Washington has a major impact on much of what we do as real estatedevelopers and owners. Between EPA, OSHSA, EEOC, and otheragencies, there are numerous rules, laws, regulations to follow,many of which make no sense, and all of which cost us money. HowWashington functions also is a major issue for all of us as we needa functional government that operates within the law so at least weknow the rules. We now have a president who has changed the rule oflaw and the precedent of the constitution by making illegal changesto Obamacare and now to immigration laws. This is not a minor issuefor us nor for the country. We no longer know what rules may befollowed, created by fiat, or just outright ignored at the whim ofObama.
So what does this mean for CRE. First, it means a lot to allcitizens because we now have the imperial president who thinks ifhe does not get what he wants he can just change the laws to suithimself. He has already lost several cases in court where hisdisregard for the law was stopped. However now we have the makingof a true constitutional crisis, which is now before the SupremeCourt, despite he and Harry Reid packing the Washington DC Appealcourt to try to stop the overturning of a key part of Obamacare.The move by Obama to change immigration law has taken a greatopportunity he had to work with Congress for two years and toaccomplish some real immigration changes, and to clean up Obamacareand other laws. Now instead we have worse acrimony than ever, andmany in Congress who will be out to show Obama that Congress stillmakes laws, not him,. The result will be not much gets done on keyissues like tax reform.
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Joel Ross
Joel Ross began his career in Wall St as an investment banker in 1965, handling corporate advisory matters for a variety of clients. During the seventies he was CEO of North American operations for a UK based conglomerate, and sat on the parent company board. In 1981, he began his own firm handling leveraged buyouts, investment banking and real estate financing. In 1984 Ross began providing investment banking services and arranging financing for real estate transactions with his own firm, Ross Properties, Inc. In 1993 Ross and a partner, Lexington Mortgage, created the first Wall St hotel CMBS program in conjunction with Nomura. They went on to develop a similar CMBS program for another major Wall St investment bank and for five leading hotel companies. Lexington, in partnership with Mr. Ross established a hotel mortgage bank table funded by an investment bank, and making all CMBS hotel loans on their behalf. In 1999 he formed Citadel Realty Advisors as a successor to Ross Properties Corp., focusing on real estate investment banking in the US, UK and Paris. He has closed over $3.0 billion of financings for office, hotel, retail, land and multifamily projects. Ross is also a founder of Market Street Investors, a brownfield land development company, and has been involved in the acquisition of notes on defaulted loans and various REO assets in conjunction with several major investors. Ross was an adjunct professor in the graduate program at the NYU Hotel School. He is a member of Urban Land Institute and was a member of the leadership of his ULI council. In 1999, he conceived and co-authored with PricewaterhouseCoopers, the Hotel Mortgage Performance Report, a major study of hotel mortgage default rates.
