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Podcast: The Best Ever CRE Show
Episode: Real Estate Inflection Points, Interest Rates and Capital Allocation ft. Jon Brooks
Description: Pascal Wagner interviews Jon Brooks, who breaks down why today’s real estate market is sending mixed signals—and why getting that interpretation wrong can have real financial consequences. Jon explains how decades of falling interest rates created a powerful tailwind for real estate that no longer exists, especially in overbuilt Sunbelt markets like Florida.
The conversation explores what’s actually breaking versus what’s simply slowing down, including rising insurance and tax costs, declining affordability, demographic headwinds, and stalled migration. Jon also shares why he sold his entire personal real estate portfolio, pivoted into private lending, and ulti...