Say you were forced to go to a shop that specializes in one niche. I’m thinking acquisitions and less development but both welcome.
What are you picking? (aka class B multifamily, NNN industrial, suburban office, manhattan skyscrapers.. whatever you want)
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Media Studios. Interesting and niche asset class that can generate great returns, and grows based off different demographics than other factors.
Anything infrastructure-related is probably a good long-term strategy.
From the other end of the spectrum, hotels are generally more complex than other real estate sector. If you can underwrite a hotel, you should be able to figure out multi, office, retail, etc.
I work in Hotels and wouldn’t pick any other asset class to work in for my career.
Why? Curious to hear. I just built a hotel. Really don’t like the asset class.
I’m someone who gets bored really quick. MF and Office always felt very cookie cutter to me. I liked Retail but only had a very limited experience with it. Zero Industrial experience.
Hotels to me, are a different challenge day in and day out. I get exposure to the RE finance aide of things (recaps, refi, sales, etc.) while also dealing with operations/capex, interesting brands, and such outside your standard lease analysis. It’s way more interesting to me. Of course, all those brings a ton of headaches and I 100% understand why someone could hate the asset class.
Interested to hear your reasoning. I also love hotels and briefly worked in this niche for a couple years. Definitely requires someone to have a good foundation in design, finance, and creative thinking. Only downside is it's incredibly fast paced and there's so many moving pieces to hotels that it has quite a bit of a learning curve.
I don’t like 1-day leases. Also demand is so incredibly hard to forecast. Minimal stability and it is very cyclical. Also with multiple businesses under one roof - it is much more complicated than traditional real estate and the returns are not necessarily higher.
I feel this. I used to work in gaming and lodging group and really enjoyed the operational nature of hotels. Multiple profit centers. No chunky leases. Less deterministic. Etc.
I also enjoy hotels for the reasons noted above, but sometimes those same reasons make me wanna rip my hair out lol, at least on the development side
Manufactured housing
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Data centers.
Affordable housing. As an asset class, it's by far the most complex type of real estate development or acquisitions. Deals are rarely cookie cutter and there are a lot of political and regulatory nuances that simply don't exist for most other niche asset classes.
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