Asset Management In Focus: BKM’s Mason Waite and Kayne Anderson’s Brian Lessans on asset management

Chase McWhorter, managing director, Americas, at Institutional Real Estate, Inc., interviewed Mason Waite, senior managing director of asset and portfolio management at bkm Capital Partners, and Brian Lessans, managing director on the investments team at Kayne Anderson Real Estate, as part of a series of videos focused on asset management. The discussion explored how BKM and Kayne Anderson formed a programmatic joint venture in light bay industrial real estate, drawn together by the sector's strong downside protection and BKM's specialized expertise, proprietary technology and high-touch management approach. The discussion explored how asset management has shifted post-COVID from a “feeding frenzy” market to a more disciplined environment in which executing acquisition-stage business plans, tracking metric-driven KPIs and filling data gaps for smaller units are essential to maximizing returns. (04/2026)