG Opportunity Zone experts Phil Marra and Demetri Yatrakis.

Episode 017 – Rent in THE City – More Regulation? Yup!
April 02, 2019

On June 14th 2019, subsequent to the publication of this episode, NYS Senate Bill S6458 was enacted as the “Housing Stability and Tenant Protection act of 2019”. Much of what you will hear in this episode was passed as part of the bill in one form or ...

Episode 016 – An Affordable Footprint – Carbon That Is
February 21, 2019

Chris Parker, Founder, Giv Group in Utah joins Bill in this episode to discuss that it’s not just technology, energy efficiency and affordability that are the foundation of his multi-family development projects.

Episode 015 – Raising the Bar (bell) – Amenities in New Development
January 23, 2019

Vinnie Sunders, Matrix Fitness and Jeff Yachmetz, Slate Property group share that in these times the ultimate customer, the tenant has an expectation of experiential living that goes far past the idea that apartment living is just the cube you occupy.

Episode 014 – Gimme Shelter – Transitional Housing Part 2 – What a Story!
January 18, 2019

The Victor Rivera backstory is a raw personal history of growing up surrounded by the nefarious influences of his South Bronx neighborhood in the 1960’s. Did he succumb? Did he fall? Did he subsequently triumph?