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Investment Matters: Building Bridges to CRE Finance
In 2018, Brian Walter co-founded Fairbridge Asset Management with about $3 million raised from family and friends. It was a modest start, but Walter already had plenty of tools in his toolkit. He knew how to run a company, and he’d spent decades building his expertise in fields ranging from institutional credit trading and leveraged finance to managing a family office.
Fast forward to today, and Fairbridge Asset Management, has originated about $1.6 billion on loans and manages $800 million in assets. In this episode, Walter recounts how Fairbridge found its sweet spot in a space that’s below the multibillion-dollar asset managers, he puts it.
You’ll hear why he believes that real estate finance and investment isn’t only financially rewarding—it’s also an opportunity to contribute to the public good.
We also spent a lot of time talking about the dynamics of the real estate capital markets and the challenges of getting deals done. Just a note about the timing of this episode. It was recorded before the Federal Open Market Committee raised the federal funds rate in September, so at the time of this conversation, we still didn’t know what the Fed was going to do.
But Brian’s expectations about the rate hike turned out to be spot on, and his predictions about the impact on real estate finance and investment are insightful, too. Take a listen.
15 Oct 2026
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 Encore Enterprises, Sangani finds himself downstream and upstream of what he refers to as American real estate's heart problem, which has resulted from changes in space usage and work patterns.
"Over a period of time, our footprints of the office space, the malls, et cetera, is getting smaller and smaller," Sangani said. "And, as it gets smaller and smaller, people have become very cost efficient and space efficient. And that has reduced our ability to walk a lot. That also has reduced our ability to have meeting spaces."
But research has shown that real estate has the power to improve people's health as well. Sangani and I discuss the study of architectural epedimiology, his health-minded investment approach and his prescription for the industry.
9 Oct 2026
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 Commercial Design Lab, Perkins&WillManaging Principal Robert Clemens joins CPE’s Beata Lorincz to discuss the future of New York’s life science sector, the challenges of commercial building conversions and the trends shaping the next generation of workplaces.
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