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CPE Podcasts
by Commercial Property Executive
CPE Podcasts is a multi-series channel produced by Commercial Property Executive, exploring issues and trends across the U.S. commercial real estate industry. Find out more on our website: www.cpexecutive.com
Episodes
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Sustainability Street: Prescription for Heart-Healthy Buildings
Welcome back to Sustainability Street, our podcast on the intersection of commercial real estate and the world we live. For this episode, I'm talking about cardiac health and the built environment with Dr. Bharat Sangani. As a board-certified cardiologist and founder & chairman of Dallas-based...
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Commercial Design Lab: Perkins&Will's Robert Clemens on NYC Labs, Conversions and Workplace Design
New York City’s built environment is under increasing pressure to adapt to rapidly shifting demand. From life science and health-care conversions to workplace and retail design, flexibility is becoming increasingly important across the city’s commercial real estate landscape. In this episode of...
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The Learning Curve: Still Learning While Leading
CPE’s Mikayla Sciortino sits down with CenterSquare’s Rachel Gines to discuss the lessons, mentors and mistakes that shaped her path to leadership.
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FTI Experts’ Hub: Can Rescue Capital Solve Your Refinancing Gap?
As loans originated in a lower-rate environment come due, commercial real estate owners are confronting higher borrowing costs, lower valuations and, in many cases, refinancing gaps that can’t be solved with conventional debt alone. Office, hospitality and multifamily are among the property types...
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Step Into My Office: New York’s Flight to Experience
Office recovery continues to gain momentum in New York City and demand is spreading beyond newly built and extensively repositioned properties. The Plaza District has stabilized, activity around Penn Station continues to grow and demand is reaching Midtown South and the Financial District,...
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CREW Up: Is Hybrid Work Helping or Holding Women Back?
Flexibility can make a demanding commercial real estate career more sustainable, but the industry still runs heavily on relationship capital: client meetings, informal conversations and the “meeting after the meeting.” If visibility continues to influence who gets the best assignments, promotions...
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Sustainability Street: The Buzz About Beekeeping
Welcome back to Sustainability Street, CPE’s podcast on the intersection of commercial real estate and the world we live in. For this episode, I'm talking about urban beekeeping with Delaney Dameron, CEO of The Best Bees Company, which is based in Boston. Beehives on commercial rooftops are...
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Investment Matters: Frank Talk About Opportunity
Frank Forte was the kind of kid who was already fascinated by Wall Street by the time he was about 15. He was a whiz at math, and rather precociously, he also loved reading about options, derivatives and the market. But even back then commercial real estate was on his radar, too. After a few...
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RICS Monitor: North America Leads Uneven CRE Recovery
Global commercial real estate sentiment improved in the second quarter, but the recovery story remains far from straightforward. While some markets are showing clearer signs of momentum, others are still grappling with tighter credit conditions, geopolitical uncertainty and sharp differences...
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Sustainability Street: It's Go-Time for CRE
Welcome back to Sustainability Street, CPE’s podcast on the intersection of commercial real estate and the world we live in. With 2030 just around the corner, occupiers and property owners are under pressure to turn decarbonization strategies into operational realities. As Cushman & Wakefield's…
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Inside Industrial: Why Small-Bay Demands Discipline
Small-bay industrial continues to post tighter fundamentals than larger warehouse formats. Buildings under 100,000 square feet recorded an average vacancy rate of 4.9 percent in the fourth quarter of 2025, about half the rate for larger facilities, according to BKM Capital Partners’ latest Light...
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Investment Matters: Midsummer Market Snapshot
In this episode, Investment Matters host Paul Rosta discusses today's hot commercial real estate investment and capital markets trends with CPE Executive Editor Therese Fitzgerald. With all the moving parts in the market today, midyear is a good time to take stock of what’s really shaping...
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Step Into My Office: Orange County’s Tale of Two Markets
Orange County’s office market is moving from correction to recalibration. While the sector is still navigating the effects of right-sizing and post-pandemic occupancy shifts, CBRE’s latest report points to a market that is gradually finding its footing. With vacancy remaining relatively steady at...
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Sustainability Street: Is Nuclear Energy the Answer?
Welcome back to Sustainability Street, CPE’s podcast on the intersection of commercial real estate and the world we live in. For this episode, I'm talking about nuclear energy with Jon Lemmond, growth lead for sustainable operations, smart building services and energy engineering for real estate...
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Commercial Design Lab: Charles Bloszies on What Makes Building Conversions Work
Office-to-residential conversions continue to dominate conversations across commercial real estate, but not every building is a good candidate for adaptive reuse. From floor plate configurations and structural systems to government incentives and seismic upgrades, successful conversions depend on…
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The Learning Curve: A Lifelong Interest Becomes a Profession
MAA’s Associate Project Manager Jonathan Sinco sits down with CPE’s Mikayla Sciortino to discuss how a childhood dream became a career. From building towns out of Legos as a child to learning how to defend his design decisions in college, there is more that goes into becoming an architect in...
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Investment Matters: Stockdale Capital's Power Moves
My guest for this episode is really on the go these days. Dan Michaels is managing partner of Stockdale Capital Partners, and he’s leading a major growth initiative for the L.A.-based private investor. Recent highlights include the closing of a $700 million opportunity fund, the firm’s first...
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FTI Experts’ Hub: Funding the Onshore Manufacturing Push
As the push to bring manufacturing back to the U.S. continues, developers and investors keep are searching for ways to fund capital-intensive projects. But what financing tools might they be overlooking? In this episode of FTI Experts’ Hub, CPE Executive Editor Laura Valean sits down with McRae...
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Sustainability Street: From ESG to ROI
Welcome back to Sustainability Street. CPE’s podcast on the intersection of commercial real estate and the world we live in. While corporate America de-emphasizes "ESG," sustainability's role as a key financial lever in commercial real estate gets further cemented. My guest for this episode is…
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CREW Up: Why Women Still Face an Uphill Climb in Brokerage
Women now account for 31 percent of commercial real estate brokers in the U.S., up 10 percentage points over the past 15 years, according to CREW Network. While progress may feel slow, 2026 President Leslie Teskey sees reason for optimism. In this episode of CREW Up, Commercial Property…
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RICS Monitor: CRE Sentiment Steady on the Surface, Fragile Underneath
Global commercial real estate sentiment was broadly stable in the first quarter, but the headline numbers mask an uneven picture across markets, according to the latest surveys released by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in London. The war in Iran, higher energy prices, renewed...
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Investment Matters: CRE Capital With Cross-Border Clout
Ronald Dickerman says that real estate is part of his DNA. His family owned and operated apartment buildings in Boston, and when he was still a teenager, he’d spend Saturdays at those properties, vacuuming the halls and cleaning the pools. Back then he figured that he’d probably stick close to…
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Step Into My Office: Inside Denver’s Distressed Office Rebound
Distressed office buildings are becoming a defining part of the current market cycle, especially as higher vacancy, tighter lending conditions and slower demand continue to pressure owners. But distress does not always mean an asset is obsolete. In many cases, the challenge is financial, creating...
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Alternative Disruptors: Life Science Real Estate in Transition
Life science real estate has been widely regarded as one of the most resilient sectors of the property market in the U.S. After a surge in new construction that started during the COVID-19 pandemic, the sector is now faced with sharp-rising vacancies in some of the biggest clusters.Long-term...
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Sustainability Street: The Rise of Intelligent Buildings
Welcome back to Sustainability Street, CPE’s podcast on the intersection of commercial real estate and the world we live in. Smart buildings have gotten really smart. In this episode, R-Zero Chairperson & CEO Jennifer Nuckles and I chat about how intelligent buildings have moved from advisory to...
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Inside Industrial: Kansas City’s Build-to-Suit Wave
Kansas City’s industrial market has seen a meaningful share of new deliveries translate directly into occupancy, with build-to-suit activity playing an outsized role in recent absorption. In the third episode of Inside Industrial, JLL’s Kevin Wilkerson and Phil Algrim joined CPE’s Diana Firtea to...
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Investment Matters: Institutional Eye
When I want to get a handle on the big picture of commercial real estate investment, I always find it helpful to pick the brain of an executive from a global institutional investor. That’s why I jumped at the chance to sit down and talk with Mike Byrne, the chief investment officer & head of...
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Sustainability Street: Building With Less Carbon, Not More Cost
Welcome back to Sustainability Street. CPE's podcast on the intersection of commercial real estate and the world we live in. Not so long ago, addressing embodied carbon in construction project was thought to be cost prohibitive. Increasingly, that is not the case. My guests for this episode, are...
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The Learning Curve: From College to Career in Industrial Brokerage
In the inaugural episode of The Learning Curve, Kidder Mathews Senior Associate Tobias Hipp sits down with CPE's Mikayla Sciortino and shares his firsthand experience of what his career in industrial brokerage has entailed thus far and what has kept him going over the first few years.
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Commercial Design Lab: How AI Is Reshaping Architecture Workflows
The first episode of Commercial Design Lab, a new podcast hosted by CPE Senior Associate Editor Beata Lorincz, explores how AI is beginning to reshape architectural workflows, from early-stage design and zoning analysis to building performance optimization. Sandeep Ahuja, Co-Founder & CEO of...
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Investment Matters: From Tech Whiz Kid to Retail CEO
Sandy Sigal was a technology whiz kid long before it was cool. He was just 20 when his precocious skills earned him an invitation to modernize the accounting department for a homebuilding company. It wasn’t too long before he discovered that that he had a knack for real estate as well as for...
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Inside Industrial: Automation, Power & Proximity
Industrial real estate is being reshaped by a new set of operational and technological demands. As supply chains evolve and occupiers adopt automation, factors such as proximity, power availability and labor dynamics are becoming central to both facility design and investment strategy. In the...
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FTI Experts’ Hub: Why Property Valuations Diverge
At a time when capital markets remain volatile and fundamentals continue to shift, property appraisals are no longer a straightforward exercise. In this episode of FTI Experts’ Hub, Commercial Property Executive Senior Editor Laura Valean sits down with Mark Dunec, co-leader of Real Estate...
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CREW Up: Mentorship Isn’t Enough. The Case for Sponsorship in CRE
While gains have been made in areas like pay equity and flexibility, the commercial real estate industry continues to stall where it matters most: advancement. Women now represent roughly 38 percent of the workforce, a figure that has remained largely unchanged for two decades, according to CREW...
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Step Into My Office: How Quest Workspaces Scaled in South Florida
As the flexible office sector continues to evolve, hospitality, service quality and disciplined growth have become its backbone. That’s exactly the approach Quest Workspaces has been following since 2010, when CEO Laura Kozelouzek founded the company. Now, she operates 14 locations in Florida and...
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Alternative Disruptors: The 'All of the Above' Approach for Data Centers
After the U.S.'s nearly 20-year stretch of little to no electricity load growth, we’re now shifting into an age where new investments are needed to sustain the pace of demand from AI and hyperscale data center users. Current U.S. data center market trends point to ever-increasing levels of...
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Sustainability Street: Data Centers Reach a Crossroads
Welcome back to Sustainability Street, our podcast on the intersection of commercial real estate and the world we live in. For this episode, I am talking about data centers and sustainability with Suhail Tayeb, an investor, developer and the director of the Center for the Sustainable Built...
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Investment Matters: CRE Finance Maven
Lisa Pendergast leads one of the industry’s most influential organizations and is a top capital markets analyst to boot, but she discovered her professional passion almost by accident. An English major with her eye on law school, she was hired as a writer by a major institutional investor. The...
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RICS Monitor: Why 2026 Is a Market of Specific Opportunities
Commercial real estate sentiment is improving globally, but the recovery is far from uniform, according to the results of the latest surveys released by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in London. The Americas, led by the U.S., are seeing clearer signs of momentum, while parts of…
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Sustainability Street: Why Heat Is a Business Risk
Welcome back to Sustainability Street, our podcast on the intersection of commercial real estate and the world we live in. My guest for this episode is Savills Vice Chair Katrina Kostic Samen, who heads the company's Workplace Studio. She and I discuss "Heat and Humanity: Protecting People and...
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Investment Matters: Inside Mapletree's Growth Spurt
Over the past five years, it’s been a real rocket ship ride in the U.S. for Mapletree Investments. That’s the apt description of Rich Prokup, who leads US operations for the Singapore-based firm and is the guest on this episode. Under Prokup’s leadership, Mapletree has become one of the…
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Step Into My Office: Friedman Properties’ Reposition, Reimagine, Rebuild Take
After several years of hybrid experimentation, the office market is still in reset mode. Vacancy remains elevated, sublease space is reshaping availabilities, whereas tenants are rethinking every square foot. There’s a clear divide emerging between buildings that deliver a commute-worthy…
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Sustainability Street: COP30 Recap With Liz Beardsley
Welcome back to Sustainability Street, our podcast on the intersection of commercial real estate and the world we live in. My guest for this episode is Liz Beardsley, senior policy counsel for the U.S. Green Building Council. I spoke to Beardsley shortly after her return from COP30, the United...
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CREW Up: Inside Hilary Provinse’s Leadership Playbook
As the daughter of a Washington, D.C.–based real estate private equity executive, Hilary Provinse grew up around the industry, but her early career on a ‘90s Wall Street trading floor shaped her resilience and sharpened her leadership instincts. Today, as executive vice president and head of...
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FTI Experts’ Hub: From 2020 Office Forecasts to 2026 Realities
In this FTI Experts’ Hub podcast, we look back at one of the most pivotal moments in recent commercial real estate history—the early months of the pandemic—through the lens of two specialists from FTI Consulting’s Real Estate Solutions and Real Estate Advisory practices: Jahn Brodwin and Benjamin...
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Investment Matters: Flair for Open-Air Centers
On January 1, 2026, Jim Taylor will officially retire asCEO of Brixmor Property Group. In this conversation, recorded before his retirement was announced this fall, Taylor reflects on his long and eclectic journey in the industry. Over the past couple of decades, he’s traveled what he...
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Inside Industrial: Scale, Data & Decision Advantage
Industrial real estate is balancing short-term headwinds with long-term opportunity. While new supply and slower leasing are shaping near-term performance, e-commerce, manufacturing expansion and data center growth continue to drive structural demand. In this inaugural episode of Inside…
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Sustainability Street: Live From Greenbuild
Welcome back to Sustainability Street, our podcast on the intersection of commercial real estate and the world we live in. Last week, I attended the Greenbuild conference in Los Angeles where I got to sit down with Rhiannon Jacobsen, managing director of market transformation & development for…
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RICS Monitor: Global CRE Markets Move at Different Speeds
A year of mixed sentiment across global commercial real estate, with sharp contrasts between regions—this is the main takeaway from the latest Global Commercial Property Monitor released by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in London. While investor confidence is firming in markets…
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Alternative Disruptors: Right-Sizing Data Centers
It’s no secret that the proliferation of AI has propelled data center demand to new heights these past two years. This resulted in unprecedented pressure on the nation’s power grid, leading developers and operators in search of new solutions. In this environment, power availability is the most...
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