Neal Bawa, CEO of Grocapitus – The Future of MF Investing, Being a Data-driven Investor & more

Aug 30, 2023

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Neal Bawa
This podcast guesting of Neal Bawa is hosted by Steve Nabity and Jake Prieur of Heading West.
Heading West is sponsored by Skyline Point Capital – a real estate investment company focused on investments in multi-family apartments in some of the fastest-growing cities in the United States. We’re unlocking passive cash flow at scale, and living life a little differently. Invest alongside us and join us on the journey as we HEAD WEST.

Show notes:

3:30 – Neal’s take on the market and investor sentiment

5:00 – The stock market is tied to investor psychology

5:45 – The FED is slowing down and may have hit a plateau

6:00 – 2023 investor market is tied back to 2022

7:00 – Investors think they’re investors, but they’re really speculators

8:15 – Multifamily properties have dropped 22-26% in value

9:30 – Every investor in multifamily over the last 24 months thought they were gold

11:15 – Investors are making the mistake to not invest when things are down

13:00 – Investors are getting smarter about their underwriting

14:00 – In the money rate caps

16:00 – Many banks don’t want you to foreclose

17:00 – Where will interest rates go over the next few years

18:00 – 2026 will look like 2019

18:30 – The FED only started hiking in 2015

22:00 – Not likely to see cap rates drop significantly

23:15 – I’m more worried about disinflation, not inflation

24:30 – More deals are not closing than are closing

26:00 – The bid-to-ask ratio is always too high!

31:00 – There has to be capitulation between buyer and sellers

32:00 – 2023 has seen negative rent growth

32:30 – Rent growth has to be inflation-adjusted

33:30 – It’s normal for rent growth to be 1.5% above inflation

35:00 – Rent growth was so high last year because they had more money

36:00 – Newly constructed apartments are keeping rents low for others

41:00 – Interest rates have nothing to do with rate caps

42:15 – Rate caps will be cheaper next year in Q2 or Q3

44:00 – Cap rates won’t compress for a while

46:30 – Very few options if your rate cap expires in 2023

49:00 – Will the office space crash affect multifamily?

50:00 – Condo prices get affected first when office spaces get hurt

52:15 – The benefits of build-to-rent investing

53:30 – Why can’t people afford homes anymore

56:30 – BTR allows people to live in the next best thing to a home

58:15 – Property taxes are the 800lb gorilla for apartment NOI

1:00:30 – Location Magic

1:01:00 – Insurance is growing 15-30% each year

1:02:15 – Insurance companies prefer new builds

1:03:00 – Listen to Warren Buffett!