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By William Procida, Procida Funding & Advisors
- Oct 10, 2018
A time for pause – and urgency
Our country’s major cities are being overbuilt with too many high-rise residential condos and rentals at prices and absorption rates that can’t be sustained, while the urban and suburban affordable market is woefully underserved.
The U.S. commercial real estate market has a classic oversupply issue driven by too much money chasing the same asset classes in the same place at the same time. It is very similar to skiing beautiful, fresh-powdered ski trails in the morning. In t

By Brenner Green, Real Property Capital, Inc.
- Oct 9, 2018
Borrower Beware
What is now a long time ago, in the depths of the great recession, many articles were written about how the “Shadow Banking” (read unregulated private lending) sector was going to provide liquidity to markets, real estate and otherwise, when the commercial banks were unable to do so as a result of their tattered balance sheets, and I suppose to fill some of the gap for the 297 banks that failed in 2009 and 2010(1)
In the author’s view this prophecy never really came home to

By Stephen E. Fauer, ESA Environmental Consultants
- Oct 9, 2018
Opportunity Zone Strategies for
Realtors, Developers and Investors
On rare occasions, a federal program comes along that offers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reap substantial rewards with a little forward-thinking strategy. The Opportunity Zone Program (OZP), part of the federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, will be a game changer for savvy realtors, developers, and individuals with appreciated assets looking to reinvest.
To start, OZP investment monies must be derived from the sale of appreciated assets and, unlike a 1031 exchange,
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