Global strategist and AlphaGeo founder Parag Khanna joins Inside CRE to explore how demographics, geopolitics, climate risk and new infrastructure are reshaping North American real estate. From regionalization and the Great Lakes “New North” to migration trends, climate-adaptation opportunities and&nb...

In this episode, Marc sits down with Ryan Severino, chief economist and head of research at BGO, for a deep dive into the forces shaping commercial real estate across North America. Fresh off his keynote at the CRE.Converge conference, Ryan shares his data-driven outlook on the economy, interest rate cycles, and what today’s uncertainty means for developers and investors. From policy risks and central bank moves to sector-specific trends in industrial, multifamily, retail, office and data cen...

In this special episode, NAIOP Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Shaine Anderson, CAE, explores how technology is transforming commercial real estate in partnership with CREtech. She’s joined by three industry leaders – Carrie Denning Jackson, director of innovation and sustainability at Jamestown; Colin Joynt, senior vice president and chief information officer at BXP; and Will O’Donnell, managing partner at Prologis Ventures – to discuss how AI, data and emerging tech are...

Industrial real estate is evolving fast. In this episode of Inside CRE, Greek Real Estate Partners’ David Greek and Matt Schlindwein share insights on today’s investment climate and the headwinds shaping logistics real estate – from rising interest rates to shifting community sentiment. They discuss opportunities in small-bay, port-adjacent and cold storage products, how developers are adapting to higher costs and political pressures, and how their NAIOP involvement has shaped their careers. ...

On this episode of Inside CRE, we’re joined by Ada Healey, Chief Real Estate Officer at Vulcan Real Estate, recently honored as NAIOP’s 2025 Developer of the Year. Ada reflects on what this recognition means for the team and shares lessons learned since Vulcan first earned the award in 2013. She discusses how the company’s relatively small core team has delivered more than 13 million square feet of transformative projects, guided by values of prosperity, sustainability, urban vitality, and en...

In this episode, we welcome back Carey Heyman, managing principal for the real estate industry at CLA. Carey breaks down the newly enacted One Big Beautiful Bill Act and what it means for commercial real estate. He covers key provisions like 100% bonus depreciation, Section 179 expensing and business interest deduction relief, along with updates to the Opportunity Zone program, including rural investment incentives and expanded reporting requirements. Carey also shares strategies for bal...

Mark Roberts, managing director of research at Crow Holdings, joins the podcast to share his insights – from macroeconomic trends to individual asset classes. He sees current valuation lags in open-end funds as a rare investment opportunity and predicts inflation will fall below 2% by year’s end. Roberts remains optimistic about the economy, citing strong household balance sheets, business investment, and low credit spreads. He highlights opportunities in retail, moderate-sized industrial ass...

Former U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo delivered a candid assessment of the U.S. economy in her keynote remarks at NAIOP’s I.CON East conference in New Jersey last month: strong at its core but held back by what she called “self-inflicted wounds.” On this special episode of Inside CRE, you’ll hear Secretary Raimondo’s conversation with NAIOP President and CEO Marc Selvitelli, where she discussed the future of American industry and how strategic investment can help reshape the nation’...

In this episode, Moody’s Analytics Chief Economist Mark Zandi joins us to unpack the extraordinary uncertainty facing today’s economy – on par, he says, with the global financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing from insights shared during his keynote at NAIOP’s National Forums Symposium, Zandi discusses the weakening labor force, volatile economic policy, and growing pressure from tariffs and immigration shifts. He explores how inflation, interest rates, and consumer trends are affe...

In this episode, Melinda McLaughlin, Senior Vice President and Global Head of Research at Prologis, discusses the evolving state of global trade and its impact on logistics real estate. She highlights how trade disruptions, starting with tariffs in 2017 and intensified by the COVID...

Commercial real estate leaders Amy Curry, Chief Strategy Officer of Dermody; Ed Griffin, CEO, Griffin Partners; and Kevin Hardy, Head of Eastern Canadian Office, Oxford Properties; join us for a special episode to discuss the impacts of tariffs on the industry. In this candid ...

Christopher Thornberg, Ph.D., founding partner of Beacon Economics and recent I.CON West keynote, joins the podcast to parse the growing disconnect between economic data and public sentiment. While U.S. households are financially strong and consumer spending drives growth, this prosperity is propped up by an unsustainable government deficit and foreign capital inflows. Thornberg stresses the need for immigration-driven labor growth, explains how current spending is masking deeper fiscal risk,...

Scott Jennings started his political career licking envelopes in a campaign office but went on to work for campaigns at both the local and national level, including four presidential campaigns. The CNN senior conservative political commentator – and keynote speaker at NAIOP’s 2025 Chapter Leadership and Legislative Retreat – joins the podcast to share his views on political strategy, including what it takes today for a candidate to win, the two policy areas he believes drove Donald Trump back...

As the national director for office analytics, Phil Mobley leads the development of CoStar's house view of the office market. In this episode, he examines the office sector from every angle, highlighting the misconception of a simple “flight to quality,” explaining that both premium and affordable office spaces are thriving while mid-tier buildings face challenges. Mobley shares what he’s watching with the greatest interest over the next 12-24 months, discusses fragmentation in the sector, an...

Artist. Architect. Chairman. Philanthropist. Author. Lawrence Armstrong, chairman of leading international design firm Ware Malcomb, joined the firm nearly 40 years ago and served as CEO from 1992 to 2020. In addition to expanding the company from a Southern California firm to a national and international firm with 28 offices across North America, his tenure as CEO is hallmarked by an unprecedented 40x revenue growth. He talks candidly about the importance of succession planning, navigating e...

Is the era of tariff-free goods on the North American continent coming to an end? Shannon O’Neil, Senior Vice President and Director of Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and author of “The Globalization Myth: Why Regions Matter,” joins us for this especially timely episode. Shannon discusses how tariff uncertainty and shifting global trade patterns will impact commercial real estate markets across North America, the potential renegotiation of the USMCA, and Mexico’s growing role in ...

Opening our third season of Inside CRE, Christopher Ware, NAIOP’s Vice President for Business Development and Strategic Initiatives, speaks with Alex Thomson, founder of Prevail Consultants and 2025 NAIOP Chair. With two decades of experience in commercial real estate, Alex has gained expertise in every aspect of the business, spanning acquisitions, entitlements, development, financing and dispositions. Notably, he’s also NAIOP’s first Canadian chair. In this episode, Alex discusses his prior...

Aquiles Suarez, Senior Vice President for Government Affairs at NAIOP, has the considerable task of overseeing the association’s advocacy efforts at the federal, state and local level, and managing the association’s political action committee, NAIOP-PAC. In his signature candor, Aquiles shares with Marc his take on what Republican control of the White House and Congress means for the country and for commercial real estate, the impacts of tariffs proposed by the Trump administration, and the t...

Generational changes happening now are creating a fundamental shift in our society and the way people live and work, says Nikki Greenberg, a world-leading futurist focused on the trends and technologies shaping cities of the future. She joins NAIOP’s Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Shaine Anderson talk about the path that led her from licensed architect to futurist; the differences in motivating, training and retaining the next generation of workers; and five principles t...

David C. Smith is the head of Americas insights for the Cushman & Wakefield global think tank. He joins the podcast and puts in a pitch for the office sector, which he said is experiencing a reckoning similar to the “retail apocalypse” that made headlines back in the mid-2010s through 2020. David discusses topical office trends including reduced square footage per worker, flexible office configurations and the flight to quality. He explains the cyclical vs. structural headwinds faced by t...