Name: The Agency’s Mauricio Umansky talks resi market turnaround and Season 2 of Buying Beverly Hills
Uploaded: 2023-09-25T12:00:53Z
Description: Even in a downmarket, The Agency is expanding. Last year, founder Mauricio Umansky expanded the brokerage with an office in New York, then The Hamptons. Umansky chats with Deconstruct about when he sees the residential market rebounding and what to expect for Season 2 of his realty tv show Buying Beverly Hills

In Deconstruct, The Real Deal’s Isabella Farr and Suzannah Cavanaugh break down the most important ideas in real estate. We follow the money across the country to explain what investors, brokers and developers are focused on right now. This is essential listening for understanding the great, big world of real estate.

Check out earlier episodes of Deconstruct on Apple and Spotify.

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“A slow-moving trainwreck.” That's what Polpo Capital's Daniel McNamara calls the wall of maturities — the massive amount of commercial mortgage-backed securities coming due in the next year or two — on the latest ep of #TRDDeconstruct. Many are facing a triple threat: the triple whammy of higher #interestrates, lower valuations and more conservative lending. All of that is making it difficult for commercial landlords to refinance and leaving #CMBS investors at risk.

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As the market for traditional lending, through regional banks or commercial mortgage-backed securities, has dried up, more private credit lenders and financiers have hopped into the real estate space. TRD’s Deconstruct chats with Jonathon Blackwell managing partner of Arkhouse, a private equity firm focused on deals to privatize public real estate investment trusts and how they see opportunity in the private credit boom.

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Even in a downmarket, The Agency is expanding. Last year, founder Mauricio Umansky expanded the brokerage with an office in New York, then The Hamptons. Umansky chats with Deconstruct about when he sees the residential market rebounding and what to expect for Season 2 of his realty tv show Buying Beverly Hills

The Agency’s Mauricio Umansky talks resi market turnaround and Season 2 of Buying Beverly Hills

At 92 years old, Larry Silverstein, the man who redeveloped the World Trade Center site, is still shaking things up. The founder of @SilversteinProperties is spearheading a mammoth office-to-residential conversion. He's thrown his hat in the ring for the city casino bid. And he's turned a new page in his social life, embedding himself with the young new crowd that has flocked to Lower #Manhattan. 

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Season 3 of TRD’s podcast Deconstruct is coming your way! Hosted by TRD’s Isabella Farr and Suzannah Cavanaugh, this season will showcase Silverstein Properties' Larry Silverstein, FundRebel CEO Mark Drachman, Arkhouse co-managing partners Jon Blackwell and Gavriel Kahane, Related Companies' office development head Philippe Visser and more! Tune in for the season premiere, Tuesday 9/5/23, available on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you listen to your podcasts!

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Last fall, Airbnb launched its tenant-friendly #apartment venture, which allows renters to list their units with #landlord consent. The short-term rental giant pegs the service as a win-win that offers on-the-books income for tenants and perks for owners. On the latest episode of #Deconstruct, Airbnb’s global head of #realestate Jesse Stein joins the #podcast to discuss the product’s potential and shares which national landlords are already on board.

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When industry outsider Jacob Garlick placed the winning bid of $190 million on New York's iconic Flatiron Building, he told NY1 the moment had been a “lifelong dream since he was 14 years old.” Two days later he flaked on the down payment. In the newest episode of #Deconstruct, senior reporter Keith Larsen joins to discuss the man behind the botched bid and why Garlick is still gunning for the building.

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In the latest episode of #Deconstruct, TRD contributor Patrick Sisson joins the podcast to discuss the rise of chatbots like #ChatGPT and how they have presented an existential problem for the business of #brokerage. Will this new tech serve as a groundbreaking virtual assistant? Or could it undermine the broker's role completely? Tune in to learn more, and let us know how you think #AI will affect the future of real estate in the comments!

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On the latest episode of Deconstruct, TRD residential bureau chief Katherine Kallergis joins the podcast to discuss how buyers, sellers and brokers of Miami luxury real estate are responding to shifting interest rates and how the market has cooled since.

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As distress descends on commercial real estate, the newest episode or Deconstruct analyzes how past financial crises can inform how borrowers, banks and policy makers may handle this down cycle.

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For the past year, public real estate investment trusts that own or manage hotels, #multifamily or #office buildings have traded at steep discounts as investors feared rising rates would take a whack to profits and property values. On the latest episode of #Deconstruct, Ben Miller, CEO of investment platform @Fundrise, explains why amid such downturn, he has set his sights to credit.

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What goes up must come down, right? That’s one of the myths that has dogged the Sun Belt’s multifamily market for decades, says RealPage chief economist Jay Parsons on the latest episode of "Deconstruct."

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Michael Shvo joins TRD’s Isabella Farr and Suzannah Cavanaugh to discuss the capital he deployed during the pandemic, why he’s bullish on the office market in New York and San Francisco, and how he’s taking advantage of a alck of office space in Miami Beach.

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On next week’s episode of TRD’s podcast Deconstruct, Atlas Hospitality Group president Alan Reay chats about the looming distress across the hotel markets, but where investors are finding pockets of hope.

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Coming soon ... On the latest episode of 'Deconstruct,' TRD's Bay Area reporter Emily Landes chats about Twitter’s office debacles — the social media giant's mass layoffs and failure to pay rent at its SF headquarters — and explains how Twitter's moves affect San Francisco's office market at large.

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Across the nation, tenant protections have emerged as the policy du jour after two years of rising rents cemented affordability as a headline issue. Los Angeles has rolled out a patchwork of renter-friendly policies, the #WhiteHouse made a push for better regulation of the rental market and six states are eyeing reforms that would allow cities to instate their own versions of rent control. Economists say capping rents is the best way to kill affordability.

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Last week, the Federal Reserve hiked interest rates for the eighth time in less than a year, sending benchmark rates to their highest level since 2007. For a mortgage market that has seized in the wake of higher financing costs, another rate hike would seem to be bad news.

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In the wake of the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, First Republic Bank, a prominent mortgage lender in San Francisco, lost billions in deposits. But what does that mean for lending and can the bank survive? The Real Deal’s podcast Deconstruct looks at the bank’s financial health, plus the New York state budget and New York Community Bank’s earnings.

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Nearly four years after landlords challenged New York’s sweeping set of rent reforms, their suit has finally landed where they'd hoped:  the doorstep of the Supreme Court. 'Deconstruct' breaks down owners’ two-pronged approach to a rent law rollback and what drama could come from the rent guidelines board vote next month.