Your Commercial Real Estate Insider guide. From profiles of the biggest dealmakers to skyline-shaping transactions, we bring you the deals, breakdowns and war stories that move the market — for insiders, by insiders. From bad-boy guarantees to CMBS tranche warfare to syndicator sins, we cover it all. Each week, The Promote Podcast explores three of the most interesting and consequential stories in CRE, taking you well beyond the headlines and into the heart of the action. Hosted by the award-winning “Bard of CRE,” Hiten Samtani, along with no-BS institutional insider Will Krasne. Now a top 80 pod on Apple in "Business & Investing." Also check out our 3x/week newsletter for industry insiders at https://www.thepromote.com/
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Signup to Generate a PitchYour Commercial Real Estate Insider guide. From profiles of the biggest dealmakers to skyline-shaping transactions, we bring you the deals, breakdowns and war stories that move the market, for insiders, by insiders. From bad-boy guarantees to CMBS tranche warfare to syndicator sins, we cover it all.
Recent episodes include "The Apollo Program & Dirty Ground Games" (29 October 2026, 36 minutes), "Golden State Gimmes & Lument's Lament" (14 October 2026, 31 minutes), and "Mana From Hedgie Heaven & Blue Owl Force Majeured" (7 October 2026, 36 minutes).
The Promote Podcast publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 35 minutes.
Booking probability for The Promote Podcast is 34%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Promote Podcast requires a Pod Score of 81 or higher. The Promote Podcast's contact route on record: verified email.
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Episode #81
This week, we break down an ingenious scheme that has wreaked havoc on several regional banks. Lad of Lakewood Shaya Prager became one of the biggest buyers of suburban office in the pandemic era – everyone wondered how...
Episode #79
This week, we get into the potential homecoming of a big agency lender: Lument is on the block, and sources point to a round-trip to its original home, the billionaire Hunt family out of Texas. We then head further west...
This week, we need to dive into the real estate deal of the year – arguably, of any year: Ken Griffin is bringing Carnegie Mellon to Miami , a transformative gift for the 305 in so many ways. We focus primarily on 2...
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In this bonus episode, we sit down with Presidio Bay’s Cyrus Sanandaji. Cyrus is at the vanguard of the comeback in America’s most important boom-and-bust town – San Francisco . His firm made prescient bets on SF’s...
Episode #76
This week, we take stock of the tale of Lurin Capital , a multifamily syndicator that's now in the FBI's crosshairs. Jon Venetos was cut from very different cloth than the rest of the Sunbelt Dreamers, and his rise and...
Episode #75
This week, we visit CRE’s alpha lair, Blackstone HQ , where one of the industry’s top execs, global head of real estate Nadeem Meghji, is set to exit. His perch was among the best risk-adjusted seats in all business...
This week, we dive into 2 operatic stories of ruin on different continents. We begin with the tale of Hui Ka Yan , a Chinese property tycoon who went from being a steelworker to one of the world’s richest men, before...
This week, we put on our toques and head to the TSX, where Meyer Orbach and Josh Gotlib are on a fascinating multifamily caper with their REIT GO Residential . We then take a back door into a special-servicer war, with...
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In this bonus episode, we sit down with JDS Development Group boss Michael Stern , one of the builders synonymous with the luxury condo market in New York and more recently in Miami. Stern talks through home runs like...
Episode #72
The final part of our special trilogy on the Reichmanns traces how the mother of all megaprojects became a siren song for Olympia & York. Everything that had brought them to these heights – the creative financing, the...
Episode #71
Pt. II of our special episode on the Reichmanns takes us to the ultimate proving ground of Manhattan. We do a tick-tock of how Olympia & York pulled off the CRE deal of the century, buying 10 million square feet of...
Episode #70
This special episode dives deep into the story of the Reichmanns , an extraordinary family that probably contributed more to the financialization of CRE than anyone else. It’s a tale of survival, grit, chutzpah, genius...
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In our special mailbag episode, co-host Will Krasne tackles your most unhinged CRE questions: self-managing vs. 3rd party, nightmare tenant interactions, his CRE Mt. Rushmore and many more. Sponsors: 1) This episode is...
This week, we ride up a rickety construction elevator to the 21st floor of the Pfizer Building , where a major scare threatens to consume New York’s signature office-resi conversion project. We do a 360-degree analysis...
Episode #67
This week, we wade into the underbelly of big-ticket restructuring, looking at Pimco’s $1.8B lifeline on its disastrous bet on the Columbia Property Trust office portfolio, and how the lenders that stepped in after the...
Episode #66
This week, we take stock of the legacy of Alan Greenspan , the long-serving Fed Chair who has died at the ripe old age of 100. Greenspan’s moves, for better and for worse, shaped the CRE market as we know it today...
This week, we load up on chips n' vinegar and take you with us on an extraordinary journey into British caravan country . Embattled mobile-home king Robert Bull's tale brings together gypsies, Norwegian beauty queens...
Episode #64
This week, we dive into the high-stakes, high-reward (not for shareholders tho) world of SL Green, the mighty REIT that is New York’s largest commercial landlord . From a deal junkie standpoint, SL Green is king of the...
This week, we look at Texas billionaire Tilman Fertitta’s $18B megadeal for the Caesars entertainment empire - this is really an excuse for us to talk Tilman, one of the industries "C"haracters. Next, we dive into...
This week, we talk fear and loathing in interest rates : The 10Y and 5Y are going haywire and threaten to knock CRE's recovery off-kilter. Next, we discuss nepo babies running the asylum at Newmark: Howie Lutnick’s son...
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