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In this episode of The Real Estate Podcast, Kevin Vandenboss speaks with Nitin Chexal, CEO of Palladius Capital Management
Kevin Vandenboss
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In this episode of The Real Estate Podcast, Kevin Vandenboss speaks with Mike Logozzo, CFOO of reAlpha
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Real Estate Expert at Benzinga
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In this episode of The Real Estate Podcast, Kevin Vandenboss speaks with Andrew Crebar, CEO of HoneyBricks
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Welcome back to Benzinga’s Real Estate podcast. Today we have Andrew Crebar who is the CEO of HoneyBricks
HoneyBricks is a real estate investment platform but it's quite unique compared to some of the others we've talked about before.

Kevin Vandenboss: Andy I would love to hear about how you got into the real estate space and then if you can just go into what HoneyBricks and try to give our listeners just a general overview of what this platform does and what's so unique about it. 

Andrew Crebar: Sure. And thanks so much for having me on today Kevin huge fan of your work and what your team does at Benzinga.

So I'm Andy I'm from Australia and I moved to the US in 2015. My real estate journey really started probably in my childhood. My dad was an architect who got me involved in real estate at a very young age. Used to take me around to building sites and taught me how real estate's both wonderful and important wonderful and it's spaces where people live work and play and important in that we're surrounded by it every day.

Every person interacts with it. And it's the main driver of our quality of life. He was very influential and helped me buy my first apartment. And I've been investing consistently in real estate since then and really seeing how powerful it is as a platform for wealth creation. Things really came together for me in recent years as new blockchain technology started to make its way into the mainstream bringing new efficiency access transparency and other benefits to a lot of different asset classes and real estate's really no different.

And my co-founder and I were talking about how can we give more people access to this great asset class of real estate with new technology that's being developed. So we got started earlier this year and have built a great team focused on really unlocking the potential of real estate.

So as far as your second question Kevin what is HoneyBricks? We help people invest in real estate with blockchain. And we do that through a two-sided marketplace for people that want to invest in real estate. And secondly for real estate companies or operators that want to fund their projects or tokenize their existin assets.

So for investors they get institutional quality real estate access through new modern technology. And for real estate operators they get access to new and diverse capital pool and all the benefits of tokenization. 

Kevin Vandenboss:Why bring that to real estate? To be honest is it just a like a gimmick to attract new audience?Or is there a real benefit to this? 

Andrew Crebar: We're just starting with tokenization. So tokenization it's the process of creating digital securities. So when something is tokenized the tokens represent the fractional ownership of that underlying asset. So the tokens really become tangible and more liquid representations of ownership.

Now tokenization is done through blockchain technology which is another word that can get thrown around in recent years. The blockchain's basically a shared ledger for recording transactions.. The big benefit of blockchain which is the same technology that powers cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum is really two things. One is trustless transactions and secondly is instantaneous settlement. And that's outside of just real estate that's really the benefit of what blo

In this episode of The Real Estate Podcast, Kevin Vandenboss speaks with Marc Minor, CEO of Higharc
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Marc Minor CEO of Higharc
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Kevin Vandenboss
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In this episode of The Real Estate Podcast, Kevin Vandenboss speaks with Marc Minor, CEO of Higharc
Kevin Vandenboss: Tell us a little bit about your company and what exactly you do.
 
Marc Minor: Thank you. So Higharc is a web platform for home builders. We automate a whole lot of different parts of the process of building and bringing home to market so that builders can offer better homes to home buyers.
Affordability is a really hard problem with new home construction because of the sheer amount of waste. That's hard to wrap your hands around. In the process. So there's something like 5% of every house. Um, in terms of its sales price, that's lost to avoidable waste. And that comes in the form of materials that you didn't need to order, or that were wasted on site as well as process delays.
 
So our software automates lots and lots for home builders across the whole cycle of building a house. And in doing that, we help them tighten up the operation and deliver better. 
 
Kevin Vandenboss: what got you into this space? what's your background? 
 
Marc Minor: Actually I came at it like a lot of folks who start technology companies out of personal experience and frustration.
 
So I was actually building a house and like most folks who experienced these, I was pretty frustrated with the lack of clarity.
 
lt’s very difficult to know what you're going to get before you get it, how much it's gonna cost. So I realized that a lot of the work I was doing in 3D printing in terms of the digitization of manufacturing actually could apply really nicely to home building.
 
Kevin Vandenboss: How have the adaptions been like?
 
Marc Minor: You probably know our industry is one of the least sort of advanced in terms of its adoption of technology.
 
Spends less than 1% on R&D compared to  3% to 5% in other industries that are similar. And it's not for lack of trying though. So most of the technology that's out there is 30 to 50 years old. We're one of the first platforms to come along that kind of delivers on the promise.
So we've seen actually a pretty significant interest across the board, not just from kind of the obvious, real large builders but also from very small mom and pop builders who are struggling to manage growth across the United States. 
So it's been really encouraging for all of us to see the interest in the industry in digitization, obviously housing prices skyrocketed and all of a sudden things are slowing way down. 
 
Kevin Vandenboss:What is the market  going to look like in the next 3, 5, 10 years? 
 
Marc Minor:The average time it takes to build a new house has gone up significantly over the last 2 years.
 
A lot of builders when they're doing well, they're looking at 90 to 120 days for a new home. My home, which is a custom home, took nearly 2 years. So, and there's a lot of reasons for that, but we're really focused on automation using technology, especially the web to replace paper and kind of manual tasks that gum up the gears of the entire process.
 
Home building's kind of death by a thousand cuts, buyers experience that too. There's not a silver bullet solution. It has to be a kind of holistic effort to clean up how you do business. And so that's where we step in on the process. And

In this episode of The Real Estate Podcast, Kevin Vandenboss speaks with Ryan Frazier, CEO of Arrived
Kevin and Ryan talk about:
Arrived Platforminvestments for non-accredited investors housing market crashshort term rental propertiessingle family home investmentsbest cities to invest in real estate
Guest:
Ryan Frazier CEO of Arrived
Host:
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Real Estate Expert at Benzinga
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Welcome to the Lazy Landlord podcast here on Benzinga today, we have Ryan Frazier, who's the CEO of the real estate investment platform Arrived.
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Kevin Vandenboss: So what is Arrived essentially?

Ryan Frazier: It's a platform that makes it easy for anyone to invest in rental properties. And the way that it works is that individuals can buy shares of individual homes starting from $100 to $10,000 or more, however much you want to invest in that property. And then Arrived, takes care of all the work of managing the property. So all of the, dealing with the property management or the rental operations for the asset. And the impact is that, investors can still pick and choose how they wanna build their portfolio of individual rental properties. They can invest, nearly any amount of capital that they'd like to and diversify across properties.

And then it becomes passive a investment from there with Arrived, taking care of the management.

 Kevin Vandenboss: What has been the demand been for investors that invest in these specific rental properties?

Ryan Frazier: I think that's been something that's been a surprise to us is just how remarkable the interest has been where we've had nearly 100k people sign up to invest in properties and buy shares of individual homes.
And I think we thought it might take longer for people to understand the concept of buying a share of a rental property. But I think because investing in fractional shares of stocks and other assets has become a bit more commonplace and more popular, I think people just have a place in their minds where they could understand.

They say “Ok, I can own a share of this property. I will get the proportional returns, cash flow from rental income or any property value growth based on the number of shares I own. And that gives me more control of how much I'm investing and being able to diversify.”

For myself and Arrived co-founders really our personal experience with wanting to invest in property has been the main driver.Through my mid-twenties to thirties, I really was just moving around.We were just never in the same place, long enough, where it made sense to, invest for 5, 10+ years, which is really what's required in real estate to overcome the kind of hurdle of the transaction costs to get any type of material returns. And so I had been questioning that for a while. 
Why does it have to be so binary that, you save up for multiple years for these down payments that are often six figures nowadays, and then you're committed to that city or that property forever or really for the long run.

And so that is the idea for Arrived. How do we look at these barriers that prevent people from getting started today in owning real estate? The capital, the time commitments, and the expertise required, and how do we lower the barrier to entry? So that, if you have time and expertise, but maybe not the amount of capital to diversify in as many properties as you want, Arrived can facilitate that for you.

You don't have time to invest in new markets and build up

In this episode of The Real Estate Podcast, Kevin Vandenboss speaks with Adam Kaufman, COO of ArborCrowd
Kevin and Adam talk about:
The Capital Investment into Single Family HomesMultiple Family Real Estate AppraisalsInvesting in real estate funds versus multi-family propertiesBuild to rent propertiesHow multi-family properties are valued
Guest:
Adam Kaufman, COO of ArborCrowd
Host:
Kevin Vandenboss
Real Estate Expert at Benzinga
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Welcome to the Lazy Landlord podcast here on Benzinga today, we have Adam Kaufman, who's the co-founder and COO of the real estate crowdfunding platform ArborCrowd.

Kevin Vandenboss: I would love to hear a little bit about that and how that turned into actually starting ArborCrowd.

Adam Kaufman: Thank you for having me here today, Kevin I'm I'm excited to be here.

I have been around real estate, my entire life. Some could argue that it's in my blood. My father, he's a serial entrepreneur in the commercial real estate space. He is the chairman and CEO of a publicly-traded real estate investment trust our Realty Trust. They offer financing solutions, and mortgage solutions for sponsors and borrowers in the multi-family space.

In particular, my family members work in real-estate. It was always talked about around the dinner table almost every night growing up. So it was just a part of me.

Kevin Vandenboss: What really inspired you to get ArborCrowd going?

Adam Kaufman: I think it's really the entrepreneurial nature that I grew up in and around that, that my father has been really exhibiting.

Something called the jobs act was passed in 2012 and 2013 that jumpstarted the business startups act, and it had a lot of different effects on the world. But what it did for real estate and crowdfunding in general, was eliminate the prohibition of general solicitation to invest in opportunities.

So prior to that, you had to have somebody in your role at X before you could reach out to them to solicit investment. For the first time now you did not, you could go more broadly online and through the access of technology and the reach of technology you could actually solicit people to make investors.

At that time, I was, watching this very closely as it was happening. I was actually working in DC at the time and was very aware of it. And our entrepreneurial background led to the understanding that all of a sudden, there was going to be a whole new investor class that was going to come online to access real estate investment opportunities.

And we wanted to take advantage of that and provide that opportunity. Knowing that we have so much experience in the market and so much access and partnership.

Kevin Vandenboss: What makes ArborCrowd stand out from others?

Adam Kaufman: Firstly, I think it's important to note that anybody could be a commercial real estate crowdfunding platform. What does that mean? You can create an investment, and create a website to find the investment and post it online. It's really as simple as that. And at the end of the day, I think that the environment in which we operate and live in needs a lot more structure and regulation.

And that's something that I've been talking about since the inception, but more specifically to your question, there are a lot of different models out there. There are a lot of more serious players out there. But with that said, we all operate very differently. One of the things that we do first and foremost is identifying ourselves as a real estate company, not a technology company. We hav