The Best Ever CRE Show

On this episode of Best Ever CRE, Joe Cornwell interviews Phillips Wagner of Mill Street Partners. They dive into how Phillips is making ground-up multifamily and industrial development deals work in today’s challenging market, including creative land entitlement, vertical integration to control construction costs, and the use of steel framing to save on insurance and build times. They also discuss the importance of municipal incentives, the long-term outlook for DFW development, and advice for new developers looking to avoid common pitfalls. Phillips Wagner * COO and Partner * Say hi to them at * https://millstreetpartnersllc.com/ [https://millstreetpartnersllc.com/] vikingcapllc.com [https://cms.megaphone.fm/organizations/264edbf4-9098-11ef-85d9-33246586acfd/podcasts/8ecb114c-9ad0-11ef-97a4-3b64c6112677/episodes/vikingcapllc.com] Join the Best Ever Community  The Best Ever Community is live and growing - and we want serious commercial real estate investors like you inside. It’s free to join, but you must apply and meet the criteria.  Connect with top operators, LPs, GPs, and more, get real insights, and be part of a curated network built to help you grow. Apply now at www.bestevercommunity.com [http://www.bestevercommunity.com/] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

On this episode of the Best Ever CRE Show, Joe Fairless interviews AI-savvy investors Paul Hopkins, Perry Zheng, Lance Pederson, and Bo Barron to explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping commercial real estate acquisitions. The panel shares practical tools—like Google’s Notebook LM, ChatGPT, AI21, and Claude—and strategies for deal analysis, underwriting, parsing PDFs, and even creating custom GPTs to automate offering memorandum reviews. They discuss how AI streamlines market research, transforms spreadsheets into semantic data, and helps underwrite deals more accurately and efficiently, while also acknowledging its limits in replacing human decision-making and deal sourcing relationships. Paul Hopkins * COO and Partner * https://cpicapital.ca/ [https://cpicapital.ca/] Perry Zheng * Founder and CEO * https://www.cashflowportal.com/ [https://www.cashflowportal.com/] Lance Pederson * CEO and Co-Founder * https://www.passiveadvantage.com/ [https://www.passiveadvantage.com/] Bo Barron * CEO * https://barroncommercial.com/ [https://barroncommercial.com/] vikingcapllc.com [https://cms.megaphone.fm/organizations/264edbf4-9098-11ef-85d9-33246586acfd/podcasts/8ecb114c-9ad0-11ef-97a4-3b64c6112677/episodes/vikingcapllc.com] Join the Best Ever Community  The Best Ever Community is live and growing - and we want serious commercial real estate investors like you inside. It’s free to join, but you must apply and meet the criteria.  Connect with top operators, LPs, GPs, and more, get real insights, and be part of a curated network built to help you grow. Apply now at www.bestevercommunity.com [http://www.bestevercommunity.com/] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

On this episode of The Horizon, John discusses his takeaways from the conference he just attended, emphasizing the resilience of commercial real estate amidst economic uncertainty. He highlights positive investor sentiment, particularly around multifamily, medical office, and necessity-based retail assets, while noting caution about tariffs, stagflation risks, and global trade impacts. John also dives into demographic trends favoring long-term rental demand, especially among millennials, and stresses the Midwest’s emerging strength in rent growth and limited new supply compared to oversaturated Sunbelt markets. vikingcapllc.com [https://cms.megaphone.fm/organizations/264edbf4-9098-11ef-85d9-33246586acfd/podcasts/8ecb114c-9ad0-11ef-97a4-3b64c6112677/episodes/vikingcapllc.com] Join the Best Ever Community  The Best Ever Community is live and growing - and we want serious commercial real estate investors like you inside. It’s free to join, but you must apply and meet the criteria.  Connect with top operators, LPs, GPs, and more, get real insights, and be part of a curated network built to help you grow. Apply now at www.bestevercommunity.com [http://www.bestevercommunity.com/] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

On this episode of Best Ever CRE, Slocomb Reed interviews Stephen Predmore, an engineer-turned-investor and owner of Talbot Investments. Stephen shares his journey from small single-family rentals in Baltimore to JV, LP, and co-GP multifamily positions across the U.S. He highlights key lessons from a challenging 33-unit JV in Alaska and contrasts it with a more successful, nearby JV in West Virginia. Stephen also explains why he chose to syndicate a 54-unit North Carolina deal and discusses his current focus on capital raising, targeting senior engineers for investor relations as he continues scaling with trusted operators in red states. STEPHEN PREDMORE * Owner * Based in: Baltimore, Maryland * Say hi to them at * https://talbottinvestments.com [https://talbottinvestments.com] vikingcapllc.com [https://cms.megaphone.fm/organizations/264edbf4-9098-11ef-85d9-33246586acfd/podcasts/8ecb114c-9ad0-11ef-97a4-3b64c6112677/episodes/vikingcapllc.com] Join the Best Ever Community  The Best Ever Community is live and growing - and we want serious commercial real estate investors like you inside. It’s free to join, but you must apply and meet the criteria.  Connect with top operators, LPs, GPs, and more, get real insights, and be part of a curated network built to help you grow. Apply now at www.bestevercommunity.com [http://www.bestevercommunity.com/] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

On this episode of Next Level CRE, Matt Faircloth interviews Lon Welsh, founder of Ironton Capital and seasoned real estate investor managing over $80 million in other people’s money. Lon shares how his journey began with house hacking and fix-and-flips before scaling into brokerage, syndication, and ultimately launching multiple real estate funds. They dive deep into market segmentation, the risk-reward spectrum of different neighborhoods, and why investor matchmaking is key. Lon also unpacks the future of office space, opportunities in low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) conversions, and the rising potential of extended stay hospitality and new multifamily construction. LON WELSH * Founder * Based in: Denver, Colorado * Say hi to them at * irontoncapital.com/ [https://irontoncapital.com/] * www.facebook.com/irontoncapital [https://www.facebook.com/irontoncapital] * www.linkedin.com/company/ironton-capital/ [https://www.linkedin.com/company/ironton-capital/] vikingcapllc.com [https://cms.megaphone.fm/organizations/264edbf4-9098-11ef-85d9-33246586acfd/podcasts/8ecb114c-9ad0-11ef-97a4-3b64c6112677/episodes/vikingcapllc.com] Join the Best Ever Community  The Best Ever Community is live and growing - and we want serious commercial real estate investors like you inside. It’s free to join, but you must apply and meet the criteria.  Connect with top operators, LPs, GPs, and more, get real insights, and be part of a curated network built to help you grow. Apply now at www.bestevercommunity.com [http://www.bestevercommunity.com/] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]