Your Commercial Real Estate Insider guide. From profiles of the biggest dealmakers to skyline-shaping transactions, we bring you the deals, breakdowns and war stories that move the market — for insiders, by insiders. From bad-boy guarantees to CMBS tranche warfare to syndicator sins, we cover it all. Each week, The Promote Podcast explores three of the most interesting and consequential stories in CRE, taking you well beyond the headlines and into the heart of the action. Hosted by the award-winning “Bard of CRE,” Hiten Samtani, along with no-BS institutional insider Will Krasne. Now a top 80 pod on Apple in "Business & Investing." Also c...
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Nov 13, 2026 · 37:08
The Promote's first live show in New York brought together an invite-only crowd for cocktails and a no-holds barred conversation about capital stacks and characters. Our special…
Nov 11, 2026 · 35:21
*Special Episode Alert* Before there was Blackstone gobbling up giant property portfolios and stripping them for parts, there was Whitehall : Dan Neidich's elite Goldman Sachs…
Nov 4, 2026 · 35:19
This week, it’s time to address the multifamily distress from the lens of the lender, specifically, one of the biggest ones: Arbor Realty Trust has been walloped on Wall Street-…
Oct 29, 2026 · 35:57
This week, we break down an ingenious scheme that has wreaked havoc on several regional banks. Lad of Lakewood Shaya Prager became one of the biggest buyers of suburban office in…
Oct 21, 2026 · 37:37
This week, we dive into why the smartest guys in the room keep bellyflopping when it comes to CRE. Two Sigma’s recent retreat is part of a long line of edgy hedgies who’ve been…
Oct 14, 2026 · 31:27
This week, we get into the potential homecoming of a big agency lender: Lument is on the block, and sources point to a round-trip to its original home, the billionaire Hunt…
Oct 7, 2026 · 36:10
This week, we need to dive into the real estate deal of the year – arguably, of any year: Ken Griffin is bringing Carnegie Mellon to Miami , a transformative gift for the 305 in…
Sep 30, 2026 · 37:09
This week, it’s time to address the unrealized elephant in the room that is the biggest pain point in institutional CRE: Carry , or more precisely the lack of it. Thousands of…
Sep 25, 2026 · 22:49
In this bonus episode, we sit down with Presidio Bay’s Cyrus Sanandaji. Cyrus is at the vanguard of the comeback in America’s most important boom-and-bust town – San Francisco .…
Sep 23, 2026 · 31:43
This week, we take stock of the tale of Lurin Capital , a multifamily syndicator that's now in the FBI's crosshairs. Jon Venetos was cut from very different cloth than the rest…
Sep 16, 2026 · 34:20
This week, we visit CRE’s alpha lair, Blackstone HQ , where one of the industry’s top execs, global head of real estate Nadeem Meghji, is set to exit. His perch was among the…
Aug 26, 2026 · 37:44
This week, we dive into 2 operatic stories of ruin on different continents. We begin with the tale of Hui Ka Yan , a Chinese property tycoon who went from being a steelworker to…
Aug 19, 2026 · 32:59
This week, we put on our toques and head to the TSX, where Meyer Orbach and Josh Gotlib are on a fascinating multifamily caper with their REIT GO Residential . We then take a…
Aug 17, 2026 · 28:20
In this bonus episode, we sit down with JDS Development Group boss Michael Stern , one of the builders synonymous with the luxury condo market in New York and more recently in…
Aug 12, 2026 · 40:53
The final part of our special trilogy on the Reichmanns traces how the mother of all megaprojects became a siren song for Olympia & York. Everything that had brought them to…
Aug 5, 2026 · 42:00
Pt. II of our special episode on the Reichmanns takes us to the ultimate proving ground of Manhattan. We do a tick-tock of how Olympia & York pulled off the CRE deal of the…
Jul 29, 2026 · 37:50
This special episode dives deep into the story of the Reichmanns , an extraordinary family that probably contributed more to the financialization of CRE than anyone else. It’s a…
Jul 22, 2026 · 37:52
This week, it’s time for some California dreamin': We ascend Orange County’s Ziggurat , a stairway to heaven or SoCal’s biggest development clusterfuck, depending on your flavor.…
Jul 17, 2026 · 26:21
In our second mailbag episode, co-host Will Krasne tackles your most unhinged CRE questions: self-managing vs. 3rd party, nightmare tenant interactions, his CRE Mt. Rushmore and…
Jul 15, 2026 · 37:57
This week, we ride up a rickety construction elevator to the 21st floor of the Pfizer Building , where a major scare threatens to consume New York’s signature office-resi…
Jul 8, 2026 · 37:02
This week, we wade into the underbelly of big-ticket restructuring, looking at Pimco’s $1.8B lifeline on its disastrous bet on the Columbia Property Trust office portfolio, and…
Jul 1, 2026 · 37:46
This week, we take stock of the legacy of Alan Greenspan , the long-serving Fed Chair who has died at the ripe old age of 100. Greenspan’s moves, for better and for worse, shaped…
Jun 17, 2026 · 39:58
This week, we load up on chips n' vinegar and take you with us on an extraordinary journey into British caravan country . Embattled mobile-home king Robert Bull's tale brings…
Jun 10, 2026 · 38:41
This week, we dive into the high-stakes, high-reward (not for shareholders tho) world of SL Green, the mighty REIT that is New York’s largest commercial landlord . From a deal…
Jun 3, 2026 · 36:05
This week, we look at Texas billionaire Tilman Fertitta’s $18B megadeal for the Caesars entertainment empire - this is really an excuse for us to talk Tilman, one of the…
May 28, 2026 · 39:36
This week, we talk fear and loathing in interest rates : The 10Y and 5Y are going haywire and threaten to knock CRE's recovery off-kilter. Next, we discuss nepo babies running…
May 20, 2026 · 35:53
In this special episode , we dive deep into the story of JMB Realty Corporatio n, one of the most influential firms in the modern history of CRE, with a playbook and an alumni…
May 13, 2026 · 32:35
This week, we dive into Sunbelt multifamily kingpin’s Scott Everett's ( S2 Capital ) audacious attempt to save his distressed portfolio via a private REIT – an attempt coming…
May 6, 2026 · 35:09
This week, we discuss multifamily’s mega-marriage of convenience : After getting no love from the Street for being merely huge, multifamily REITs Equity Residential and AvalonBay…
Apr 29, 2026 · 36:41
This week, we have the this-is-too-weird-to-be-real tale of Forge Atlanta , a $3.8 billion megaproject with the most bizarro development team and history we’ve ever come across…
Apr 22, 2026 · 38:41
This week, we finally tackle the story of Mark Nussbaum – the real estate attorney who became the nexus of the underground Orthodox CRE dealmaking world, facilitating hundreds of…
Apr 15, 2026 · 34:26
"Property management companies made my spreadsheets lie." "We're gonna move the pref to a 17. Okay, okay, Tom. You're fucking me right now. You know that, right?" This week, we…
Apr 8, 2026 · 37:49
This week, we chop it up on how God is Smiling Upon Alts : The federal govt has put forward much-anticipated regulation that creates a smorgasbord of investment options for…
Apr 1, 2026 · 37:55
This week, we talk some takeaways from institutional real estate’s March Madness, the PREA conference – we’ve got the latest on what the industry's biggest allocators & fund…
Mar 25, 2026 · 35:24
This week, we dive into the life & times of two quintessential Men with Deep Pockets: Billionaire British Brothers David & Simon Reuben have become some of the most aggressive…
Mar 18, 2026 · 37:41
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 Secured for $1.1B. That gives the…
Mar 11, 2026 · 36:01
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 sixes and sevens. Fewer young…
Mar 4, 2026 · 36:08
In Ep. 50 (!), we trace Larry Silverstein's odyssey with the World Trade Center redevelopment, analyzing the new blockbuster Amex deal and the insurance, legal and financing…
Feb 25, 2026 · 39:57
This week, we look at the tragicomedy that is TSX Broadway , the Maefield/L&L/Fortress Times Square megadevelopment that came undone and left hundreds of foreign investors in the…
Feb 18, 2026 · 35:01
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 close to the sun. We trace…
Feb 11, 2026 · 37:38
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 labyrinth that is Brookfield’s…
Feb 4, 2026 · 30:09
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 back for another go at the…
Jan 28, 2026 · 34:44
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 behind, and he's reinvented…
Jan 21, 2026 · 34:32
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 even the SEC, but Stalcup is…
Jan 14, 2026 · 31:18
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 off a mad scramble. There’s…
Jan 7, 2026 · 27:54
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: LaTerra’s monster AIMCO…
Dec 31, 2025 · 34:01
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 center of that web is a…
Dec 24, 2025 · 30:13
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 then head to Hollywood where…
Dec 17, 2025 · 33:06
This week, we’re talking exotic alts – the far-flung corners of CRE that are starting to catch serious institutional interest. Think car washes, aviation hangars and the like.…
Dec 10, 2025 · 33:47
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 into a broader discussion about…
Dec 5, 2025 · 20:06
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 Dollar Listing, the best…
Dec 3, 2025 · 29:45
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 third of the city's…
Nov 19, 2025 · 31:06
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 many of these midsize players in…
Nov 12, 2025 · 32:18
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 pretty gnarly business to…
Nov 5, 2025 · 32:08
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-private megadeal for…
Oct 29, 2025 · 30:33
This week, we look at explosive allegations of mortgage fraud that have caught up 2 prominent regional banks. Zions and Western Alliance woes stemming from shenanigans at a…
Oct 22, 2025 · 36:51
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 660 Fifth Avenue , this…
Oct 15, 2025 · 30:45
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 of the OGs, including Nathan…
Oct 8, 2025 · 31:46
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 intertwined transaction that's…
Oct 1, 2025 · 33:51
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 of institutional CRE…
Sep 25, 2025 · 32:21
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 12M sf portfolio through a…
Sep 17, 2025 · 31:36
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 instead to take on an even more…
Sep 10, 2025 · 38:02
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 make CRE the greatest show on…
Sep 3, 2025 · 26:47
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 people. We then discuss syndicator…
Aug 27, 2025 · 33:01
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 revitalizing the famed member's club?…
Aug 20, 2025 · 32:22
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 the most epic commercial…
Aug 13, 2025 · 27:37
This week, we break down the outsized life & career of seminal Atlanta developer Tom Cousins: skyline-shaper, quail hunter, Ted Turner lender, Buffett buddy – an…
Aug 6, 2025 · 30:00
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 pool of capital: 401(k)s .…
Jul 30, 2025 · 27:57
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 pulling off a $25 billion,…
Jul 23, 2025 · 32:39
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 of New York. We dive into why…
Jul 16, 2025 · 34:01
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 most prominent families and…
Jul 9, 2025 · 27:37
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 plug on deals and are devising a…
Jul 2, 2025 · 30:56
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 examine mortgage fraudster…
Jun 25, 2025 · 33:23
This week, data center pioneer and DigitalBridge CEO Marc Ganzi walks Will & Hiten through 2 defining transactions in the space: The $11B take-private of Switch, and the…
Jun 18, 2025 · 26:50
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 allocator preferences are driving this…
Jun 11, 2025 · 28:51
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 multifamily syndicators.…
Jun 4, 2025 · 33:07
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 tidal wave of distress, with…
May 28, 2025 · 31:19
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-tax absolving vehicle that's…
May 21, 2025 · 27:40
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 emblematic of the market. We…
May 14, 2025 · 33:21
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 before heading to LA and…
May 7, 2025 · 27:03
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 – the returns, the structures…
Apr 30, 2025 · 26:08
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 one of the city's biggest…
Apr 23, 2025 · 26:50
This week, The Promote dives into the proliferation of preferred-equity deals in the CRE market – why are they suddenly everywhere, and what investors need to think about before…
Apr 16, 2025 · 27:26
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 developers – construction costs are…
Apr 9, 2025 · 29:47
In this special edition of the Promote Podcast, we dive into the singular career of Gary Barnett, the diamond trader who birthed Manhattan's Billionaires' Row and has…
Apr 2, 2025 · 19:43
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 CMBS is rearing its head in…
Mar 26, 2025 · 27:38
This week, we discuss the rivalry between two mighty CRE brokerages, Eastdil Secured and Newmark, polar opposites in terms of culture and compensation model. We break down the…
Mar 17, 2025 · 31:16
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 estate. We barrel down Powder…
Mar 9, 2025 · 29:04
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 multifamily syndicators. We…
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