Thought Leaders
Thought Leaders is the home to the voices of industry leaders, as they share their expertise and insights directly from the field. Explore this section to gain the perspectives of those at the top of their class.

For over 200 years, JLL (NYSE: JLL), a leading global commercial real estate and investment management company, has helped clients buy, build, occupy, manage and invest in a variety of commercial, industrial, hotel, residential and retail properties. A Fortune 500 company with annual revenue of $20.8 billion and operations in over 80 countries around the world, our more than 110,000 employees bring the power of a global platform combined with local expertise. Driven by our purpose to shape the future of real estate for a better world, we help our clients, people and communities SEE A BRIGHTER WAYSM. JLL is the brand name, and a registered trademark, of Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated. For further information, visit jll.com
Redaptive is a leading Energy-as-a-Service provider that funds and installs energy-saving and energy-generating equipment. Redaptive’s programs help many of the world’s most sophisticated organizations reduce energy waste, optimize cost, lower carbon emissions, and meet their sustainability goals across their entire real estate portfolios. With Redaptive, customers can overcome capital and resource barriers to achieve energy-saving benefits quickly, all with continuous data powered by Redaptive’s proprietary metering technology. Redaptive was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Denver, Colorado. For more information, visit: redaptive.com
Berkadia, a joint venture of Berkshire Hathaway and Jefferies Financial Group, is a leader in the commercial real estate industry, offering a robust suite of services to our multifamily and commercial property clients. Through our integrated mortgage banking, investment sales and servicing platform, Berkadia delivers comprehensive real estate solutions for the entire life cycle of our clients’ assets. To learn more about Berkadia, please visit www.berkadia.com
Redwood Living, Inc. (Redwood) is an innovative development and property management company with neighborhoods in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Kentucky, currently. Redwood believes in the growth of the rental population, and provides remarkable and unique neighborhoods to meet this demand. The success of this approach continues to be validated in new markets.
For more than 30 years, EBI has helped clients maximize value in the built and natural environments, delivering quality insights that move business forward. Founded in 1989 at the intersection of business and development, we've always been committed to delivering the information clients need to make the best business decisions. With nearly 600 industry experts coast-to-coast, our capabilities include due diligence, climate risk, architecture and engineering, and environmental, health and safety services.
Headquartered in Rye, NY, Serendipity Labs Inc., is an American flexible office space company that opens, manages and markets its upscale coworking brand as a service for office asset owners. Serendipity Labs was established in 2011 by industry leader John Arenas to serve as a trusted, outsourced extension of the corporate workplace. Its hub and spoke network of locations offers highly hosted workplaces caters to the trusted knowledge workforce with private offices, coworking, all-access Worktopia memberships along with meeting and event facilities and business continuity plans. Companies of all sizes use Serendipity Labs strategically, as an outsourced real estate solution.
With the resources and experience of a $95B+ portfolio, the Capital One national commercial real estate team delivers tailored financing solutions. The Top 10 U.S. commercial bank and Top 6 agency lender offers a full suite of permanent and construction loans including industrial, multifamily housing, offices and student housing. For more information, visit www.capitalone.com/commercial/.
Counselors of Real Estate are trusted advisors finding solutions to complex real estate challenges. Experienced, innovative, and credentialed problem solvers, Counselors reside in 22 countries, practice in many more, and offer expertise in more than 60 real estate disciplines across all asset classes. Each has earned the prestigious CRE® designation.
Freddie Mac Multifamily is the nation's multifamily housing finance leader. Historically, more than 90% of the eligible rental units we fund are affordable to families with low-to-moderate incomes earning up to 120% of area median income. Freddie Mac securitizes about 90% of the multifamily loans it purchases, thus transferring the majority of the expected credit risk from taxpayers to private investors.
The SVN® brand was founded in 1987 out of a desire to improve the commercial real estate industry for all stakeholders through cooperation and organized competition. SVN is now a globally recognized commercial real estate entity united by a shared vision of creating value with clients, colleagues, and its communities. SVN Advisors work to ensure that maximum cooperation equals maximum value in every type of transaction. SVN’s unique business model is built on collaboration and transparency and supported by an inclusive culture. We believe in sharing data, fees, knowledge, and opportunities among all members of the CRE industry to create maximum value for our clients, colleagues, and communities. As the industry leader in collaboration, SVN believes in the power of working together to create shared prosperity and drive commercial real estate forward.










