Video 9: Crowd Funding

The Jobs Act of 2012 loosened regulations governing capital raising. Though very much in its infancy, alternative funding sources have

Video 8: Politics and Real Estate

Communities leverage property owner rights through a series of codes, restrictions, permitting processes, ordinances, taxes and laws. A general discussion

Video 5: Economic Trend

How do we look at economic indicators and what do we make of them? The changing nature of strategy should

Video 2: Investment Objectives

Investors and real estate are courting each other, getting married, and over time they eventually run their life cycle. Investing

Banking and Shadow Banking

Words… what do they really mean? What is banking? What does a bank do, or what is it that a bank is supposed to do? I’m 53 and in my lifetime, I’ve witnessed a complete change in the banking system in the U.S.

Fannie, Freddie and U.S. Housing Finance Reform

On August 7, President Obama suggested that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac should go out of business, as he called for “a return of private capital, [to] put the risk and rewards associated with mortgage lending in the hands of private actors, not the taxpayers.”

The Elements That Make Up the Economic Seasons

We are all familiar with Porgy and Bess classic Summertime line, “When the fish are jumpin’…” that can bring back memories of the Old South or at least remind us of an era gone by. As summer ambles, with too many back to school television advertisements already, I wonder where the time has gone.

The LANDCO View On “Opportunities In Distress”

The CRE Financial Council’s Distress Debt Summit, held in Santa Monica on May 9th and 10th, was well worth attending. What follows are a few conference topics and what we felt were views sharing significant consensus or opposition. We hope you will find this as interesting as we did.