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The Best Ever CRE Show

JF 4198: Navigating Macro Trends in Real Estate ft. Judd Dunning

The Best Ever CRE Show

Best Ever CRE

Business, Investing, Entrepreneurship

4.7996 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2026

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Pascal Wagner interviews Judd Dunning, who breaks down how American small and mid-cap businesses can leverage sale-leaseback deals to unlock 100% financing, grow their brands, and create win-win outcomes. He shares behind-the-scenes insights from closing billion-dollar deals with Deutsche Bank, the secret advantages of cost segregation accelerated depreciation, and why AI is transforming underwriting cutting days into minutes. You’ll discover the key red flags to avoid, how to assess customer concentration risks, and why on-shoring and supply chain shifts are fueling a new industrial boom. Judd Dunning Current role: President at DWG Capital Partners Based in: Los Angeles, California, Where to find them: https://dwg-re.com/our-team/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/judd-dunning/ Visit ⁠trustetc.com/bestever⁠ for more info. Book your free demo today at bill.com/bestever and get a $100 Amazon gift card. 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 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

0:04.8

more complex, more scrutinized, and harder to scale without the right structure.

0:10.0

That's why TribeVest is the industry leader in building the infrastructure behind private market

0:14.9

capital raising. They've solved the biggest problem sponsors face, how to work with capital partners,

0:22.4

aggregators, and networks professionally without creating chaos, compliance risk, or friction for investors.

0:28.3

TriVest has launched the Institute for Structured Capital, an education and operating system for modern

0:34.2

capital raisers.

0:35.5

There are two tracks, one for lead sponsors who want to build a

0:38.8

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.

0:56.0

Structure is the strategy for the modern capital raiser, and this is where the industry is

1:00.5

heading.

1:00.9

Coming to you live here from the best ever conference 10 in Salt Lake City, Utah, and I am

1:07.4

sitting down with Judd, and I just kind of wanted to dig in today about new deals that he's doing, existing deals, how they're going. I would love to talk a little bit about macro economics and what's happening and how that affects your niche. But I've gotten a lot of feedback that you guys want to hear more genuine conversations that are maybe not as polished. And I'm excited to sit down with

1:29.8

Judd here today to do that. So welcome, Judd. Diamond in the rough, buddy. Yeah, I'm not polished.

1:35.1

I just love real estate in America. And I think just to add some fun, I got to know Judd at a

1:41.2

Miami investor event where they pitched, where they got got a bunch of

1:46.0

investors around to pitch uh what they're doing and and grow their base and that's how i got to know them

1:50.8

initially and uh have you know that judd is a in the movie or was in the movie industry came in here

1:57.5

he's got these you know amazing glasses like he belongs in Miami.

2:01.3

You don't live in Miami.

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