As the daughter of a Washington, D.C.–based real estate private equity executive, Hilary Provinse grew up around the industry, but her early career on a ‘90s Wall Street trading floor shaped her resilience and sharpened her leadership instincts. Today, as executive vice president and head of mortgage banking at Berkadia, she manages a 400-person capital markets team spanning mortgage banking and investment sales.

Provinse is a 2018 CREW Network Distinguished Leader and Berkadia is a CREW Network Gold Level Partner. Commercial Property Executive Senior Editor Laura Valean invited her on the CREW Up podcast for a candid conversation about leadership, career evolution and women’s progress in commercial real estate. Navigating today’s reset in financing values, she reflects on the importance of understanding people’s strengths, building diverse teams and meeting clients where they are.

In this FTI Experts’ Hub podcast, we look back at one of the most pivotal moments in recent commercial real estate history—the early months of the pandemic—through the lens of two specialists from FTI Consulting’s Real Estate Solutions and Real Estate Advisory practices: Jahn Brodwin and Benjamin Steele.

Back in April 2020, as uncertainty gripped the industry, 40-year veteran Brodwin wrote a thought piece titled "The Office Market After COVID-19: Will It Be a Zero-Sum Game?" In it, he explored the opposing forces he believed would shape office demand in the years ahead, and he shared those same ideas in an early episode of FTI Experts’ Hub.

Nearly six years later, his predictions offer a compelling starting point for understanding just how differently the office sector has evolved. In this podcast with CPE Senior Editor Laura Valean, Brodwin examines the assumptions behind his 2020 outlook and reflects on which dynamics unfolded as he anticipated and which surprised him. Joining him is Benjamin Steele, part of the next generation of CRE advisors at FTI Consulting. Steele adds a fresh, data-driven perspective on the sector’s trajectory and challenges some of the 2020 assumptions with today’s realities.

On January 1, 2026, Jim Taylor will officially retire asCEO of Brixmor Property Group. In this conversation, recorded before his retirement was announced this fall, Taylor reflects on his long and eclectic journey in the industry. Over the past couple of decades, he’s traveled what he jokinglydescribes as “a checkered path” that ultimately led to the C-suite at Brixmor.

Before becoming a real estate executive, he was anaccountant, earned a law degree and worked as an investment banker. Taylor’s service to the industry also includes leadership roles in several industryorganizations.  He’s been a member of Nareit’sexecutive board and he was the 2024 chairman of ICSC.

During his decade as Brixmor’s CEO, Jim Taylor has overseenan extensive program of reinvestment in the REIT’s 63-property, 354 million-square feet portfolio of open-air centers. As of the third quarter this year, Brixmor’s pipeline of property upgrades encompassed 375 million dollars’worth of enhancements across 35 properties.

In this conversation, Taylor discusses the factors that aredriving growth for open-air centers, how the capital markets view the asset category, Brixmor’s strategy of reinvestment and more. Take a listen.

Episode highlights:

·    (1:47) A “checkered path” to the REIT C-suite

·    (4:44) The No. 1 factor in company success

·    (6:01) Topline trends in open-air centers

·    (7:27) Inside Brixmor’s investment strategy

·    (9:43) Adding value: works in progress

·    (11:37) Disciplined capital allocation

·    (13:00) Creating critical portfolio mass

·    (14:44) An “unprecedented breadth” of tenantdemand

·    (16:18) Why it’s competitive out there foracquisitions

·   (18:37) Lenders open the gates

·   (19:29) Growth trajectory: 2026 and beyond

Industrial real estate is balancing short-term headwinds with long-term opportunity. While new supply and slower leasing are shaping near-term performance, e-commerce, manufacturing expansion and data center growth continue to drive structural demand.

In this inaugural episode of Inside Industrial, Link Logistics' CFO Matthew Ostrower discusses how the company is positioning for these shifts and using data to stay ahead of market change.

Ostrower oversees corporate finance and also leads strategy and innovation at Link. The company, established by Blackstone in 2019, is the largest U.S.-only owner-operator of last-mile industrial real estate, with a nationwide portfolio of modern warehouses and distribution facilities and customer programs such as the Energy Solutions platform.

“Location really matters—spatial economics is everything,” Ostrower said, noting that decisions increasingly hinge on where long-term demand is most durable. He also outlines how insights from Link’s portfolio guide capital allocation and why he expects momentum to build again over the next couple of years.

Take a listen as Commercial Property Executive’s Diana Firtea explores these themes with Ostrower in the first episode of Inside Industrial.

Welcome back to Sustainability Street, our podcast on the intersection of commercial real estate and the world we live in.

Last week, I attended the Greenbuild conference in Los Angeles where I got to sit down with Rhiannon Jacobsen, managing director of market transformation & development for the U.S. Green Building Council, which hosts the global sustainability event.

If you don't know, Greenbuild is an annual conference that draws thousands of executives from around the globe to talk about making buildings and communities more sustainable. Building resilience was a big focus for this year's program, but so was decarbonization, energy efficiency, the circular economy, wellbeing in buildings, the increasing role of data and so much more.

Jacobsen and I talked about the overall theme of the conference "Better Buildings, Better Futures," about the new LEED v5 and about how U.S. sustainability is faring now that the federal government has rolled back support.

 "We see incredible work happening at the city, at the state, at the county level," she told me. "We're going to continue to encourage that, and, of course, we're going to be available to speak with and support federal initiatives."

You can find other highlights from our conversation here:

• (1:10) The buzz at Greenbuild
• (1:52) "Better Buildings, Better Futures"
• (2:26) Green innovation
• (3:46) Getting to know LEED v5
• (6:27) States and cities lead the way
• (8:26) Big takeaways

A year of mixed sentiment across global commercial real estate, with sharp contrasts between regions—this is the main takeaway from the latest Global Commercial Property Monitor released by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in London. While investor confidence is firming in markets such as the U.S., India and the UAE, markets such as China, France and Germany face sluggish demand and subdued outlooks. “Uncertainty around trade, interest rates, geopolitics continue to cloud the outlook as they have done most of the year,” said Head of Market Analytics Tarrant Parsons, in the final podcast episode of RICS Monitor in 2025.

Press play for the full podcast, hosted by CPE Senior Editor Laura Valean!

It’s no secret that the proliferation of AI has propelled data center demand to new heights these past two years. This resulted in unprecedented pressure on the nation’s power grid, leading developers and operators in search of new solutions. In this environment, power availability is the most important factor in developing new data centers.In this inaugural episode of Alternative Disruptors, guest Alex Stoewer, CEO of Greenlight Data Centers, drives home this point. His new company develops 'right-size' data centers, with a speed-to-market approach, capitalizing on pockets of power across the U.S., especially in smaller markets, where it can deliver modern facilities without the constraints that hyperscale projects face."For the majority of data center functions, especially now with AI and GPU-based computing, it's really all about the power," Stoewer said. "The power is the real estate. If you go and gain control of a certain amount of power in a place where a data center is viable, in a place where the latency is reasonable, and you have all the other ingredients that you need—that power is the land, effectively."What's more, Greenlight actively avoids competing with big hyperscalers for that power by targeting locations where obtaining 20 to 50 megawatts quickly is viable. Besides this availability, incentives are also a big factor in the decision-making process. Take a listen as Commercial Property Executive Senior Associate Editor Tudor Scolca-Seușan talks about these issues with Stoewer.Here's a summary of their discussion:

• (00:00) Welcome to Alternative Disruptors
• (01:27) How Greenlight Data Centers came to be
• (04:29) Power-first approach
• (06:30) Finding pockets of power across the U.S.
• (09:13) Due diligence
• (13:30) A different strategy than hyperscale
• (15:44) The importance of incentives
• (19:36) Community and economic impact
• (21:33) Transparency in the data center sector
• (23:03) Looking ahead to 2026 and beyond
• (25:22) Lightning round: risks, traits, and myths

Welcome back to Sustainability Street, our podcast on the intersection of commercial real estate and the world we live in.

For this episode, I'm going inside CRE's power predicament: The U.S. power grid is having a hard time keeping up with ever-increasing demands for power from industrial users and and rapidly expanding data center providers.

My guests for this episode are Josephine Tucker, Americas head of energy and sustainability for JLL, and Meaghan Elwell, global president of JLL’s industrials business within Work Dynamics.

Tucker and Elwell break down the causes of the supply and demand imbalances and the widespread repercussions. They also highlight the innovation that this situation has sparked.

"Right now, what we see is only about 2 percent of land that is industrial zoned is actually ready—build ready with power and utilities already there," Elwell said. "And then on top of that, if the power isn't there, it can take up to six years."

Here are some of the topics we covered:

• (3:35) Why energy needs are surging
• (7:18) Power is the new real estate
• (9:11) Power, place and people
• (11:33) Data centers vs. everyone else
• (14:09) The role of renewables
• (17:23) Real demand vs. future demand
• (24:59) Collaboration is the key
• (27:26) Creative solutions

Demand for data centers has never been higher. AI's rapid advancement and the associated compute requirements have been key drivers of development nationwide.

“Even when potentially facing a large tariff, it’s not necessarily stopping people from developing data centers because it’s a long-term play,” said McRae Thompson, senior managing director & leader of the Real Estate Tax Advisory group at FTI Consulting, in the latest FTI Experts’ Hub podcast episode with Commercial Property Executive Senior Editor Laura Valean.

Tune in to find out what it takes to develop data centers today!

Alison Beddard has a degree in nutrition and dietetics, and was always encouraged by her family to go into the sciences field. But everyone kept telling her she would be great in sales, so she gave it a try and took on a brokerage job. And for three years, she only grew. Then the Great Financial Crisis of 2008 hit, and she lost everything she had built. That’s when she found CREW Seattle—right when she was looking for support and guidance to broaden her professional network.

Get to know Beddard, CREW Network's new CEO, by listening to her conversation with CPE Senior Editor Laura Valean!