by Joe Stampone | Sep 23, 2016 | Asset Management, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Passive Investing, Technology
With the passing of the JOBs Act in 2013, private real estate investing has become much more accessible to accredited investors. This has led to the emergence of crowdfunding marketplaces and the ability for companies to generally solicit, enabling investors to...
by Joe Stampone | Jun 16, 2016 | Entrepreneurship, Passive Investing
I was talking with a potential investor from the Bay Area the other day. He has $1M to invest and is looking to create a tax-efficient diversified passive-income portfolio. He’s deciding between investing with experienced operators as an LP and purchasing a small...
by Joe Stampone | May 26, 2016 | Entrepreneurship, Passive Investing
I was chatting with a friend of mine the other day who owns/operates retail assets in secondary markets on the west coast. He was telling me about the mis-pricing he’s seeing in core-plus real estate deals in secondary markets driven by the lack of capital targeting...
by Joe Stampone | Apr 24, 2016 | Asset Management, Career, Entrepreneurship
I was at the Columbia Business School real estate career fair a few months back and the program director mentioned the CBS real estate club was larger than ever. Real estate has become a popular career choice amongst top MBA students as the market has performed well...
by Joe Stampone | Apr 6, 2016 | Entrepreneurship
I recently turned 30 and have been working for Atlas for over 5 years now, which feels like a long time, but is nothing in the grand scheme of an entire career that could last 60+ years. We’re under contract on our 40th deal and at this point I have the core...
by Joe Stampone | Mar 30, 2016 | Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Passive Investing, Technology
The most profound change to real estate over the past several decades is the institutionalization of the business, especially as it relates to finance. Real estate has become a Wall Street business. However, the sub-institutional space (sub-$10mm deals generally...
