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Joseph Farkas

Joseph Farkas

CEO

Metropolitan Realty Associates

Rahul Idnani

Rahul Idnani

President, Dream Equity Partners

Dream Unlimited

Anar Chudgar

Anar Chudgar

Co-President

Artemis Real Estate Partners

Joseph Farkas

CEO

Metropolitan Realty Associates

Joe Farkas is CEO and Founder of MRA, a privately held institutional value investor and development company focused on office, retail and industrial properties in the NY Metropolitan area.

Rahul Idnani

President, Dream Equity Partners

Dream Unlimited

Rahul Idnani is the President of Dream Equity Partners, the private real

estate arm of Dream Unlimited, one of Canada’s leading real estate

companies with $9 billion of assets under management in North America

and Europe.

Prior to joining Dream, Mr. Idnani served as Global Chief Operating Officer

and Head of Portfolio Management with direct oversight of a $90 billion real

estate portfolio across various property types and investment strategies for

the firm’s institutional and retail clients. He also previously held senior

leadership positions at TIAA and was instrumental in the acquisition of

Nuveen Investments and build-out of its global real assets platform. Before

joining TIAA in 2013, Mr. Idnani held leadership and investment roles at

Voya Financial and Credit Suisse, respectively.

He graduated with a B.S., magna cum laude, in Finance and Economics from

New York University Stern School of Business. He is also a member of the

International Honor Society for Business Programs, Beta Gamma Sigma.

Anar Chudgar

Co-President

Artemis Real Estate Partners

Anar Chudgar is a Co-President at Artemis Real Estate Partners and sits on the Firm’s Investment Committee. She is head of the Income and Growth Fund and is responsible for developing and implementing the acquisition and asset management strategies. Ms. Chudgar joined Artemis in 2019.

Prior to joining Artemis, Ms. Chudgar spent 9 years as a Partner at GCM Grosvenor, where she helped co-lead the creation and growth of the $3.0 billion real estate platform, expanding the business in 2012 as well as growing the team. She has closed on $1.7 billion in joint venture real estate transactions in North America and Europe spanning both equity and debt, leading all aspects of investment management including transaction sourcing and execution, asset management, portfolio management and capital raising. Prior to that, Ms. Chudgar was a Principal in Alternative Investments at Credit Suisse Group AG, and held positions at Onex Real Estate Partners, iStar Financial, Inc., and began her career at JP Morgan Chase in investment banking.

Ms. Chudgar graduated magna cum laude from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and continues to be involved with the school. She is on the Board of Advisors of the Annenberg Center, a resource for the performing arts at the University.

Additionally, Ms. Chudgar serves as a board member for the Pension Real Estate Association and SparkYouth. She is also an active council member of the McCombs Real Estate Center at the University of Texas at Austin, New York Women Executives in Real Estate (WX) and the Urban Land institute’s UDMUC Green Council.

Summary

  1. Will the difficulty in valuations both in a physical sense and with the upheaval in the market restrict the ability to do deals?

  2. What are the critical components for getting a deal across the line?

  3. How do you conduct due diligence and assess rental and yield levels in the current environment?

  4. If investors and developers are out looking for capital right now, what do they need to know about the changing nature of underwriting and the current lending environment?

  5. What capital providers stand to benefit in this environment?