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The case for investing in secondary and third-tier markets

by Mike Consol

AJ Osborne has been investing in self-storage since 2004, and in that time he has developed a finely calibrated map of the American real estate landscape — one that looks nothing like the conventional wisdom that equates safety with size. As CEO of Cedar Creek Capital, Osborne oversees a portfolio spanning roughly 12 states, from Phoenix and Dallas-Fort Worth to Iowa, Oklahoma and the Pacific Northwest. His specialty is secondary markets, and his track record there, he says, is ...

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Profile: Michele Havens, head of U.S. wealth management at BMO

by Mike Consol

On the morning the Palisades burned, Michele Havens went to work and never returned home. She was weeks into one of the biggest professional transitions of her career — leaving a 24-year tenure at Northern Trust to lead BMO’s U.S. wealth management business — when the January fires swept through her Pacific Palisades neighborhood. Her children were pulled from school. The family checked into a downtown hotel. That evening, tracking the destruction on their phones like the rest of Los Angeles, they ...

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Talent as capital: A rare opportunity for CRE firms to strengthen teams for the next cycle

by Hillary Shine

Several years ago, our firm published an article titled “Investing in Human Capital.” The central theme was simple: Organizations that approach hiring with the same discipline and long-term perspective as an investment decision tend to achieve stronger, more durable outcomes. We continue to believe this approach remains a winning formula for employers across all market cycles. The prevailing sentiment across the commercial real estate industry is that ...

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