CREFC Panelists Eye Interest Rates, Tapering

MIAMI—The CRE Finance Council‘s January 2014 Conference was wall to wall with commercial real estate professionals looking for insight into the state of the finance industry. The conference, which promised to address the most relevant topics facing the industry today and presented by recognized finance leaders, did not disappoint.

After a continental networking breakfast at the famous Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach, attendees flooded into the opening session with keynote speakers Jonathan Pollack, managing director for Deutsche Bank and Steve Witkoff, CEO of The Witkoff Group. That was followed by a panel entitled, “Best Investment Ideas: High Yield, Investment-Grade, Direct Property.”