Commercial real estate, without the polish.
The Best Ever CRE Show treats commercial real estate like a working shop floor, not a lecture hall. Episodes move from sponsor reads and quick banter into investor acquisition, insurance, marketplace strategy, real estate positioning, multifamily supply, and the practical math behind raising capital.
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The Best Ever CRE Show is a commercial real estate interview feed with the cadence of people comparing notes between deals. It is practical first. Episodes often begin with a sponsor read, then move into a named segment or guest conversation with little ceremony. The subject matter is broad, but capital raising keeps pulling the show back to earth. Conversations cover investor acquisition, lead quality, sales funnels, books as positioning tools, and the difference between getting applause and getting checks. The show likes specificity. It asks what the numbers look like, what the market is doing, and what actually works when easy money and easy marketing stop working. The tone is warm, but it is not delicate. A guest can describe learning the business in a harder market, and the conversation turns that story into a lesson about sharper systems and less sloppy activity. Multifamily is a major reference point, yet the feed also makes room for subjects outside traditional apartments. Beyond Multifamily segments point toward other asset classes, listing marketplaces, and real estate-adjacent business models. Market episodes bring in supply, demand, construction starts, vacancy, concessions, rent growth, financing costs, material costs, and labor pressure. The show is especially useful when it connects market conditions to operator decisions. It does not treat a housing start, a capital stack, or a lead source as an abstraction. It asks how those pieces affect timing, fundraising, underwriting, and investor conversations. Some episodes lean hard into business development, including conference networking, mastermind groups, and one-to-many selling. Others get more tactical around systems, CRM data, AI agents, and the infrastructure needed before automation can help. The feed can feel crowded because sponsor reads and repeated intros sit close to the core interviews. That is part of the texture. The editorial value is in the working conversation underneath: commercial real estate practitioners trying to explain what changed, what still pencils, and where the next edge might come from.
Made for: The show fits active and passive commercial real estate investors, sponsors, operators, and capital raisers who want tactical conversations rather than broad motivation. It is especially relevant for listeners tracking multifamily, other asset classes, investor acquisition, and market-cycle strategy.
What sets it apart: Its edge is the mix of deal-level vocabulary and casual, real-time interrogation. The feed moves freely between GP and LP concerns, sales mechanics, market pressure, and operational systems without sanding off the blunt parts.
Welcome to the Best Ever CRE Show, the world’s longest-running daily COMMERCIAL real estate podcast. Founded by Joe Fairless, a co-founder of Ashcroft Capital who went from buying $35,000 homes to controlling more than $2.7 billion in real estate assets, the Best Ever CRE Show provides commercial real estate expert insights, education, and timely information to our community of active and passive investors who want to build wealth, build a legacy, and do more good in the world. So if you want the real stories behind the good, the bad, and the worst ever deals — plus, insights into what really goes on in commercial real estate investing — you’re in the right place. Our hosts interview commerc…
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Commercial real estate becomes a series of operating decisions, with market conditions, capital strategy and property-level tradeoffs kept firmly connected.
The Best Ever CRE Show keeps commercial real estate close to the decisions operators and investors actually face. Guest conversations move from apartment supply, vacancy and construction costs to troubled multifamily holdings, capital raising and concentration risk.
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A sharp reset on real estate deal finding and investor acquisition in a harder market.
The piece stays on real estate investing, with new construction and investor acquisition at the center. The guest argues that tougher markets expose sloppy habits, and the old post-webinar, wait-and-see routine does not carry much weight anymore.
A grounded look at how an Oregon commercial real estate book can open focused fund conversations.
Oregon commercial real estate gives the episode a narrow doorway into a wider point about selling a niche investment offer. The discussion works best when it shows why a book focused on commercial real estate in Oregon can do more than a general real estate title: it speaks to a…
A clear market read on stalled apartment supply, delayed demand, and what comes after the pause.
John Chang and the host spend most of the episode on one pressure point in real estate: weak apartment demand now, even as new supply starts to slow.
Matt McGovern links jury-room persuasion to construction finance and the practical economics of a building lobby.
Matt McGovern gives the conversation a clean throughline: persuasion does not stop at the jury box. He connects that skill to financing, secured lending, construction work, and the choices around a building's first floor.
A blunt real estate talk that ties deal math to the people inside it.
The episode treats real estate as a supply-and-demand puzzle and gives that idea shape through a house in a lower- to middle-income urban neighborhood.
A grounded look at AI readiness, clean operating systems, and the risk behind concentrated revenue.
AI readiness is framed here as a practical operating discipline: capture customer calls, keep the CRM clean, and keep planning, strategy, and management notes organized in one place. The episode pairs that advice with a sharper business lesson.
A 2026 multifamily goal turns underperformance into a decision point.
The episode centers on a practical problem for a multifamily owner: what to do when assets are merely okay and a few have not yet hit their stride. After Amanda's 2025 lesson and a big 2026 goal come up, the host turns that idea back onto DeRosa's portfolio.
Tax strategy through rented heritage property.
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Host Matt Faircloth and guest Amanda Cruise discuss lessons from 2025 and goals for 2026 in commercial real estate.
Broker John Warren and investor Cody Ray of Forte Properties describe how a client relationship turned into a partnership, sealed by a 2021 hiking trip where they sketched a plan to acquire 300 apartments on a napkin.
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This episode features an interview with Steve Taylor, founder of SoCommercial, discussing supply and demand dynamics, bootstrapping growth strategies, and marketplace approaches in real estate investing beyond traditional multifamily properties.
This episode features an interview with Richard McGirr discussing ratio metrics, lead quality, and scaling capital raising strategies for real estate investors.
This episode discusses how businesses can prepare for AI agents, CRM systems, and data strategy, with insights from Richard McGirr.
This episode features a discussion on simplifying real estate investing in new construction rentals through the Lenar Investor Marketplace, along with podcast tips for beginners.
Capital raising has gotten less forgiving lately.
Oregon is the hook.
The episode opens with a sponsor read for Lenar Investor Marketplace.
Ash Patel and Tan Trang record The Best Ever CRE Show from the Best Ever Conference in Salt Lake City, where they bring on Matt McGovern, a carpenter-turned-lawyer-turned-construction manager from Topeka, Kansas.
This episode features an interview with Justin Spillers about his proven de-risked approach to raising capital for multifamily real estate investments, following his win at a pitch competition.
The episode opens with a sponsor read and quickly settles into a blunt real estate conversation.
This episode features an interview with Kevin Amolsch from Pine Financial, focusing on mastering real estate deals through data-driven strategies and new construction investments.
This episode features Ben Fraser discussing how to build a multi-asset fund-of-funds program at massive scale for real estate investors.
Richard McGirr hosts an emergency podcast discussing the emergence of AI agents in 2026, specifically mentioning ClawedBot/MaltBot/OpenClaw, while also promoting Lenar Investor Marketplace for real estate investing.