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Ep 1049: Predictions For The Industry for 2021-2022

On this episode of Weaver: Beyond The Numbers Real Estate Edition Podcast, hosts Rob Nowak, Partner, Tax Services at Weaver and Howard Altshuler, Partner-in-Charge, Real Estate Services at Weaver, talked about their predictions for industry trends for the rest of 2021 and into 2022. “If I had my sunglasses, I’d be putting them on because…

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Ep 1049: Predictions For The Industry for 2021-2022

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On this episode of Weaver: Beyond The Numbers Real Estate Edition Podcast, hosts Rob Nowak, Partner, Tax Services at Weaver and Howard Altshuler, Partner-in-Charge, Real Estate Services at Weaver, talked about their predictions for industry trends for the rest of 2021 and into 2022.

“If I had my sunglasses, I’d be putting them on because the future is bright,” Altshuler said. “Overall, the market is looking really well.”

Retail is recovering to a great extent, and people are getting out and about. We see hospitality is doing well, especially concerning non-business travel. Industrial/multi-family/single-family rental, and self-storage, that stuff never slowed down, according to Altshuler.

The lessons that were learned during the first portion of the pandemic might also come back to bear during the current Delta variant wave of COVID-19, according to Nowak. But, things might be different if there continue to be different and continuing variants.

“The industry had figured out, in many ways, how to adapt to the pandemic, which is why real estate sort of led the way in terms of economic recovery,” Nowak said.

One area they haven’t spent a ton of time on but dug into on this episode is single-family rentals, as they can bridge the gap of affordability between apartment buildings and folks who might not be able to afford a single-family home.

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Howard Altshuler is a Weaver partner whose work focuses on real estate. On Location Cubed, part of Weaver: Beyond the Numbers, he and Aaron Grisz talk with the people financing, building, valuing and shaping places. His MarketScale catalog moves between the numbers inside an investment and the realities around it: the cost of debt, a shortage of comparable transactions, the tradespeople needed to build, and the infrastructure that makes growth possible. The conversations put specialists’ experience into context for a wider real-estate audience.

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About the Experts

Howard Altshuler
Howard Altshuler

Partner · Real estate

Weaver

Howard Altshuler is a Weaver partner whose work focuses on real estate. On Location Cubed, part of Weaver: Beyond the Numbers, he and Aaron Grisz talk with the people financing, building, valuing and shaping places. His MarketScale catalog moves between the numbers inside an investment and the realities around it: the cost of debt, a shortage of comparable transactions, the tradespeople needed to build, and the infrastructure that makes growth possible. The conversations put specialists’ experience into context for a wider real-estate audience.

Rob Nowak
Rob Nowak

National Practice Leader, Tax Services

Weaver

Rob Nowak, CPA, leads Tax Services nationally at Weaver. He advises businesses and family offices on tax planning, with particular experience in real estate transactions, construction and flow-through entities. His work also covers succession planning and wealth protection for privately owned businesses. He holds a master’s degree in taxation from DePaul University and a bachelor’s degree in accountancy from Northern Illinois University. In Weaver: Beyond the Numbers and Location Cubed, Rob and Howard Altshuler bring specialists into the decisions behind a property: how it is financed, used, assessed and adapted. His MarketScale catalog also includes conversations with Tyler Kern about business-asset depreciation and discussions of the practical consequences of remote work. The original publication dates preserve the context of these historical tax and market conversations.

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