Thinking Bigger

Matthew Gottesdiener

CEO of Northland

Matthew leads Northland, a multifamily owner/operator with 25,000 units and $8bn of real estate, but unlike most of their competitors, a unique multi-decade fund model and no institutional investors (for now!). We’ll discuss how he has worked to reconcile Northland’s two decades of history before his joining in 2015 with his own ambitious goals for growing the platform, and lessons learned on apartment investing and operating at scale.

State of The Market

Kyle Matthews

CEO of Matthews REIS

With his hundreds of agents across 19 markets, Kyle is uniquely positioned to give us an up-to-the-minute briefing on who and what is selling, who’s buying, where, why, and how it’s all being financed. And, to make the conversation even spicier, we've drafted Nick Huber to have this conversation on stage with Kyle.

Building an Entrepreneurial Real Estate Career

Bruce Fairty

COO of Cypress Equity Investments

Bruce has navigated through a real estate game that has changed radically over the more than 40 years he's been playing it - and managed to build 35,000 apartments along the way! We'll discuss how he did that and where he sees opportunities for developers and other operators in today's market.

How He Did It

Strip Mall Guy

@realEstateTrent will talk completely off-the-record about his earliest sources of capital and how he managed those relationships, who he hired and when, why he chose to diversify his capital base and raise a fund, how he raised it, and the complexities inherent in managing it. He'll also share how being a popular “anon” account on Twitter has impacted his business.