LOS ANGELES—Apartments transactions rose to an all-time recordof $150 billion in 2015 and with $72 billion in sales closed in thefirst half of the year alone, 2016 is on track to not disappoint.Behind these transactions are the professionals who put each dealtogether, whether they're connecting buyers with sellers or liningup the financing to make the sale happen. On a recent panel atRealShare Apartments last week, moderated by KittyWallace, EVP of Colliers International, expert sourcesdiscussed what it takes to sift through the massive number ofplayers in the market to find the right components and parties foreach transaction.
Panelist Gary Goodman, SVP of acquisitions atPassco, provided a national overlook, saying that he isfortunate to be able to look at the country as a whole as opposedto being a regional buyer. “The risk adjusted returns to us arereally the best in the Southeast,” he said, adding that his firm isvery active in Northern Atlanta, the Florida markets, Nashville,and Austin to name a few. “What I like is that they are suburbanlocations. We aren't focused at all on the core inner cityproperties.”
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