Lusk Perspectives
64 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago -During a time of great uncertainty and change, connection and information is a more important resource than ever before. Today's problems could be amplified or completely altered in a matter of days or hours, so it is vital that organizations and thought leaders frequently share knowledge, dispel rumors, and offer insight.
To meet this need, the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate launches the resource Lusk Perspectives.
Hosted by Professor and Lusk Center Director Richard K. Green in the style of longform videos or podcasts, Lusk Perspectives offers timely analysis and shares accurate data vetted by leading experts on the latest developments and observations concerning COVID-19.
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2024 Or Bust: The Economy, The Fed, And Fiscal Policy
March 13, 2024 17:23 - 53 minutes - 74.4 MBHow will the US economy perform in 2024? Claudia Sahm (Founder, Sahm Consulting) joins Richard K. Green (Director, USC Lusk Center for Real Estate) to discuss the US economy’s recovery from COVID along with additional shocks and infer the implications of the Federal Reserve’s playbook for 2024. Sahm’s key points: - The US economy undeniably turned a corner in 2023 - The US recovery remains stronger than its peer countries - The Federal Reserve will continue their conservative...
U.S.-China Relations
February 27, 2023 17:38 - 58 minutes - 80.6 MBClayton Dube (Director, USC U.S.-China Institute) joins Richard K. Green (Director, USC Lusk Center for Real Estate) to discuss the condition of U.S.-China relations and the latest developments in China’s global influence on trade, supply chain issues, technology, and more. Dube highlights a challenge Chinese officials are watching closely in the coming years: stalling economic growth. To approach the “middle-income” problem, Dube notes the ways in which the government has both relaxed and t...
2023 Global Economic and Market Outlook
December 14, 2022 20:39 - 1 hour - 83.4 MBJoyce Chang (Managing Director & Chair of Global Research, JPMorgan Chase & Co.) delivers an overview of global economic trends to watch heading into 2023 and beyond. In the near term, Chang sees a mild recession taking effect in late 2023, with a true “soft landing”, as identified by the Federal Reserve, being unlikely. She notes that overall cycles may be shorter, with a likelihood of 4-year recessions rather than the historic 8 or 10, and markets that rally faster to regain losses. In...
2022 Casden Multifamily Forecast Report
December 07, 2022 23:26 - 47 minutes - 65.8 MBLusk Director Richard K. Green delivers highlights from the 2022 Casden Multifamily Forecast. Before Green gives a breakdown of Southern California multifamily real estate markets, he pauses to discuss four uncertainties impacting the region. Inflation, interest rates, net migration, and the impending recession are all top-of-mind issues that could dilute the forecast’s potency should any of the factors take a dramatic rise or dip. As for the forecast, Green reviews historical and foreca...
Leadership and Rethinking Work
September 20, 2022 20:58 - 58 minutes - 80.6 MBAn industry panel discusses the changing dynamics of office work in real estate and beyond. By now, it’s apparent that some version of remote work is here to stay for a dominant number of firms. Remote and hybrid work can solve serious employee issues like flexibility, commute times, and even productivity. However, the new work arrangements are not without drawbacks. Moderator Mary Lynne Boorn (Associate Professor, USC Sol Price School of Public Policy) invites Allison Lynch (Compass Ven...
Are Appraisals and Assessments Biased?
August 25, 2022 19:11 - 59 minutes - 81.6 MBRacial bias in home appraisals and assessments is not just an anecdote. Norm Miller (Hahn Chair & Professor of Real Estate Finance, University of San Diego and Vice President, Homer Hoyt Institute), Ruchi Singh (Assistant Professor, University of Georgia), and Richard K. Green (Director, USC Lusk Center for Real Estate) discuss the statistically significant racial and ethnic biases in appraisals and tax assessments. Miller details the benefits of automated valuation models, but he also cau...
ADU Construction Financing: Opportunities to Expand Access for Homeowners
July 22, 2022 05:20 - 1 hour - 108 MBIndustry practitioners in lending and policy discuss the research and recommendations in the recently released paper “ADU Construction Financing: Opportunities to Expand Access for Homeowners.” The joint paper, produced by the UC Berkeley Terner Center for Housing Innovation and the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate, compiles national data and stakeholder interviews to provide a picture of the hurtles to financing and what barriers could be removed to bring ADU construction to scale. I...
Geopolitics, Monetary Policy and Real Estate
May 12, 2022 17:50 - 58 minutes - 80.4 MBRichard Green (Director, USC Lusk Center for Real Estate) delivers a presentation on how the ongoing conflict in Ukraine could impact the global economic trajectory as many countries, including the United States, attempt to cool inflation without triggering a recession. Green dives into more specific factors contributing to the USA’s resiliency or vulnerability to global economic shocks. He shares data on why Cap Rates are likely to increase in the future, the trends economists look for wi...
Getting Stuff Done - A Different Approach to Solving Problems in Los Angeles
April 28, 2022 21:31 - 57 minutes - 79 MBAustin Beutner (Founder and Chair, Vision to Learn) joins Richard Green (Director, USC Lusk Center for Real Estate) for a discussion on what it takes to accomplish real change in Los Angeles. Beutner asserts that the twin forces of leadership and governance have the power to solve many of the ongoing and intensifying issues in the county like homelessness, education, and land use. As Superintendent of LAUSD during the pandemic, Beutner oversaw unprecedented responses like providing fr...
Rethinking Health Policy in America
April 06, 2022 23:06 - 1 hour - 55.4 MBDana Goldman (Dean, USC Sol Price School of Public Policy) joins Richard K. Green (Director, USC Lusk Center for Real Estate) to provide a look into how the economics of health care contribute to decisions about health policy and the strides that medicine is still making to close gaps in access to care. Pulling from a variety of case studies, Dean Goldman shows why markets don’t always work in providing the most cost-efficient care, the economic balance between encouraging innovators and e...
Economic Outlook For 2022 & The Fed’s New Framework
February 03, 2022 23:54 - 58 minutes - 53.1 MBClaudia Sahm (Director, Macroeconomic Research, Jain Family Institute) joins Richard K. Green (Director, USC Lusk Center for Real Estate) to look at the US Economy and how the Federal Reserve is responding to inflation, unemployment, and interest rates. Sahm cites that the big picture points to economic recovery, especially while the Fed incorporates the principle lesson of the 2008-2009 financial crisis: remove support gradually or risk a stalled recovery. With appointments incoming, Sahm...
2021 Casden Multifamily Forecast Report
November 19, 2021 18:23 - 28 minutes - 25.9 MBRichard K. Green (Director, USC Lusk Center for Real Estate) highlights data and analysis from the 201 Casden Multifamily Forecast Report. Before Green dives into forecasted rent, vacancies, and deliveries for Los Angeles, Inland Empire, Orange County, San Diego and Ventura submarkets, he offers an economic context for where Southern California stands. In the context discussion, Green delivers insights into what’s happening with the supply chain in the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, ...
How PropTech is Shaping the Future of Real Estate
October 04, 2021 16:23 - 59 minutes - 54.5 MBRichard K. Green (Director, USC Lusk Center for Real Estate) moderates a discussion on the growing opportunities PropTech brings to the real estate industry. Travis Putnam (Founder and Managing Partner, Navitas Capital) provides perspective on the overall momentum of venture capital in the space while Ashley Colella (Senior Product Manager, HqO) and Tyler Scriven (Founder and CEO, Saltbox) offer on-the-ground applications to some of the ways that technology is improving the relationship be...
Recovery of Retail
June 24, 2021 19:04 - 59 minutes - 54.9 MBRachel Elias Wein (Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Wein Plus) joins Richard K. Green (Director, USC Lusk Center for Real Estate) to discuss the retail sectors returning as states continue to reopen and vaccine rates climb. Wein traces the pandemic’s impact on retail, including growth in grocery delivery, pet stores, and ecommerce as well as areas that struggled like malls and mid-sized brands. As for the future of retail, Wein notes that an overall decrease in restaurant sales towards low...
Casden Spring 2021 Multifamily Forecast Report
May 19, 2021 21:08 - 56 minutes - 51.9 MBRichard K. Green (Director, USC Lusk Center for Real Estate) delivers new data from the Casden Spring 2021 Multifamily Forecast Report. Despite outmigration, California housing prices are still climbing, indicating that the state remains a desirable destination for many. However, California's lack of multifamily housing production remains concerning as sunbelt states with more robust construction pipelines like Texas, Arizona, and Nevada continue to siphon off California residents. Green als...
Living With COVID
May 19, 2021 18:09 - 56 minutes - 51.5 MBNeha Nanda, MD (Medical Director of Infection Prevention and Antimicrobial Stewardship, Keck Medicine of USC) is joined by Scott B. Laurie (President and Chief Executive Officer, The Olson Company) and Richard K. Green (Director, USC Lusk Center for Real Estate) to discuss the ongoing recovery efforts from COVID-19, how organizations might manage returning to the office, and when everyday life has a chance of achieving a new normal. Nanda also reviews rules of thumb for mask-wearing as wel...
The Biggest and Smallest Barriers to California Housing Development
May 11, 2021 18:04 - 1 hour - 55.6 MBThe State of California’s Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO) estimated that 70,000-110,000 new housing units are needed per year to keep housing prices from rising faster than the national average. What are the most important barriers to new housing construction and what can be done about them? Scholars Evgeny Burinskiy (Ph.D. in Urban Planning and Development, USC Price), Lois Takahashi (Houston Flournoy Professor of State Government and Director, USC Price in Sacramento), and Richard...
A Sea Change in Economic Policy
May 05, 2021 18:18 - 59 minutes - 54.8 MBClaudia Sahm (Senior Fellow, Jain Family Institute) joins Richard K. Green (Director, USC Lusk Center for Real Estate) to outline the changes in economic policy as the Federal Reserve and Congress have reacted to the COVID-19 pandemic. Sahm, who was inside the Federal Reserve during the Great Recession and recovery, has since devised the Sahm Rule Recession Indicator to help policymakers and economists determine the start of a recession based on unemployment rates. Sahm points out that...
The Case for Medicare to Cover Home Safety Renovations
April 01, 2021 18:03 - 27 minutes - 25.4 MBOriginally recorded for “The Bigger Picture” podcast by the USC Bedrosian Center with host Oliva Olson. Falling is the number one cause of injury and the seventh leading cause of death in adults ages 65 and older. In the newly published “Breaking Down Silos to Improve the Health of Older Adults,” Richard Green (Director, USC Lusk Center), Patricia Harris (MD and Geriatric Medicine Specialist, UCLA Health), and Anthony Orlando (Assistant Professor in the Finance, Real Estate, and Law Departme...
Rebuilding Housing Post Disaster
March 25, 2021 22:29 - 1 hour - 55.9 MBLois Takahashi (Houston Flournoy Professor of State Government and Director, USC Price in Sacramento) moderates a panel of public and private stakeholders on the roadblocks and success stories of rebuilding housing after fire in California, including Dave Sanson (CEO, DeNova Homes), Geoffrey Ross (Deputy Director, Financial Assistance -- Federal Programs, California Department of Housing and Community Development) and Dan Dunmoyer (President and CEO, California Building Industry Association)...
The Future of Cities, Remote Work, and Return to the Office
March 08, 2021 19:07 - 33 minutes - 30.3 MBThough the end of the pandemic may seem in sight, many questions remain regarding which trends of the past year are permanent. Edward Glaeser (Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University) and Richard Florida (Professor, School of Cities and Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto and Co-Founder and Senior Editor, Bloomberg CityLab) join Richard Peiser (Michael D. Spear Professor of Real Estate Development, Harvard University) and...
What Real Estate Can Learn from The Tech Industry
March 01, 2021 18:03 - 52 minutes - 48 MBBrad Hargreaves (Founder and CEO, Common) joins Richard Green (Director, USC Lusk Center for Real Estate) to discuss how COVID-19 has impacted product typologies of co-living and the role tech plays in managing multifamily properties. As it varies across the industry, Hargreaves lays out Common’s definition of co-living that distinguishes itself from visions of student housing or roommate matching and management. While co-living makes up a portion of Common’s management portfolio, Harg...
Fireside Chat with Lusk Chair and Vice Chair
February 09, 2021 19:35 - 40 minutes - 37.1 MBWilliam A. Witte (CEO, Related California and Chair, USC Lusk Center for Real Estate) and Nadine Watt (CEO, Watt Companies and Vice Chair, USC Lusk Center for Real Estate) joins Richard Green (Director, USC Lusk Center for Real Estate), to discuss their perspective on the broad trends and challenges facing real estate and urban economics in 2021. The leadership offers viewpoints on California outmigration, how rents are changing in unexpected ways as consumers respond to COVID, and the pot...
Addressing Land Loss for Underserved Americans
December 18, 2020 19:27 - 50 minutes - 46.3 MBDana Goldman (Interim Dean, Price School of Public Policy and Director, USC Schaeffer Center) hosts Richard Green (Director, USC Lusk Center for Real Estate) and Thomas Mitchell (Macarthur Fellow and Co-Director, Program in Real Estate and Community Development Law, Texas A&M) in a conversation about Mitchell’s work on attempting to rectify the many ways that Black and other disadvantaged American families are deprived of their real estate wealth. Upon the passing of a land-owning family m...
Long Run Effects of Quantitative Easing
December 16, 2020 21:04 - 40 minutes - 37.4 MBRodney Ramcharan (Professor of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business) joins Richard K. Green (Director, USC Lusk Center for Real Estate) to look back at 2009 and the quantitative easing used to inject money into the US economy during the financial crisis. Ramcharan shows that the effects of government intervention in the economy can last a long time, up to six years, with refinance activity providing a key indicator for a business’s future health. Green and Ramcharan di...
Valuation - How Do You Value In Times Like This?
December 07, 2020 22:50 - 46 minutes - 42.4 MBAn excerpt panel from the Casden 2020 State of the Market conference. John W. Loper (Associate Professor, USC Sol Price School of Public Policy) hosts a discussion with industry practitioners George Koiso, MAI (Director, Los Angeles Multifamily Practice Leader, CBRE Valuation & Advisory Services), Jaime Lee (Chief Executive Officer, Jamison Realty, Inc.), and John Pawlowski (Senior Analyst, Residential, Greenstreet Advisors) on how valuation works today as COVID continues to influence the ma...
Distressed Debt and the K-Shaped Recovery
November 18, 2020 18:38 - 38 minutes - 35 MBSean Armstrong (Managing Principal, Westport Capital LLC) joins Richard Green (Director, USC Lusk Center for Real Estate) to discuss highlights from his career, his views on acquiring distressed debt, and how COVID could impact the industry. Though the K-shaped recovery will likely be a general trend going forward, Armstrong sees the recovery playing out in very focused markets with multiple intersecting factors including region, product type, COVID progress, and consumer behavior. Green ask...
COVID-19 and Renter Distress
November 13, 2020 20:54 - 1 hour - 55.2 MBRichard Green (Director, USC Lusk Center for Real Estate) is joined by Michael Lens (Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs), Michael Manville (Associate Professor of Urban Planning, UCLA Luskin), and Paavo Monkkonen (Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy, UCLA Luskin) to discuss their joint study on renter distress during the COVID-19 crisis. Among its many findings, the study illustrates that though many households ar...
Demystifying Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities
October 26, 2020 22:55 - 48 minutes - 44.5 MBRoy March (CEO, Eastdil Secured) discusses the ins and outs of Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities (CMBS) with Richard Green (Director, USC Lusk Center for Real Estate). Starting with the history of how CMBS was born out of the Savings and Loan Crisis in the late 1980s and how it gained ground after the 2008 crisis by providing much-needed liquidity, the conversation covers a wide range of the market. March offers insights and observations on how a global aging population focused on long-t...
Election Talks: Breaking Down CA Prop 2
October 22, 2020 20:31 - 32 minutes - 30 MBRadio host and fourth-generation Angeleno Larry Mantle and policy experts Gary Painter and Richard Green provide an overview of CA Proposition 21 followed by a discussion on their opposing views of supporting or opposing the initiative for local rent control. If approved, it allows local governments to establish rent control on residential properties that have been occupied for over 15 years. Additionally, it allows landlords who own no more than two homes to exempt themselves from such poli...
Prop 15 Discussion with KPCC Host Larry Mantle
October 16, 2020 19:43 - 31 minutes - 29.2 MBLarry Mantle (Host, AirTalk, KPCC) hosts a discussion regarding California Proposition 15. If passed on November 3rd, this will generate an estimated $6.5 billion to $11.5 billion annually for local governments and K-14 public education by creating a "split roll" property tax system that increases taxes on large commercial properties by taxing them at market value, without changing the assessed valuation process for other properties. Richard Green (Director, USC Lusk Center) briefly introduc...
The COVID Economy: Where Are We Now?
October 13, 2020 20:28 - 50 minutes - 46.2 MBDiane Swonk (Chief Economist, Grant Thornton) discusses where we’ve been and possibly where we’re going as the economy braces for more impacts from COVID-19 with Richard Green (Director, USC Lusk Center). Tracing the line back from January 2020 to the Fall, she overlays her concerns about COVID’s long term impacts on Millennials, Gen Z, Women in the workforce, and the ever-widening gaps in racial disparities. Green offers supporting evidence as well as questions regarding how the supply chai...
Analyzing Mortgage Market Risks
September 29, 2020 17:48 - 38 minutes - 88.1 MBLaurie Goodman (Co-Director, Housing and Finance Policy, Urban Institute) sits down with Richard Green (Director, USC Lusk Center) to discuss all things mortgage market including her success and key takeaways from analyzing asset classes in the 2008-2009 financial crisis, how she and her team created the housing credit availability index, the impact of both Dodd-Frank legislation and COVID-19 on the mortgage market. Additionally, Goodman offers data-based observations on credit evaluation fl...
How Credit Scores Are Built and Used
September 17, 2020 23:19 - 43 minutes - 60.2 MBAmy Cutts (President, AC Cutts and Associates LLC) details how credit scores are built, what factors and variables may contribute to how they are evaluated, how credit scores from FICO and others have evolved, and the limits to the formulas and data used in building the models that provide credit scoring. Richard Green (USC Lusk Center for Real Estate) asks questions about how debts differentiate in the calculations, the issues with using outdated FICO scoring models, and what can be done re...
Investing in the Age of COVID
September 03, 2020 16:11 - 58 minutes - 134 MBNela Richardson (Principal, Investment Strategist, Edward Jones) outlines the factors to consider in determining investment strategy and evaluating the economic outlook as the US continues to navigate impacts from COVID-19. Richardson covers how management of COVID-19 will shape the recovery, the shape of the overall recession, how past and likely future government stimuli help bridge gaps, and what a long-term growth perspective can do for resilient investing. Richard Green (Director, USC L...
State and Local Budgets
August 26, 2020 17:42 - 56 minutes - 129 MBLois Takahashi (USC Price Sacramento) moderates a discussion on how COVID-19 is impacting state and local budgets with Tracy Gordon (Urban Institute) and Carolyn Coleman (League of California Cities). Gordon outlines the nationwide declines in revenue are dramatic and could take up to 10 years for unemployment to fully recover. Coleman’s focus on the local picture illustrates that across the board, cities of all sizes are coming up against a variety of shortfalls in revenue and likely reduct...
Racial Justice and Economics: A Crucial Pairing
August 24, 2020 21:13William Spriggs, Professor in, and Former Chair of, the Department of Economics at Howard University and Chief Economist for AFL-CIO Richard Green, Director and Chair of the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate and Chair of the Department of Real Estate Development Dana Goldman, Interim Dean, USC Sol Price School of Public Policy and Leonard D. Schaeffer Director’s Chair, USC Schaeffer Center The USC Sol Price School of Public Policy presents virtual events that examine timely public policy...
Racial Justice and Economics: A Crucial Pairing
August 24, 2020 21:13William Spriggs, Professor in, and Former Chair of, the Department of Economics at Howard University and Chief Economist for AFL-CIO Richard Green, Director and Chair of the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate and Chair of the Department of Real Estate Development Dana Goldman, Interim Dean, USC Sol Price School of Public Policy and Leonard D. Schaeffer Director’s Chair, USC Schaeffer Center The USC Sol Price School of Public Policy presents virtual events that examine timely public policy...
ESG Investments and Real Estate
August 13, 2020 17:10 - 51 minutes - 117 MBBonnie M. Wongtrakool (Global Head of ESG Investments, Portfolio Manager, Western Asset Management) discusses the state and the future of ESG (environmental, social, governance) investments with Richard Green (Director, USC Lusk Center for Real Estate). Wongtrakool delivers relevant definitions of ESG, how ESG factors can determine long-term sustainability and viability of an organization or fund, and what trends are driving ESG growth. Green follows up with questions on what makes green bui...
Changing Typologies and Construction Innovations in Housing
July 29, 2020 18:36 - 52 minutes - 121 MBRick Holliday (CEO, Co-Founder, Factory OS), Janet Stephenson (Head of Building Platform Sales, Katerra), and Lucio Soibelman (Chair, USC Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering) join host Mary Lynne Boorn (Associate Professor, USC Price) in a discussion on changing typologies and construction innovation in housing. The panel brings experience and insight on shipping constraints, misconceptions of manufactured housing, education for builders and stakeholders, and how constru...
Fireside Chat with Lusk Leadership
July 24, 2020 17:10 - 57 minutes - 79.2 MBLusk Chairman Emile Haddad (CEO, Five Point Holdings) and Vice Chairman William A. Witte (CEO, Related California) join Richard Green (Director, Lusk Center for Real Estate) in a fireside chat covering a broad range of topics. The seasoned CEOs deliver insights on how COVID-19 has impacted their business and accelerated industry trends, what habits will stay in the adoption of remote work, the importance of a renewed focus on equity and inclusion in the real estate industry for both develope...
Property Values and the Future of Cities
July 23, 2020 16:59 - 1 hour - 84.5 MBChristopher Mayer (Co-Director, Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate, Columbia Business School) sits down with Richard Green (Director, USC Lusk Center for Real Estate) to deliver a presentation detailing how real estate valuation is changing, especially in relation to the economy as a whole, and what the near and long-term future of cities may be. Though there is much to be concerned about regarding rent collections and mortgages, Mayer points out that the key to real estate valuation is es...
Financing Perspectives - What’s Changed, What’s Here to Stay
July 15, 2020 18:35 - 52 minutes - 72.3 MBBird Anderson (Executive Vice President, Homebuilder Banking, Well Fargo Commercial Real Estate) provides updates and observations on the state of the current commercial real estate and homebuilding market. Anderson points out that despite record high unemployment, the market is strong, owing in part to the confidence buyers have that remote work will continue to play a major role in the work week. Builders may be cautiously optimistic, but Anderson insists no one anticipates current trends ...
International Relations and Global Market Overview
July 09, 2020 22:05 - 45 minutes - 62.6 MBColin Barrow (Investment Manager, former Leader of Westminster Council) sits down with Richard Green (Director, USC Lusk Center for Real Estate) to detail the state of affairs in Europe as both Great Britain and the European Union begin to navigate into COVID-19 recovery. Barrow points out that though GDP (Gross Domestic Product) has dropped considerably, businesses continue to float due to government intervention. Richard Green asks questions about the European outlook on state-run relief p...
Property Technology and Real Estate Markets
June 25, 2020 22:08 - 56 minutes - 78.6 MBConnie Chan (General Partner, Andreesen Horowitz) discusses how property technology, finance technology, and venture capital is impacting real estate during COVID-19 and beyond with Richard Green (Director, USC Lusk Center in Real Estate). They cover a broad range of topics including the long-term viability of virtual property sales, the difference between valuation and value, and if technology start-ups could ever disrupt real estate in the same way that travel was once impacted by drastica...
How to Safely Open Your Office
June 18, 2020 22:13 - 57 minutes - 79.2 MBDarius Lakdawalla (Director of Research, USC Schaeffer Center) joins Richard Green (Director, Lusk Center for Real Estate) to outline the value for universal screening for COVID-19, as well as the cost benefits and practical approach to pooled testing applied in businesses and schools. Richard Green asks questions regarding the challenge of children adopting masks, how evolving information impacts the public, and what Lakdawalla’s criteria would be for his children returning to school.
Single Family Forbearance and Multifamily Lending
June 11, 2020 23:31 - 55 minutes - 76 MBDavid Brickman (CEO, Freddie Mac) joins Richard Green (Director, USC Lusk Center for Real Estate) to deliver analysis on the state of US single family housing, multi-family housing, and GSEs (Government Sponsored Enterprises). Brickman points out that while the economic contraction has been dramatic since the onset of COVID-19, the data suggests that the economy is recovering with the help of Federal intervention. Richard Green brings up questions regarding the difference in urban vs suburba...
The Shape of the Recovery with Torsten Sløk
June 04, 2020 22:03 - 56 minutes - 77.5 MBTorsten Sløk (Chief Economist, Deutsche Bank Securities) joins Richard Green (Director, USC Lusk Center for Real Estate) to outline the three different factors that play into the future of finance, including the virus curve flattening, financial markets stabilizing, and the ultimate shape of the economic recovery. Green offers questions concerning US and China relations, how foreign investment in American real estate might change, and the difference between the finance structure of Europe ve...
Reflections on the Market with Mark Zandi
June 03, 2020 04:13 - 45 minutes - 42.1 MBMark Zandi (Moody’s Analyics) sits down with Richard Green about COVID-19’s impacts that are still to come. Green asks about Zandi’s views on office, retail, and housing real estate markets. Zandi and Green also share thoughts on how the supply chain might be reevaluated and modified, what employment trends the US is likely to see, and resilient cities in the near and long-term.
Commercial Real Estate Market Overview
June 02, 2020 17:29 - 55 minutes - 76.7 MBIndustry leaders Lisa Reddy (Prologis), David Dollinger (Dollinger Properties), Stanley Iezman (American Realty Advisors), Rachel Elias Wein (WeinPlus) join Lusk Director Richard Green to provide analysis and updates and analysis on commercial retail, industrial, and office spaces.