JF 4165: Real Estate Inflection Points, Interest Rates and Capital Allocation ft. Jon Brooks

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🗓️ 29 January 2026

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Pascal Wagner interviews Jon Brooks, who breaks down why today’s real estate market is sending mixed signals—and why getting that interpretation wrong can have real financial consequences. Jon explains how decades of falling interest rates created a powerful tailwind for real estate that no longer exists, especially in overbuilt Sunbelt markets like Florida. The conversation explores what’s actually breaking versus what’s simply slowing down, including rising insurance and tax costs, declining affordability, demographic headwinds, and stalled migration. Jon also shares why he sold his entire personal real estate portfolio, pivoted into private lending, and ultimately shifted capital into equities as risk-return dynamics changed. This matters because many investors are still relying on outdated assumptions about appreciation, cash flow, and long-term demand. Understanding how interest rates, demographics, and market psychology intersect helps investors reassess where risk is no longer being adequately compensated—and how to position capital without relying on the market to “save” them. Jon BrooksCurrent role: Co-Founder, Momentum Realty; Private Lending Fund ManagerBased in: FloridaSay hi to them at: X - https://x.com/jonbrooks YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@therealjonbrooks Threads - https://www.threads.com/@iamjonbrooks Instagram - instagram.com/iamjonbrooks/?hl=en Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/jon.brooks.12 Substack - jonbrooks.substack.com Visit ⁠www.tribevestisc.com⁠ for more info. Try QUO for free PLUS get 20% off your first 6 months when you go to quo.com/BESTEVER Join us at Best Ever Conference 2026! Find more info at: https://www.besteverconference.com/ Join the Best Ever Community The Best Ever Community is live and growing - and we want serious commercial real estate investors like you inside. It’s free to join, but you must apply and meet the criteria. Connect with top operators, LPs, GPs, and more, get real insights, and be part of a curated network built to help you grow. Apply now at⁠ ⁠⁠⁠www.bestevercommunity.com⁠⁠ Podcast production done by⁠ ⁠Outlier Audio⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you're a lead sponsor or capital partner in today's private markets, raising capital is getting more complex,
0:06.2	more scrutinized, and harder to scale without the right structure. That's why TribeVest is the industry
0:12.0	leader in building the infrastructure behind private market capital raising. They've solved the biggest
0:17.2	problem sponsors face, how to work with capital partners, aggregators, and networks
0:22.4	professionally without creating chaos, compliance risk, or friction for investors.
0:28.4	TribeVest has launched the Institute for Structured Capital, an education and operating system for
0:33.8	modern capital raisers.
0:35.5	There are two tracks, one for lead sponsors who want to build
0:38.7	a structured program around working with capital partners, and one for capital partners who want
0:44.1	to build a real capital aggregation business the right way. If you're serious about raising
0:48.8	capital at scale with credibility and structure, you can join the wait list at tribevestisc.com. Structure is the strategy
0:57.1	for the modern capital raiser, and this is where the industry is heading. Over the last year,
1:02.0	you've probably been told two completely different stories at the same time. One says real estate
1:07.7	is breaking, and the other says it's business as usual. But both can't be true
1:12.8	everywhere and the cost of getting that wrong is not theoretical. It shows up where you allocate
1:18.8	capital, who you trust, and how exposed you really are when the conditions change. If you're paying
1:24.7	attention, you've probably been asking some version of, do I hold what I
1:29.0	already own? Do I stop making new commitments? Or do I rotate my exposure into different asset classes?
1:36.6	And the hardest part is that none of those questions have a clean, obvious answer right now.
1:42.6	And my guest today is John Brooks, and he started his career
1:45.9	in investment banking. It's been over a decade operating across brokerage, investing in capital
1:51.4	markets. He's owned and flipped more than 200 units. And in 2020, co-founded Momentum Realty,
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