On this episode, I interview Ben Miller, the CEO of Fundrise, discussing his revised perspective on the true property marketplace for 2024 and past.
The 12 months 2023 posed challenges for institutional actual property buyers, marked by 11 charge hikes and a big surge in mortgage charges for the reason that first quarter of 2022. In consequence, institutional actual property costs declined.
Ben believes October 2023 represented the low level for the true property market after experiencing 18 months of steady decline. His present optimism stems from an anticipated lower in rates of interest.
The next chart supplies a concise abstract of his viewpoint and outlook.

On this actual property market episode, we discover a number of key subjects:
- The reasoning behind Ben’s perception that October 2023 marked the underside, and the much less apparent indicators supporting this attitude.
- Understanding the motivation behind why some are promoting close to the underside
- The potential for utilizing one fund’s money to assist a deal through which one other fund is investing.
- Ben’s insights on investing in workplace properties at important reductions.
- Drawing parallels between e-commerce and the work-from-home pattern, highlighting the potential everlasting enhance within the worth of residential properties.
- Emphasizing the significance of investing in alignment with macroeconomic tailwinds, not headwinds.
- Discussing the potential proportion upside in institutional actual property costs for 2024 and 2025.
- Exploring the methodology for calculating the Web Asset Worth (NAV) of particular properties throughout the fund.
- Recognizing the non-linear nature of serious modifications and the significance of staying invested to learn from excessive catalyst moments.
- Reflecting on Ray Dalio’s perspective – “I might moderately be roughly proper than exactly mistaken” – particularly within the context of predicting year-end rates of interest.
- Contemplating the perspective {that a} recession is likely to be bullish for actual property as a result of potential fast and intensive decline in rates of interest.
You possibly can hearken to the episode on Apple, Spotify, or Google. Or you possibly can click on the embedded participant under. For those who hearken to my earlier episode with him, he was decidedly extra bearish.
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