Antonio Marquez is the Principal and Managing Partner of Comunidad Realty Partners, a real estate investment firm specializing in workforce housing communities in culturally diverse neighborhoods. Antonio has over 20 years of experience in companies that serve the Hispanic marketplace and focuses on urban real estate and affordable housing. Antonio graduated from California Polytechnic – San Luis Obispo then completed the Stan Ross Program in Real Estate at the University of Southern California’s Lusk Center for Real Estate.

Michael Brennan is a Co-Founder, Chairman, and Managing Principal of Brennan Investment Group. He began his industrial real estate career in 1984 as an Investment Specialist with CB Commercial and since then has orchestrated more than $14 billion in industrial real estate transactions in the course of his career. Michael currently acts as Executive Director of the University of Wisconsin’s James A. Graaskamp Center for Real Estate in addition to appearing as an industry expert CNBC, CNNfn, and Bloomberg Television.

Listen in as our CEO, Jilliene Helman, converses with Antonio and Michael about the strategies for responding to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. These two industry experts share their experiences and opinions of how the health crisis is affecting residential and commercial real estate and the programs they have in place to manage current issues on the ground. The conversation also turns to how Comunidad Realty and Brennan Investments are dealing with the constantly evolving legislation and how both companies see their sectors being affected by the pandemic through the remainder of 2020.

“By no means has transactional activity come to a halt - banks are stronger than they’ve ever been and are now so strong they could withstand losses equal to that of the Great Depression and still make it.” - Michael Brenner

This week on The Reality Mogul Podcast:

• How Comunidad Partners are formulating a holistic rent relief planning strategy
• How to put in place measures around expense containment in the multi-family sector
• Comunidad Realty’s nonprofit scheme and how they are working to support residents through the crisis
• Preparation to manage rent relief for tenants and management
• How Brennan Investment Group is weathering the storm of the pandemic
• How Michael’s company is looking after their workforce and the ways they are supporting remote working
• Real estate investment activity in the first half of 2020 and why Michael is still cautious
• The Care Act and the contrast between residential and commercial tenants’ rights and responsibilities
• The state of new loans in housing finance with Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac and with private lenders

Connect with Antonio Marquez:

• Comunidad Real Estate Partners Website
• Comunidad Real Estate on Instagram
• Comunidad Real Estate on Twitter

Connect with Michael Brenner:

• Brennan Investment Group Website
• Brennan Investment Group on Facebook
• Brennan Investment Group on Instagram

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