Deconstruct

The Real Deal’s Suzannah Cavanaugh and Joe Lovinger break down the newest, biggest trends and concepts in real estate.

About the show

In Deconstruct, The Real Deal breaks down the most important ideas in real estate. We follow the money from Los Angeles to New York City to explain what investors, brokers and developers are focused on right now. This is essential listening for understanding the great, big world of real estate.

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Episodes

  • Deconstruct Live at The Real Deal's Miami Forum: Inside Miami's Resi Market

    November 20th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  32 mins 26 secs
    apartments, brokerages, business, condo, condo market, development, dora puig, fortune international group, investing, luxury real estate, miami, new york city, news, residential

    Deconstruct chats with Miami star broker Dora Puig and Fortune International Group's Edgardo Defortuna and Ana Christina Defortuna at The Real Deal's Miami Forum.

  • About That NAR Verdict — Everything You Need To Know

    November 13th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  29 mins 6 secs
    brokerages, commissions, damages, mls, nar, national association of realtors, verdict

    On the last day of October, a jury found the National Association of Realtors and two brokerages — HomeServices of America and Keller Williams Realty — guilty of conspiring to artificially inflate broker commissions. The verdict immediately spurred a copycat suit and could inspire dozens more. The Department of Justice is eyeing its own case and policy changes could be on the table. The Real Deal's Sheridan Wall and Harrison Connery break down the case and its aftermath.

  • Meet Maya: Fredrik Eklund Takes on AI

    November 6th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  24 mins 16 secs
    ai, apartments, brokerages, business, chatgpt, condos, douglas elliman, investing, luxury market, new york city, news, real estate, residential

    Top brokers Fredrik Eklund and John Gomes at Douglas Elliman have created a new artificial intelligence tool built on ChatGPT for real estate. The Real Deal's Deconstruct looks at the new tool, Maya.

  • The Syndicator's Dilemma: A Multifamily Boom Goes Bust

    October 30th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  32 mins 6 secs
    commercial real estate, distress, interest rates, investment, multifamily, rate hikes, sun belt, syndicators

    Two years back, when money was still cheap, a new crop of investors was getting in on the red-hot multifamily market. Syndicators — investors who pool money to buy properties — turned to floating-rate debt to quickly close deals when demand was at its peak. After a year and a half of rate hikes, many of those fledgling investors are now grappling with distress. Nuvo Capital Partners' Brian Underdahl discusses the catalysts behind that boom and how his firm is working with borrowers to save troubled deals.

  • The Distress Roiling the CMBS Markets

    October 23rd, 2023  |  Season 3  |  28 mins 37 secs
    business, cmbs, commercial mortgage-backed securities, commercial real estate, debt, investing, lending, new york city, news, office market, polpo capital, real estate, real estate and finance, real estate news, securities

    The Real Deal's Deconstruct looks at the distress hitting commercial mortgage-backed securities.

  • The Father of CMBS Talks Origin Stories, Great Recession and Today's Distress

    October 16th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  29 mins 53 secs
    cmbs, commercial real estate, ethan penner, great recession, loans, mortgages, structured finance

    The Real Deal's Deconstruct podcast chats with the creator of commercial mortgage-backed securities, Ethan Penner.

  • As New Development Stalls, Swire Properties is Still Reshaping Miami

    October 9th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  27 mins 9 secs
    branded residences, brickell, brickell key, development, miami, office, related, south florida, swire properties

    Tighter lending conditions have proved a thorn in the side of many Miami developers. But not Swire Properties. Henry Bott, the new president of the firm's American arm, discusses development plans for the last piece of land on Brickell Key, plus the office supertall it's building with Related on the mainland.

  • Filling the Gap: The Private Players Turning to Real Estate

    October 2nd, 2023  |  Season 3  |  27 mins 36 secs
    arkhouse, business, commercial real estate, investing, m&a, new york city, news, private credit, private equity, real estate, real estate news, the real deal

    The Real Deal's podcast Deconstruct chats with the managing partners of Arkhouse, an activist investment firm that looks for opportunities to take public real estate investment trusts private.

  • The Agency's Mauricio Umansky Talks Resi Rebound and Reality TV

    September 25th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  22 mins 21 secs
    buying beverly hills, mauricio umansky, residential brokerage, the agency, the dealmaker

    Mauricio Umansky is a busy guy. His brokerage The Agency opened a New York office last year, then a Hamptons outpost early this summer. His firm and family star in the Netflix series Buying Beverly Hills. Season 2 wrapped filming in July. And this spring the broker released his first book — The Dealmaker. It's a guide to success in business and in life.

  • Why Related Companies Is Still Building Office

    September 18th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  33 mins 50 secs
    austin, business, chicago, commercial real estate, development, investing, jeff blau, new york city, news, office, office market, real estate, real estate news, related companies, stephen ross, tenants

    The Real Deal's Deconstruct chats with Related Companies' head of office development, Philippe Visser, about the attraction of newer office properties, struggling markets and the fundamental market shifts.

  • CrowdStreet, Nightingale and a Crowdfunding Disaster

    September 11th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  29 mins 16 secs
    atlanta, business, commercial real estate, crowdfunding, crowdstreet, fundraising, fundrebel, investing, new york city, news, nightingale properties, office, real estate, real estate news, syndication

    In June, a group of investors who invested in a deal on CrowdStreet found out their money was missing. The Real Deal's podcast Deconstruct looks at what happened, the risks with crowdfunding and a new platform that is trying to differentiate itself.

  • Inside Larry Silverstein's New Lease on Life

    September 5th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  22 mins 55 secs
    apartment, business, commercial real estate, investing, new york city, news, office, real estate, real estate news, residential, silverstein properties

    At 92 years old, Larry Silverstein is shaking things up. The founder of Silverstein Properties is spearheading a mammoth office-to-residential conversion. He's thrown his hat in the ring for the city casino bid. And he's in with a new crowd: the young folks of Lower Manhattan.

  • We're baaack! Deconstruct Season 3 Coming Soon

    August 28th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  1 min 54 secs
    larry silverstein, office market, premiere, related, season 3, syndicators

    The Real Deal's Deconstruct is back with a fresh season of interviews, deep dives and market analysis Tuesday, September 5. After that, catch us every Monday on Apple, Spotify, TheRealDeal.com or wherever else you love to listen.

  • RXR Realty CEO Scott Rechler Talks Distress, Slowdowns and Opportunity

    June 26th, 2023  |  Season 2  |  40 mins 52 secs
    business, commercial real estate, distress, investing, lending, new york city, news, office market, real estate, real estate news, rxr realty, scott rechler

    The Real Deal's Deconstruct sat down with RXR Realty CEO Scott Rechler to talk about where he's finding opportunity in all the commercial real estate distress.

  • Too Hot to Handle: The Hamptons Housing Crunch

    June 19th, 2023  |  Season 2  |  18 mins 15 secs
    hamptons, luxury homes, rentals, sales, southampton

    It’s no secret the Hamptons boomed during the pandemic. New Yorkers fled the city in search of year-round vacation properties, stoking for-sale demand that flooded over into rentals. As the market enters its first Covid-free summer (fingers crossed), brokers say that surge has receded. In its wake stands a housing market transformed.

  • Why Palm Beach is Seeing Record Mansion Pricing

    June 12th, 2023  |  Season 2  |  22 mins 29 secs
    business, florida, housing, investing, luxury market, miami, new york city, palm beach, real estate, real estate news, todd michael glaser, tom ford

    The Real Deal podcast Deconstruct looks at how record mansion deals are still dominating the housing market in Palm Beach, despite a slowdown in home buying across the country.