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Today, Neal Bawa joins the show to talk about where the real estate industry is heading and how the Covid crisis can provide future real estate opportunities. Keep tuning in to find out more real estate market trends that will transform your investing outlook.

Today, we are joined by one of the most sought-after speakers in the real estate space….Neal Bawa, the Mad Scientist of Multifamily, is back for another incredible episode of predictions, economics, and trend analysis.

Neal Bawa is a real estate investor, data scientist, and the Founder/CEO of Grocapitus, a commercial real estate investment company. Neal sources negotiate, and acquire Commercial properties across the U.S., for nearly 500 investors. Neal’s current portfolio is over 2000 units, projected to be at 3000 units in 12 months. Neal also serves as CEO at MultifamilyU, an apartment investing education company. He speaks at events and meetups across the country.

In this episode, We discussed: Why Neal did not have entrepreneurial ideas when he was younger and taking a risk in creating businesses as he got older, Catching the real estate investing bug, How Neal uses technology and data to 10x his real estate investments; Answering the question “What are the best cities in America to invest in and what are the best neighborhoods in those cities?; Factors that make a real estate market good to invest in – what makes them the best cities to invest in real estate; Leveraging virtual assistants to 10X business;How this black swan event (COVID19) is more transformative than world war 2; How Neal is investing in the time of COVID19.

While COVID-19 is a total black swan event and it is hard to predict its effects, it could be a blessing in disguise for multifamily. Neal Bawa joins us again on the show today, and this time to give us his data-driven insights into the impacts of coronavirus on real estate.

Join Sterling Chapman and Neal Bawa as they talk about disruptive trends in real estate. Neal is the CEO and founder of Grocapitus Investments, a commercial real estate company. He discusses two trends – the future of hybrid work and how it changes real estate; and how tokenization makes real estate into stock.

Data obsessed, Neal Bawa, successfully created the super value add strategy to combine data and analytics with current trends to make the most informed future investing decisions. Today, Neal is talking about why real estate is the most inefficient asset, what he believes the future of real estate investing should be, and how Covid is altering current rent prices.

Tyler and Neal discussed how to optimize your company’s processes to manage a limitless number of real estate investing projects. They also want in-depth on the trend of tokenization, the process of turning real estate into stock.

Cap rates on most real estate asset classes have dropped 40% over the past five years. This has made cash flow very hard to achieve. Ground up construction, on the other hand, has much higher cap rates. The key is mitigating risk by being in the right markets with the right assets. Today’s guest, Neal Bawa, the Mad Scientist of Multifamily, has been doing ground up construction in smaller markets in several different asset classes in order to generate attractive returns for investors.

Prepare yourself for a fascinating conversation between Brian Hamrick and Neal Bawa as they take us through several disruptive trends that are going to change the way people live and invest. They’ll be discussing Hybrid Work and how they’ve only seen the tip of the iceberg in people working from home and companies allowing them to do so.

Multi-family rentals have increased by 2% annually in the previous three decades. During the following ten years, they had a 3% growth. Their growth rate grew by 12% in the last year, six times more than the 30-year average. Given these figures, multi-family occupancy should be declining; yet, last month had the highest occupancy in multi-family history, with 97.3% of all units filled. We are now seeing the highest rent growth and occupancy rates in history.

Neal Bawa, data scientist and CEO of Grocapitus Investments, discusses the disruptions the real estate industry has seen in the past twelve months.