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Lauren Hochfelder

Lauren Hochfelder

Co-CEO & Head of Americas, Real Estate

Morgan Stanley

Nishant Nadella

Nishant Nadella

MD & Head of SASB & Transitional Lending

3650 REIT

Steven Fischler

Steven Fischler

Chief Investment Officer

RMWC

Gary Newman

Gary Newman

Managing Director

BrightSpire Capital

Jack Conboy
Moderator

Jack Conboy

Partner

Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf

Lauren Hochfelder

Co-CEO & Head of Americas, Real Estate

Morgan Stanley

Lauren Hochfelder is a Managing Director of Morgan Stanley, Co-Chief Executive Officer of Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing (“MSREI”) and Head of MSREI Americas. Lauren joined Morgan Stanley in 2000 and has focused on investing in the Americas since then. She has sourced, structured and executed principal investments across all real estate asset classes, transaction structures and return parameters. Lauren serves as a board member of The 92nd Street.

Lauren graduated magna cum laude and with distinction from Yale University with a BA in Ethics, Politics & Economics.

Jack Conboy

Moderator

Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf

Jack Conboy is a Partner with the law firm of Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf. He represents various financial institutions and real estate operators in connection with acquisitions, sales, financing and refinancing of commercial properties. He also counsels landlords and tenants in the leasing of commercial space. In addition, Mr. Conboy has experience in representing clients in the purchase and sale of residential real estate, including condominiums, cooperative apartments, and single and multi-family homes. Jack has been nominated to The Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch in the category of Banking & Finance Law, and has also been named to Super Lawyers - New York Metro Rising Star. He earned a JD from St. John’s University School of Law and a BA from Bucknell University.

What You Will Learn

Anticipated Talking Points

  • If we get a rate cut in September or an upcoming FED meeting, what specifically will change in the capital markets environment immediately following?  

  • What types of investors and lenders will be best positioned to start lending and investing? 

    • Debt funds, CMBS lenders, mortgage REITS, banks, brider lenders, mezz, etc

  •  How is this changing the role that debt funds, larger banks and mezzanine lenders are playing in order to get deals to pencil?

  • How do you foresee the buyers and sellers market changing over the next 6 months?

  • How do you anticipate any change in the lending criteria that lenders and GP/LPs are looking to make deals pencil?

  • From a debt perspective, what decisions are you all having to make about what percentage of a deal you are willing to lend on? Are you looking to underwrite rent growth into any deal structures in order to make deals pencil?

  • What types of assets have changed the most in values and how will this impact refinancing deals and how owners and investors navigate their exit strategies?

  • How has the typical loan structure changed during the last few months? 

  • As rates possibly change substantially in 2025, how do you think risk assessment will change across the commercial real estate sector?

How you'll do more business:

Gain timely and relevant information to how the commercial real estate industry is impacted by the potential rate cuts and what this means for new business opportunities across investing, financing, capital deployment and originations.

Who tunes in:

Investors, owners, developers, lenders, debt funds, banks, brokers and more. 

Why should you attend:

Bisnow events bring together the biggest power players in the industry to identify opportunities, build your network, and expand your business. With the largest audience of commercial real estate professionals in the world, no one knows how to help your business more than us.

For questions, recommendations, comments, or press inquiries please email our Director of New York Events, Chris Picher at chris.picher@bisnow.com. 

Agenda

Time Activity
5:00 PM
5:45 PM
Market Conditions & Their Impact on Deal Volume + Originations

1. Hear the latest about Federal Reserve's potential rate cuts and what this will do to cap rates and the overall interest rate environment.
2. Gain a better understanding what this shift could mean for commercial real estate investment, originations and capital deployment heading into 2025.

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