217: Wealth-Building Real Estate Investments For Busy Professionals with Adiel Gorel

The real estate market in the United States is magical, but its citizens often miss out on the unique opportunities it offers.
On this episode of Zen and the Art of Real Estate Investing, Jonathan sits down with Adiel Gorel, founder and CEO of International Capital Group, a world-renowned real estate investment firm founded in the San Francisco Bay Area. Since 1987, Adiel has taught investors how to secure a strong financial future for college, business investments, and retirement. Adiel also operates in the wellness space.
Jonathan and Adiel begin their discussion by exploring Adiel’s unwilling exposure to real estate as a child. When he began his career in Silicon Valley as a young adult, he discovered the many benefits of the U.S. real estate sector, learning how to leverage the mortgage system to build wealth with rental properties. Adiel explains the fluctuation in interest rates since the 1980s, the benefits of buying today instead of waiting, and why inflation can be a positive for investors. You’ll hear about venturing beyond your local market for rental properties, his criteria for the markets he buys in, and Adiel’s personal decision to rent for 20 years before buying his own home.
The real estate market in this country is unique, and Adiel wants everyone to know what they could be missing out on by not taking advantage of the magic it offers.
In this episode, you will hear:
- Adiel Gorel’s introduction to real estate as a child and when he decided he wanted to pursue real estate investing as a career
- Leveraging the U.S. mortgage system to build wealth with rental properties and how interest rates have fluctuated since Adiel’s start in the 1980s
- The benefits of buying today versus waiting for interest rates to fall
- The miraculous real estate market in the U.S. that its citizens often miss
- Why inflation can be a positive for real estate investors
- Adiel’s refusal to retire
- Buying rentals outside of your local market for better deals and where Adiel looked outside of his home state of California
- How he began helping a group of coworkers buy homes where he was buying them
- His criteria for buying a particular market
- Adiel’s decision to rent for 20 years as an investor before buying his own home
- Why you are never too old to invest in real estate and the advice he gives to new investors
- One of the worst mistakes investors can make
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Supporting Resources:
Adiel Gorel’s website - adielgorel.com
Adiel’s YouTube channel - www.youtube.com/@AdielGorel
Adiel on Facebook - www.facebook.com/Adiel.Gorel.Profile
Find Adiel on Instagram - www.instagram.com/adielgorel
Connect with Adiel Gorel on LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/adielgorel
Adiel’s TikTok - www.tiktok.com/@adielgorel
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- FrequencyUpdated Daily
- PublishedFebruary 17, 2025 at 9:00 AM UTC
- Length57 min
- Episode217
- RatingClean