HeyJaredNo Vacancy with Taylor Avakian
Multifamily Commercial Real Estate in Los Angeles has never been more complex—or more full of opportunity.
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I Turned A $1M Deal Into $200M (Here’s How) | Austin Nissly | No Vacancy Real Estate Podcast (opens the original)
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Austin Nissly of LWK Partners on how he went from Citi and CIM Group to building an LA multifamily private equity firm, pairing value-add apartments with ADU density, and deploying capital in a tighter Los Angeles market. Taylor Avakian sits down with Austin on No Vacancy to cover the first $1 million building, raising from friends and family, why he stopped operating solo, how LWK Partners came together with complementary ops and acquisitions partners, and how new California density rules chang
I Found A Way To Fix Housing, The City Tried To Stop Me | Dave Rand | No Vacancy Podcast (opens the original)
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Land use attorney Dave Rand on California housing law, builder’s remedy, CEQA, Measure ULA, and why Los Angeles keeps making new housing harder even as the state rewrites the rules. Taylor Avakian sits down with Dave Rand of Rand Paster & Nelson LLP, a land-use attorney who has helped entitle thousands of market-rate and affordable units across Southern California. They talk through the reality of developing in Los Angeles and California today: unions and local politics, the Santa Monica and Bev
He Built A Real Estate Empire From Nothing (Here’s How) | John Ward (Turnstone Capital) (opens the original)
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*John Ward of Turnstone Capital joins Taylor Avakian on the No Vacancy podcast for a deep conversation on decades in multifamily real estate, from early loan officer days to building and managing apartment portfolios across California, Arizona, Texas, and Colorado.* John shares how he got started in the late 1970s, moved from FHA lending into flipping and converting small multifamily properties, navigated market cycles including the Global Financial Crisis, and scaled through high-net-worth inve
This 26-Year Old Is Building $300M of Affordable Housing (Here’s How) (opens the original)
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*26-year-old Shant Samuelian is building $300M+ in large-family affordable housing projects across Los Angeles through Samuelian Group.*In this episode of No Vacancy, Taylor Avakian sits down with the founder and CEO of Samuelian Group to unpack how a USC real estate development graduate moved from market-rate multifamily into LIHTC-driven affordable housing, why he focuses on 2- and 3-bedroom family units with parking instead of studios, and what it actually takes to win tax credits, raise equi
How He Became The #1 Multifamily Developer In LA (opens the original)
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Sean Burton, co-founder and CEO of Cityview, joins Taylor Avakian on the No Vacancy podcast for a deep conversation on scaling a vertically integrated multifamily firm, navigating cycles from the Great Financial Crisis through COVID, and the realities of investing and developing housing across the Western U.S. and beyond. They cover Cityview’s origins in 2003 with a focus on infill housing, the decision to vertically integrate development, construction, and property management, how the firm bala
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