JackChat
JackChat
Beginning back in 1986, while a member of the Cohen Financial team, Jack authored “Financing Notes”. These blog-style articles cover opportunities in the Commercial Real Estate Finance Capital Markets, with a notes on entrepreneurialism, the business of business, and performance aspects of life according to Jack.
Now called JackChats, Jack brings his same assumptions, questions, and conclusions to disparate people across all walks of professional lives.
After 43+ years of acquiring skills, accumulating experiences, and developing relationships, Jack finds himself blessed with a perspective that some view as a strategic thought leader in the Commercial Real Estate Finance Capital Markets.
JackChat June, 2019
With all this talk about being “late in the cycle”; are you protecting your downside? IF you are protecting your downside, are you also taking measured growth bets in some structured relative sized manner?
JackChat May, 2019
Multifamily – Sector affordability is a concern. While rent growth and rising property values have position connotations, these trends are not sustainable.
JackChat January, 2019
2018 was a productive year. I hope that your 2018 was a good one; one full of health, happiness and prosperity. My format from October, though brief and written more in the form of “Soundbites” rather than “deep content”, seemed to go over well. As the feedback (thank you) was generally positive (easier and faster to read) I will follow the same format with this update.
JackChat October, 2018
Since my last blog in June, the year continues to be robust for most. With the sun and wind at our backs; transactions flourish. Hit ratios suffer given the competition everyone faces to find, capitalized, and recapitalize a deal; but everyone seems to be prospering nonetheless.
JackChat June, 2018
The old saying “I would rather be lucky than smart”; how would we ever really know which of the two drove our individual fate professionally?
JackChat May, 2018
I just came back from the Spring ULI Council Meeting in Detroit. After Council Dinner I had a conversation with my oldest son about a class he is taking for his MBA. He was talking about “Red Ocean and Blue Ocean” businesses.
Beginning back in 1986, while a member of the Cohen Financial team, Jack authored “Financing Notes”. These blog-style articles cover opportunities in the Commercial Real Estate Finance Capital Markets, with a notes on entrepreneurialism, the business of business, and performance aspects of life according to Jack.
Now called JackChats, Jack brings his same assumptions, questions, and conclusions to disparate people across all walks of professional lives.
After 43+ years of acquiring skills, accumulating experiences, and developing relationships, Jack finds himself blessed with a perspective that some view as a strategic thought leader in the Commercial Real Estate Finance Capital Markets.
JackChat June, 2019
With all this talk about being “late in the cycle”; are you protecting your downside? IF you are protecting your downside, are you also taking measured growth bets in some structured relative sized manner?
JackChat May, 2019
Multifamily – Sector affordability is a concern. While rent growth and rising property values have position connotations, these trends are not sustainable.
JackChat January, 2019
2018 was a productive year. I hope that your 2018 was a good one; one full of health, happiness and prosperity. My format from October, though brief and written more in the form of “Soundbites” rather than “deep content”, seemed to go over well. As the feedback (thank you) was generally positive (easier and faster to read) I will follow the same format with this update.
JackChat October, 2018
Since my last blog in June, the year continues to be robust for most. With the sun and wind at our backs; transactions flourish. Hit ratios suffer given the competition everyone faces to find, capitalized, and recapitalize a deal; but everyone seems to be prospering nonetheless.
JackChat June, 2018
The old saying “I would rather be lucky than smart”; how would we ever really know which of the two drove our individual fate professionally?
JackChat May, 2018
I just came back from the Spring ULI Council Meeting in Detroit. After Council Dinner I had a conversation with my oldest son about a class he is taking for his MBA. He was talking about “Red Ocean and Blue Ocean” businesses.