The Promote Podcast
Episodes
Reubens on Rye and Apollo's Divine NNNtervention
25 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we dive into the life & times of two quintessential Men with Deep Pockets: Billionaire British Brothers David & Simon Reuben have b...
Savills Gobbles Eastdil & Ray Washburne's Second Helpings
18 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we dive deep into the M&A deal that's all anyone in institutional CRE can talk about. Savills – yes Savills! – is buying Eastdil Se...
Wartime Allocators & Rialto's Double Agent
11 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we have no choice but to tackle the topic of war. The conflict with Iran continues to roil markets and CRE's biggest allocators are in sixe...
Larry's White Whale & Jamestown Puckers Up
04 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In Ep. 50 (!), we trace Larry Silverstein's odyssey with the World Trade Center redevelopment, analyzing the new blockbuster Amex deal and the insuran...
Times Square Trainwreck, Royal Renters and Blue Owl Bytes the Dust
25 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we look at the tragicomedy that is TSX Broadway, the Maefield/L&L/Fortress Times Square megadevelopment that came undone and left hundr...
Limit-Up Hotel Kamikazes & AI's Brokerage Rout
18 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we dive deep into the story of Anbang Insurance, the Chinese insurer that went on an epic US trophy real estate buying spree, but flew too ...
House of Brookfield, Wholesale Shopping and a Condo Buyout Coup
11 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we discuss the House of Brookfield’s new overlord: Connor Teskey has a modest target – double AUM to $2 trillion. We talk about the lab...
Apollo's Sister Act, ICE Age & the Doomed Tower of Power
04 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we discuss how the Chrysler Building has laid waste to the best-laid plans of so many global titans. With Tishman Speyer reportedly coming ...
A Condo Kingpin’s Next Act and Proptech Falls off the Wall
28 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we discuss second acts: Ziel Feldman has left the scandal-ridden past of his glitzy New York condo development firm HFZ Capital Group behin...
SNFing out Megadeals and Syndicator Patient Zero
21 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we discuss a redemption tour by GVA’s Alan Stalcup, Patient Zero of the Sunbelt multifamily boom/bust. He’s battling PGs, LPs and maybe...
Pinnacle's Bankruptcy Summit & Life Sci's Midlife Crisis
14 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we’re talking a glitch in the Morse code: MCR has failed to come up with the cash to consummate the take-private of Soho House, setting o...
Windy City Tailwinds & Stadium Arcadium
07 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we talk Chicago – America’s Second City is now becoming top of mind for national multifamily players. We break down 2 significant deals...
The Mayweather Whisperer: Jona Rechnitz (Rerun)
31 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We're technically off this week. BUT, Business Insider dropped a banger of a read on Floyd Mayweather's tangled financial web, and somewhere at the ce...
Bluerock's Liquid Death, Soundstage Flops and OZK Walks the Plank
24 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we talk illiquid death – the Bluerock listing debacle says so much about the mark-to-magic happening in the nontraded REIT market. We the...
Exotic Alts (w/ SomeraRoad's Ian Ross) & Taconic's Lab Leak
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we’re talking exotic alts – the far-flung corners of CRE that are starting to catch serious institutional interest. Think car washes, a...
Starchitects, Swedish Whales & an SF Hotel Heist
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we look back at the skyline-shaping impact of 2 starchitects who’ve just left us – Robert A.M. Stern and Frank Gehry – and then jump ...
Mailbag: CRE Casting Couch, Return-Immune Investing & Best Dumb-Guy Sectors
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In our special mailbag episode, co-host Will Krasne tackles your most unhinged CRE questions: who'd be the dream cast of a CRE version of Million Doll...
Sleepless in Seattle: The Martin Selig Story
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we dive deep into the maverick career of Seattle skyscraper titan Martin Selig - a true man in full who at his pomp controlled more than a ...
Sonder's Mercy Killing and the Mooch's OZ Misadventure
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we explore why more multifamily REITs are offering themselves up at the altar - there just doesn’t seem to be a real path forward for man...
Reston Peace, Senioritis & A Capstack Crisis
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we chat about 2 big events in the senior housing space: Blackstone’s fire sale of a $1.8B portfolio and the Sonida-CNL merger. It’s a p...
Blackstone Cubs, Secondaries Sizzle & Hines of Arabia
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In a world awash with capital, it’s the same names who are vacuuming up increasing shares of it: We dive into Blackstone alpha cub Chad Pike's take-...
Fugazi First Positions & Cracking Billionaires' Row
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we look at explosive allegations of mortgage fraud that have caught up 2 prominent regional banks. Zions and Western Alliance woes stemming...
The Skyscraper That Broke America
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we have a special episode diving deep into the skyscraper that encapsulates our political and financial age: 666 Fifth Avenue. Now known as...
Fathers, Sons & Fast Fashion Tax Shields
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we asked the taboo question about New York office to residential conversions. Do the numbers work? There's been enough distress from some o...
SF Apartment Therapy & the Short King of Data Centers
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we discuss an intriguing deal in the data-center space – TeraWulf is raising $3B in debt to build data centers for Google, in an intertwi...
Brookfield's $10B YES! & RXR's OPM Masterclass
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we dive into Brookfield's $10B mega-acquisition of manufactured-home player YES! Communities, and how it's emblematic of the next frontier ...
Sobrato's Silicon Sizzle & Macklowe Unfurled
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we take a closer look at one of the biggest winners from Nvidia's Silicon Valley real estate rampage: The Sobrato Organization amassed a 12...
Ross takes his talents to [West Palm] Beach & Barnett Prefs Up
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Like a lot of older guys, Steve Ross moved to Florida. Unlike them, however, the billionaire real estate developer didn't go there to retire, but inst...
Tupac vs Biggie, CRE Edition
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, it's Tupac vs Biggie, commercial real estate edition: We dive into a deal on each coast that brings together all the things that we think m...
Mormon Money & Cardone Waterfalls
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we’re talking the Mormon real estate playbook – how the LDS church built a serious property portfolio and also run it like serious peop...
Soho House Postgame And Billion-Dollar Capstacks
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We break down the puzzling $2.7B take-private of Soho House – what do Apollo, MCR, Ron Burkle and Ashton Kutcher think they can pull off by revitali...
Shvo Business & Multifamily's Antitrust Agita
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We dive into the singular life and multiple dramas of real estate impresario Michael Shvo, the luxury resi broker turned developer who went on one of ...
Talking Tycoons: Tom Cousins & Jacob Chetrit
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we break down the outsized life & career of seminal Atlanta developer Tom Cousins: skyline-shaper, quail hunter, Ted Turner lender, Buf...
Megafunds Geezer-Chasing & A Miami Kingpin's Epic Aventura
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we dive into how private credit mega-managers such as Blackstone, KKR & Blue Owl have been setting the stage for a potentially huge new...
How to De-Risk a Megadeal: Related's Hudson Yards Masterclass
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this special episode of The Promote Podcast, we dive deep into Related Companies' de-risking playbook at its Hudson Yards megaproject. How they're ...
JPM's Roosevelt Run & Cortland's PE Courtship
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we discuss JPMorgan's age of empires, its play for the Roosevelt Hotel as part of a potentially 7 million square foot campus in the heart o...
Attack of the Nepo Babies & A Manhattan Skyscraper Heist
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we discuss the great changing of the guard at real estate dynasties – the 2nd and 3rd gens are taking the helm of some of the industry's ...
Mamdani Fear Factor & Hyatt's Friends with Benefits
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We break down CRE's fear & loathing stemming from Zohran Mamdani’s improbable win in the New York City mayoral primary. Players have pulled the ...
Carlyle Takes the Stairs, Drillman's Great Escape & the LVMH-Kering War
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we dive into Carlyle's attempt to stitch together an empire of Brooklyn walk-ups and how it illustrates the REPE giant's playbook. We then ...
Deconstructing Data Center Megadeals with DigitalBridge's Marc Ganzi
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, data center pioneer and DigitalBridge CEO Marc Ganzi walks Will & Hiten through 2 defining transactions in the space: The $11B take-pri...
Sixth Street's AUM Gobbling & SF's Basis Bets
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Will & Hiten dive deep into the movement of the moment: AUM gobbling ™️ We break down the Sixth Street/L+M transaction, and how all...
A Syndicator Lending Safari with Benefit Street's Mike Comparato
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Hiten & Will are joined by Benefit Street Partners' Michael Comparato, who gives us an insider's look into the wild world of lending to...
A Tale of Two Asset Classes: NYC Rent-Stabilized Carnage & Data Center Mania
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we break down two asset classes on extreme ends of the fortune spectrum: The first, NYC rent-stabilized multifamily, which is facing a tida...
The Mother of all Tax Loopholes & Zeckendorf Bros. Downtown Funk
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we dive deep into one of the most extraordinary tax loopholes that the CRE market has ever witnessed: the Traveling HFC, a Texas property-t...
NYC Developer Ponzinomics & Tides Equities' Judgment Day
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we break down the sensational allegations made by the feds against former New York golden boy developer Josh Schuster – and why they are ...
Jona Rechnitz's Uncut Gems & Skyscraper Structural Corruption
14 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we dive into the tangled web of Jona Rechnitz, a New York real estate developer who was caught up in a massive NYPD corruption scandal befo...
Inside the Lending Game with Ran Eliasaf & Adam Neumann's Divine Flow
07 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Northwind Group's Ran Eliasaf, one of the most active private lenders in New York real estate, gives us an inside look at the debt game –...
Inside a Supertall Capital Stack & Newbond's Hotel Flyer
30 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we chat about a fascinating hospitality deal, Newbond swooping in to buy almost 9% of San Francisco's hotel stock in one megadeal. It’s o...
The Rise of Pref & Meridian Out of Agency Jail
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, The Promote dives into the proliferation of preferred-equity deals in the CRE market – why are they suddenly everywhere, and what investo...
Tariff Terror, $11,000 psf condos & Starwood's land bets
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we discuss the fear & loathing set off in the CRE markets by the Trump tariffs, looking at the impact both on fund managers and on deve...
Gary Barnett: The Father of Billionaires' Row
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this special edition of the Promote Podcast, we dive into the singular career of Gary Barnett, the diamond trader who birthed Manhattan's Billionai...
Crowd Comes for CrowdStreet & LifeCo Lenders Roar
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we break down CrowdStreet playing the victim card in CRE's biggest-ever crowdfunding scam, perpetrated by Elie Schwartz. We riff on why CMB...
Related's Signature Bank Heist & Newmark Vs. Eastdil
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we discuss the rivalry between two mighty CRE brokerages, Eastdil Secured and Newmark, polar opposites in terms of culture and compensation...
Heat on Chetrit & Cohen's Fortress of Pain
17 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Promote Podcast, we discuss cracks in the property empire of the mighty Chetrit family, the merchant princes of New York real estat...
Bad Boy Carveouts & Skyscraper Ransoms
09 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the first episode of The Promote Podcast, we’ve got quite the docket: Bad Boy Guarantees, which are suddenly everywhere in CRE loan disputes with...