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2:10pm departure from the hotel (transportation will be provided for those who need it) – 2:30pm-4:30pm sail
*Space on the Aurora and the Adirondack II is booked. To add your name to the waitlist, please email: Heather.Rothmann@imn.org.
Enjoy a memorable sail on scenic Narragansett Bay. The Aurora is a 101’ traditional wooden schooner originally built in 1947 in Thomaston, Maine. She was rebuilt in the 1990s in a tall ship fashion. The Adirondack II is a classic 80’ schooner. As you glide through the waves enjoy gorgeous coastline views and be awed as you glance upward at the sails billowing from 65’ masts.
Aurora – departs from a dock that is walking distance from the hotel; 2:30pm – 4:30pm Sail
Adirondack II – 2:10 departure from hotel (IMN will provide transportation); 2:30pm – 4:30pm Sail
*Space on the Aurora and the Adirondack II is booked. To add your name to the waitlist, please send an email to Heather.Rothmann@imn.org.
All Sponsors and Exhibitors setting up a booth
All attendees staying at the hotel or attending the Welcome Networking Reception.
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• Is there a disconnect between interest rates and valuation? When will it be back to normal?
• When do you think inflation will start to dissipate? How is this impacting property investment strategy?
• How are the current geographic migration patterns impacting?
• Are you seeing any asset bubbles? Are they close to bursting?
• What are your deal collaborations looking like?
• Amount of $$ and absorption
• Where will work and shop from home be in 5 years?
• Government decisions today and the impact on real estate tomorrow
• Portfolio allocation changes post-covid
• Strategy for compressed vs. non-compressed cap rate sectors
• Are the smile state and suburban demand trends long term in your investment decision? How is that impacting your gateway city investments?
• How is work from home impacted your office, Co-working and multifamily investment decisions? Shop from home and your retail and industrial strategies?
• What are your favorite non-food group investment types?
• Are you putting all the $$ out or holding back as the economy changes?
• As values rise are you taking profits?
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This interactive discussion will address topics like the real estate glass ceiling, career development and your questions in this intimate, small group setting.
• Has inflation changed your thoughts?
• Janet Jackson said it best… Control
• Asset- and geo-specific issues
• Is loan-to-own part of your playbook?
• Impact of building appreciation, stabilization progress; tax implications, fees earned, fund liquidity and your investment strategy
• Preferred, debt and mezz
• When would you use seller finance to sweeten a disposition?
• Changing waterfalls, promotes, negotiations?
• 1031 exchange market possibilities
• Partial exits and the complexities of bring in new $$
• 1031 and current capital gains regulations… Here to stay?
• New standards around investment return measurement and marketing
• The atmosphere surrounding rent regulations and housing affordability
• Climate change, wind and other renewable energy
• What Washington is doing to ease the supply chain and its impact on real estate
• Impact of electric car support
• What a real estate executive needs to know about the infrastructure and build back plans
• Where are we with opportunity zones and EB-5?
• SEC & new disclosure regulations
• What should you look for in a vendor partner?
• What are the technology must haves
• Going from other structures to a fund… What are the differences on the admin side?
• What kind and the amount of staffing and expertise is needed in-house
• What do you want to keep in-house?
• Working through conflicts with your outsourced partners
• The fund launch…
• What is the impact of rates on today’s changing interest rate environment?
• Is there still a record amount of capital out there?
• Comparing bank, life company, CMBS lenders and debt funds
• Role of GSEs
• Asset classes and geographies you like
• Underwriting and value
• How are you looking at covid-impacted assets and owners?
• Bridge to perm
• Should you lock in?
After presenting the key issues of the asset including valuation, cash flow, the impact of macroeconomics factors and stress test assumptions if the market turns the audience then will be polled on their interest in investing in the following sectors
Moderator:
Tami Davidman, Partner Eisner Advisory Group LLC
Panel Participants
> Build-to-rent
> Scattered Site Single Family Rentals- Henchman LeMaistre, CEO Picket Homes & Inertia Realty Services
> Notes- Nathan Turner, President, Earnest Inc
> Student Housing- Kevin White, Chief Investment Officer, Virtus Real Estate Capital
> Manufactured Housing- Thomas McDevitt, President Edgewood Capital
• ILPA and NCREIF compliance
• Staffing for do-it-your-self vs. using a fund administrator
• Emerging managers and what needs to be done for a successful fund launch? Go from friends and family to institutional capital?
•Transparency and reporting expectations between GP, LPs and administrators
• Asset- vs. fund-level reporting and how deep you need to go
• Key considerations for administrating the retails market
• ESG fund challenges
• The newest data uses and technology
• How much equity should an anchor put up? What are their expectations? Should you re-up your legacy anchor investor?
• Special considerations for open ended & perpetual life/evergreen funds distressed and debt funds
• Fund-level rescue capital terms and fund re-structuring in the past vs. now
• Successor planning
• Structuring with foreign capital
• The LP side as they demand more structural options
• Fee light vs. higher participation on the back end
• Going distressed- What does it take to change your mandate?
• When is it advantageous to use the Co-GP structure?
• Are you currently getting an uptick in redemption requests? What are your options?
• Which markets do you like? Are avoiding?
• Performance over the next 3 years
• Amenity ROI winners and losers
• As costs rise are you looking towards new development?
• Should you switch from HUD to Fannie or Freddie?
• Do you like market rate or luxury?
• Value-added vs. conversion vs. new construction
• What do you think of rental alternatives like single family rental/build-to-rent, student housing, senior housing and short-term rental
• The migration to the smile states
• Do you evaluate your GPs on a women’s track record? What are some other good policies you’d advocate to ensure women are equally considered for promotion and growth opportunities?
• ESG, housing & real estate impact investing
• LEED certification-How important? How about some of the other certificates out there?
• Keeping your returns high in an ESG environment
• On the lookout for greenwashing?
• Keeping pace with Pace
• Article 9 funds
• Finding benchmarks & fund allocation targets
• Net Zero Carbon Strategy development or implementation
• Sustainable debt market
• Impact of SEC environmental disclosure proposal on private markets
• Performance of Workforce Housing vs. Class during COVID?
• What kind of capital is entering the market
• New government and GSE initiatives
• Operations side initiatives that have increased revenues or decreased expenses?
• Where is the MILTC at?
• Housing as an ESG play
• Latest developments in tax credit and vouchers
• What kind of amenities work even for those with restricted incomes?
• Determining if there is enough left for a value-add play and keep it work force or affordable
• Debt market availability and structure
• Partner due diligence
• Recent pain points
• How do you like new funds to communicate with you?
• What do you look for in a successor fund? Rolling in vs. rolling out your $$
• Making the promote terms crystal clear
• How do you look at compounding frequency, contribution timing and clawback provisions?
• Equity in the fund, ownership interests and incentive fees
• When do you use a 3rd-party to insure you are on the same page?
• As investments flow to the smile states is there value in gateway cities?
• Construction prices have gone through the roof, and now we have a major labor shortage… How has this impacted your ability to take on value-add/opportunistic deals?
• What parts of the markets are cheap? Overvalued?
• Are you looking to reposition any of your office, retail or hotel assets?
• How are you changing your thinking on what makes a good sub-market?
• Are you shifting your thinking on equity vs. debt?
After presenting the key issues of the asset like valuation, cash flow, the impact of macroeconomics factors and stress test assumptions if the market turns the audience then will be polled on their interest in investing in the following sectors
Rep from Juniper Square
Moderator:
Nathan Turner, President, Earnest Inc
Panel Participants
> Self-Storage- Robert Stern, Managing Partner Castle Hill Investors, LLC
> Life Sciences-Lauren Gilchrist, Managing Director of Research Longfellow
> Medical Office/Health Care-Related Facilities- Brian Newman, Senior Vice President and Portfolio Manager Ventas Investment Management
> Data Centers-Gary Werner, Managing Director NextTier Real Estate Investors
• What do you look for in a manager?
• For first time funds, do take into consideration risk spectrum in making a selection
• What role do you see ESG playing going forward?
• Debt and alternative assets as part of your allocation
• Partner due diligence
• New thinking on cash flow from operations and capital transactions
• Allocation changes, target returns and newest mandates
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• Comparing where you should invest… Class “A”, big box facilities; class “B”, last mile; multi-tenant flex space or cold storage?
• Where are the growth markets and the how is the environment for new construction and/or renovations?
• Approach to value-add and growth markets
• As larger players continue to enter the space how are you finding supply?
• What are some of the intangibles as you look at deals
• Debt products and financial tools in the space
• Outsourcing property management vs. vertical integration
• What are some of the newer forms of collaboration?
• Co-GP structure and side-car arrangements
• Innovations in the JV structure
• The accounting, back-office and reporting side
• The seeds of a failed equity investment
• Small vs. large checks and what else do you look for beside $$ in an equity investor?
• Sponsor equity in deal
• Looking at different foreign and domestic equity sources and their negotiable points
• What do you think of longer dated and bespoke funds?
• What does construction equity look like?
• Sometimes you want to be a GP; sometimes an LP…
• How can you model or schedule new construction or conversion with inflation and uncertain supply lines?
• What kind of assets are you looking to convert? What would be their alternative use?
• Anatomy of a geography ripe for conversion
• What kind of credits and programs are out there to ease conversion costs in multifamily or other assets?
• Going from” B/C” to Class “A”
• Suburban vs. inner-city plays
• How much above replacement cost would you go? What are the factors that feed into that decision?
• How are you assessing value?
• Where is construction penciling?
• The cost of land and its impact
• Valuing properties in opportunity zones
• Where are hotels over-performing? Are the brands getting tougher on Pips and other key issues
• Class AAA Office seems to be performing better than other office properties… What can you expect to spend on building modernization to that level?
• What kinds of assets would you be looking to adapt to different purposes?
• Evaluating the retail to mixed-use play
• What to do when your competition is work from home, covid and Amazon?
• Metaverse community platforms and what type of assets have value?
• Using blockchain to tokenize real estate
• Bitcoin and metaverse mortgages
• Looking out for fraud
• Investing in web 3.0 and 5G
• The digital land grab
• Where to apply AI
• Getting the tenant… Experiential platforms in 3D & virtual reality tours and what is needed to get it done
• Keeping the tenant… What is the I-generation looking for?
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Now that there is light at the end of the coronavirus tunnel what are the early returns of small and new funds hitting up old friends, family, as well as new retail and institutional investors? What is the standard GP commitment looking like today? What is the typical check size and percent of fund? Data LPs are looking for? What should a GP be focused on during this transition point?
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• Have you found placement agents willing to help raise an initial fund for a sponsor moving to fund model from deal-by-deal one?
• With a similar sized investment pool where can you make the most money?
• 1031s, DSTs and tax inefficiencies to consider
• When do you forego covenants such as leasing milestones and minimum net worth coverage for construction projects?
• Portraying a track record that can pass fund due diligence
• Investing on a LP-level
• What kind of equity structures do you prefer? Carry, management fees and capital brought in +…
• Direct investments and what you like
• How should you be approached by potential partners? What do you look for in a pitch? Meeting?
• What do you think of opportunity zones?
• ESG and the social side of real estate investing
• What kind of service, infrastructure and reporting is needed?
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What is a low-value concession sponsors would gladly give up that is a high-value deal point to an LP? What type of leverage are fund sponsors comfortable with? What do you look for in a new real estate asset manager? These and of course the fund strategy will be among the points discussed.
The Tank Leader- Kamil Homsi, Founder/CEO, GRC Investment Group-Dubai (SFO)
The LPs will consider investing in the funds: Adam Frankel, Trustee - City Commissioner Delray Beach General Employees; Alan Stanzler, Chief Investment Officer, Fassino Family Office; Matthew Freedman, CIO, Lousiana SERS
The GPs will provide fund information: Adam Whitmire, Fund Manger, Arabella Capital; Ted Fowler, Head of Real Estate and Portfolio Manager, Prospect Capital
• What is your acquisition strategy? Why?
• Data… What is your favorite?
• How is ESG compliance affecting due diligence and acquisitions process? What ESG factors are you considering with your assets?
• Looking at a full cycle: Acquisitions through recap/disposition
• What types of assets are you looking for your fund vs. other investment pools?
• Has your property and seller due diligence changed post-covid with tools like zoom and 3-D walkthroughs?
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