Behind The Bricks is a podcast about New York City Multifamily Real Estate Investing. Specifically, I’ll interview and have discussions with the most active and fascinating NYC apartment building owners in the industry. The goal of these talks is to go behind the transactions and explore what drives these individuals and the investment choices they make. How do they balance opportunity with the obstacles and the risk with the rewards? Some shows are biographical, some are about management op ...
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2022 Q4 New York Multifamily Market and Policy Update with Jay Martin and Christina Smyth
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Today you're going to be hearing from New York Multifamily partners Joe Koicim, Seth Glasser, and Shaun Riney, as they discuss the state of the New York Multifamily market going into Q4. Joining us will be frequent guest Jay Martin, Executive Director of the Community Housing Improvement Program and DHCR guru Christina Smyth, Founder of Smyth Law P…
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2022 Q1 Recap - Joe Koicim, Shaun Riney, Seth Glasser
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Today we sit down with my partners on the New York Multifamily Team, Joe Koicim, Shaun Riney, and Seth Glasser to discuss how the market has changed so far this year and how it will continue to change. Where are rents headed? Will rates continue to rise? How are buyers and seller reacting to these changes? We dive deep into the dynamics of the curr…
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Instant Insight with Seth Glasser: Upper Manhattan and the Bronx
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Today we sit down with a New York Multifamily Partner, our own Seth Glasser. Seth is one of the foremost experts on the multifamily landscape of Upper Manhattan and the Bronx. Few people, if any, know more about the nuances of the rent stabilized side of the market than Seth. In this episode we break down some of Seth’s most recent transactions. We…
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The Future of Cities and Real Estate with Greg Lindsay
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Today we sit down with a man of many talents. Greg Lindsay is a journalist, urbanist, futurist, and speaker. He is a partner at the geo-strategic and climate advisory firm FutureMap, the senior fellow for applied research and foresight at NewCities, a senior fellow of MIT’s Future Urban Collectives Lab, and a non-resident senior fellow of The Atlan…
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Creating Order Out Of Chaos – Jesse Terry Evaluates the NYC Market
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Today we sit down with Jesse Terry, Managing Director at HUBBNYC. HUBBNYC is a privately held New York City real estate operating company that owns approximately 80 multi-family, retail, and mixed-use properties in Manhattan. Jesse uses his unique perspective on NYC real estate to answer the big questions on the minds of investors... Such as: What …
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Policy & Market Update with Jay Martin
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Today we sit down again with Jay Martin, Executive Director of the Community Housing Improvement Program. CHIP is a trade association for owners of over 400,000 rent-stabilized rental properties across New York City’s five boroughs. This is Jay’s 3rd time on this podcast, and he is always full of useful intel. In this episode, we discuss what CHIP …
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NYC Townhouse and Multifamily Market - Matt Lesser
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Today we speak with Matthew Lesser, Senior Partner of Leslie J. Garfield. Matthew has represented over $1.5 billion townhouse deals and was recently recognized as “Top Agent” by The Real Deal Magazine. The townhouse world in NYC has always been adjacent to the multifamily market and sometimes crosses over into investment territory. In this episode …
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Today we sit down with my partners on the New York Multifamily Team, Joe Koicim, Shaun Riney, and Seth Glasser to wrap up 2021 and discuss what may be in store for the NYC Multifamily market in 2022. Why did the activity this year exceed our expectations? Will this trend of rising velocity continue? Who’s buying and who’s selling in today’s market?…
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NYC Q4 Market Update with Joe Koicim, Shaun Riney, & Seth Glasser
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Today we sit down with my partners on the New York Multifamily Team, Joe Koicim, Shaun Riney, and Seth Glasser to discuss what the NYC Multifamily market looks like now and what may be in store for the rest of 2021. New York is well on its way to returning to normal. How is this crossing over to the investment market? We discuss how owners have …
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NYC Market Update – Joe Koicim, Shaun Riney, Seth Glasser
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Today we sit down with my partners on the New York Multifamily Team, Joe Koicim, Shaun Riney, and Seth Glasser to discuss the NYC Multifamily market now and what may be in store for the rest of 2021. The energy rising in the streets of the city and many other indicators say that New York is returning to normal… What does that mean for the market? W…
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Policy & Market Update with Jay Martin
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Today we sit down again with Jay Martin, Executive Director of the Community Housing Improvement Program. CHIP is a trade association for owners of over 400,000 rent-stabilized rental properties across New York City’s five boroughs. CHIP’s goal is to help members provide excellent and affordable housing, build a sense of community in their properti…
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Ofer Yardeni – Maximizing Operations in 2021
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This episode we feature an interview between myself and Ofer Yardeni from an event held by the Real Estate Lenders Association. Ofer is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Stonehenge NYC. Stonehenge, owns a portfolio of properties in Manhattan valued at approximately $1.9 billion comprised of 19 income-producing properties with 2,800 apartm…
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Michael Shah – Every Obstacle is an Opportunity
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Today we sit down –again— with Michael Shah, founder and managing partner of Delshah Capital, a PE and asset management firm with close to $1 billion of assets under management. (In case you haven’t heard it, we recorded a previous episode with Michael where we really dived into other aspects of his business that I highly recommend you listen to). …
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Richard Wilson – Raising Money and Family Offices
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Today we sit down with Richard Wilson, CEO & Founder of the Family Office Club, the #1 association of over 2,000 ultra-wealthy families and/or their family offices. As we emerge out of the pandemic, improving your ability to raise money is a key component to your success. Richard has carved out a specialty within this group. We dive into how to bui…
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Today we sit down with my partners of the New York Multifamily Team, Joe Koicim, Shaun Riney, and Seth Glasser to discuss the NYC Multifamily market in 2021. We will hit a variety of topics and dive into questions such as, What factors will cause this year to play out in a positive way? What sectors of the market will see the most appreciation? Who…
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Today we sit down with Alchemy Ventures co-founder, Sam Kooris. Alchemy Ventures has been directly responsible for the acquisition, financing and repositioning of over 25 buildings in Brooklyn, all within the last four years. The portfolio is valued in excess of $125,000,000. I thought to have Sam on the show as he was one of the most active buyers…
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First, I want thank all of you who listen, provide feedback, give me suggestions about the content. It’s truly a pleasure to share this information. Today we’re going to listen to some of the most informative bits of the podcast from the crazy year that just ended. You’ll be hearing the best snippets from last years’ conversations and from our own …
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Chris Voss - Negotiating 101: Life, Death, & Money (Repost)
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We will be revisiting this episode from 2018. It’s as relevant now as ever. With the changes in the market, being a better negotiator will certainly come in handy today…. Chris Voss was the Lead International Kidnapping Negotiator in the FBI for 24 years. His book, Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It, outlines his…
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Marshall Cox – Better Heat, Lower Cost
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As we head into the colder weather there is not a better time to release this episode. Today we sit down with Marshall Cox, founder and CEO of Radiator Labs, a start-up that is revolutionizing the way multifamily buildings are heated. Given the operational challenges NYC owners are facing today, technology that will improve building services while …
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Coronavirus Impact on NYC Multifamily Part 3
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On this quick episode of Behind the Bricks myself, Joe Koicim, Shaun Riney, and Seth Glasser share our third update in our series of conversations on the impact of the Coronavirus on the New York City multifamily market. You will hear about the types of buyers coming into the market, the areas with the highest deal velocity, and the challenges and …
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Instant Insight: NNN Properties & Covid-19 with Glen Kunofsky
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Almost every NYC multifamily owner who has spoken to me about selling an asset has asked, “Where would I put the money if I sold?” Coming from this managment intensive product some choose to invest in net leased properties. Today we sit down with Glen Kunofsky, Founder of the NNN Pro Group at Marcus & Millichap. Glen and his team have closed thousa…
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Instant Insight: Rent Stabilized Market in NYC with James Eisenberg
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Today we speak with James Eisenberg, Executive Vice President at Urban American. Urban American is one of the largest and most well-known owners and managers of multifamily real estate properties in NYC. Many of their assets are in neighborhoods with mostly rent stabilized units. In this episode, James explains how they have been adapting in the ti…
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Instant Insight: The NYC Rental Market with Jordan Sachs
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Today we are doing an instant insight conversation with Jordan Sachs, co-founder BOLD New York. BOLD NY is a top flight full-service residential firm handling residential sales and rentals. The focus of this episode is one of the biggest questions Multifamily players are asking in the wake of the crisis: What is the current state of the NYC rental …
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Coronavirus Impact on NYC Multifamily Part 2
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Have a question you'd like answered on an upcoming episode? Call and let us know what it is: 646-450-1833. In this episode we take the impacts of COVID-19 a step further. With NYC being the epicenter of the pandemic our multifamily team has been directly dealing with the rapidly changing NYC multifamily market: All property operators, sellers and b…
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This is a quick announcement episode where I wanted to introduce a project that has been under underway for many months. For several years, many New York City investors have asked me for information about other markets around the US. As the regulatory environment in New York has become more difficult....the pace of these questions only increased. T…
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Have a question you'd like answered on an upcoming episode? Call and let us know what it is: 646-450-1833. As all of us in the NYC Multifamily industry make adjustments in our personal and professional lives, we wanted to share how the coronavirus is impacting NYC multifamily. This week I sat down, over video chat, with my partners: Joe Koicim, Set…
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Jeremy Salzberg: How to Acquire 100 Buildings in 10 Years
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NYC 2020 Residential Outlook: Jordan Sachs & Chelsea Werner
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Joseph Tahl: The New Reality of Condo Conversions
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Today we sit down with Joseph Tahl, President and Co-Founder of Tahl Propp Equities. Tahl Propp Equities is a privately held real estate investment, development and management company that specializes in affordable housing and retail in Harlem and Upper Manhattan. Since its founding in 1997, the firm has amassed a portfolio of more than 4 million s…
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Welcome to "part 2" of this two-part series about the owner’s response to the rent regulation laws that were passed in June 2019 in New York. This law radically transformed how owners of multifamily properties with rent stabilized tenants conduct their business and in response, several owner groups have filed lawsuits. If you haven’t listened to th…
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Welcome to this two-part series about the owner’s response to the rent regulation laws that were passed in June 2019 in New York. This law radically transformed how owners of multifamily properties with rent stabilized tenants conduct their business and in response, several owner groups have filed lawsuits. The most prominent of those lawsuits has …
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In this special compilation episode, we have pulled a few clips from some of our most popular episodes. We’ll hear from Josh Zegen, Michael Shah, and Jarett Fein. Each of these prominent real estate players touch upon their humble beginnings in the industry, what they look for to find success, and how they navigated through market downswings. Each …
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Brad Hargreaves: Co-Living and Multifamily
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Everyone in the commercial real estate industry has asked themselves how is technology going to hurt or help them? How will it change the business and its opportunities? One way it’s changing is through “co-living.” The co-living concept is at the intersection of technology, evolving cultural norms, economic pressures, and possibly the beginning of…
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MMT – How Financing Data is Changing CRE with Ely Razin
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In this “Monthly Market Talk” episode we do a quick dive about financing data in the CRE space. We sit down with Ely Razin, the CEO and founder of CrediFi. CrediFi is a commercial real estate data provider that leverages 200 billion data points to bring transparency to the financing of balance-sheet and securitized loans backed by commercial proper…
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Francis Greenburger: Perseverance and the Downturn Advantage
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In today’s episode we sit with Francis Greenburger, Founder and CEO of Time Equities Inc. (TEI). Since its founding in 1966, TEI has amassed approximately 31 million SF of CRE, across 30 states and 5 countries. He also has many other notable successes outside of real estate as literary agent, author, philanthropist, and founder of the Greenburger C…
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The 2019 NY Rent Laws (Part 2 – Brokers)
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Welcome to part 2 of this special series where we take a deep dive into the recent changes made to the rent laws in New York. In many ways the new laws have radically transformed how business is conducted and the quality of housing. In the previous episode we heard the perspectives of two owners — (If you didn’t have a chance to listen that one, yo…
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The 2019 NY Rent Laws (Part 1 – Owners)
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In this special 2-part series, we take a deep dive into the recent changes made to rent laws in New York. For many investors and owners of rent regulated units, these new laws radically transform the business and how it’s conducted. Many investors are asking questions about how to move forward now that the laws have been passed. For Pt.1 of this se…
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John Romaniello: Health, Wealth, & Energy
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To get yourself in shape for the approaching summer, today we hear from John Romaniello. John is the author of the bestselling book "Man 2.0; Engineering the Alpha: A Real World Guide to an Unreal Life: Build More Muscle. Burn More Fat. Have More Sex.” That is a great marketing title and is attention grabbing, but the content has a lot more to do w…
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MMT – NYC Rent Law Changes With Mitch Kossoff
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In this episode of our Monthly Market Talks, we sit down with Mitch Kossoff and Danny Handweiler. In our conversation we take a technical deep dive into the potential changes coming to NYC rent laws this June. Mitch is an industry veteran who has been litigating thousands and thousands of complex residential and commercial landlord tenant cases sin…
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Chad Tredway: Mastering the Growth Mindset
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In today’s episode we sit down with Chad Tredway, the Co-Head of Real Estate Banking at the largest bank in the US; J.P. Morgan. Chad is the youngest managing director in the history of the bank, and for good reason. He manages $25 billion worth of credit exposure and a team of more than 100 employees. He has been named one of the “50 Most Powerful…
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Today’s show is a segment called “Instant Insight.” Every now and then, we will deliver a small nugget of wisdom pulled from one of our previous guest interviews. In this “Instant Insight” we hear from Adam Mermelstein’s unforgettable entry into the ever-exciting commercial real estate game. If you didn’t think the real estate industry was tough, t…
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John Catsimatidis: Paying It Forward and the American Dream
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In today’s episode we sit down with a man who exemplifies the “American dream.” Over his career, John Catsimatidis has been massively successful in the grocery, real estate, oil, and aviation industries. Through his business endeavors, most notably the Gristedes Grocery chain, John has amassed several billion dollars and may be considering another …
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Ofer Yardeni: New Market, New Opportunities
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Today we sit down with Ofer Yardeni the Chairman and CEO of Stonehenge NYC, one of the most successful private real estate companies in New York. Throughout his career he has acquired over $4 billion of NYC commercial and residential properties and he is one of the players who transformed the value-add business model in NYC. Ofer came to the US as …
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Steve Kalifowitz: Location. Location. Technology.
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I am excited to announce the release of our latest Behind the Bricks segment called “Monthly Market Talks” (MMT). In these shorter format episodes, listeners will hear focused market insights from some of the industry’s leading experts on a specific topic. In today’s episode we sit down with Steve Kalifowitz and Dylan Walsh. Steve is the president …
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Josh Zegen: Alternative Lending & Creating Opportunities
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Today we sit down with Josh Zegen, a notable name in the alternative lending world and co-founder of Madison Realty Capital. Since 2004, Josh and his partners have completed $9 billion in lending transactions and also have over $4 billion in assets under management. For many in the real estate business, the entrepreneurial drive began at a young ag…
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Ryan Serhant: NYC 2019 Residential Outlook
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Ryan Serhant is widely known for being the star of Bravo’s “Million Dollar Listing New York” and his show and book titled “Sell it Like Serhant.” For good reason...Ryan's sales team is consistently ranked one of Wall Street Journal’s top 5 residential sales teams nationwide. We all know the NYC residential sales market indirectly influences the mul…
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2019 Multifamily Outlook -- Joe Koicim, Shaun Riney & Seth Glasser
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On this special episode of Behind the Bricks, I am joined by my partners Joe Koicim, Shaun Riney and Seth Glasser for an end-of-the-year recap and glance at our predictions for 2019. Let's dive in about how 2018 has fared and how we believe 2019 will play out in the NYC Multifamily market. There are changes on the horizon. Unlike other episodes, we…
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Compilation! Best Advice to Enter the Business
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As we wrap up the second season of Behind the Bricks, I thought we would treat everyone to a special episode of a compilation of some of the best advice given by past guests. We will hear from, Ryan Serhant, Jordan Vogel, Adam Mermelstein, Greg and Graham Jones, and a handful of others, as they dispense advice for entering the real estate business.…
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Richard Sarkis – How Big Data Now Massively Impacts RE Investing
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Big real estate data is changing the playing field by closing the inefficiencies in the commercial real estate market. How will this impact investing in the future? Today we sit down with Richard Sarkis, Co-Founder and CEO of Reonomy. Reonomy is a commercial real estate data platform that is transforming the world’s largest asset class. It’s all ab…
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The Art of Buying Unsold Co-Ops and Condo Packages – Myles Horn
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Finding success in the NYC real estate business requires being creative with where and how to add value. One market that requires this skill is the bulk purchase of unsold units in condominiums and co-ops. In essence, it’s about buying wholesale and selling retail, but it gets much more complicated from there... Today we sit down with Myles J. Horn…
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