How Technology is Disrupting the Real Estate Industry

Real estate equity investments and joint ventures have become an increasingly important part of the real estate investment arena, particularly hotel properties. Travel restrictions and health concerns had an extreme impact on hotel properties and operations, and occupancy remains low due to reduced travel. The joint venture model for hotel acquisitions offers many benefits, including increased access to capital. The joint venture agreement and other related documents are very complex and fiercely negotiated. Real estate and finance counsel must understand all the pertinent issues to successfully evaluate and mitigate risk and address economic issues when negotiating and structuring a joint venture agreement for hotel transactions. Listen as our authoritative panel of real estate practitioners and advisers reviews vital legal issues in joint ventures for hotel acquisitions and development, taking into account unique issues in this asset class. The panel will focus on preferred return/promoted interest, carried interest, cash flow splits, risk allocations, guarantees, unwind provisions, and other major decisions.

Attorney David Calderon, Esq. and CEO of uDirect IRA Services, Kaaren Hall, will show you how property owners can use an IRA LLC to guard their personal and business assets from unforeseen liabilities and quickly diversify real estate investments. After this one-hour webinar you will nail down exactly how to set up your self directed IRA to invest in property and other assets. Learn all about the IRA LLC as an asset protection tool and whether this strategy is right for you!

Most buildings we see today were designed and built at a time when technology was simple and unsophisticated. Fast forward to today and a combination of the Internet, building networks, the cloud and smart connected devices all delivering data to a new breed of data gathering and analysis platforms, allow us to operate assets at a new level of precision. How do I connect devices? What data is important, and how much data is too much? How do I differentiate between all the systems, and which should be integrated? Where do I find the expertise on best practices? This webinar will present insight from industry leaders @ the forefront of the smart building analytics revolution.

This topic will provide you with information and knowledge on legal and contractual issues affecting subcontracts that are commonly encountered, such as changes and extras, pricing, termination, dispute resolution, risk allocation, pay to be paid provisions and other common clauses. The information obtained will assist you in fully comprehending the risk you are assuming in a contract. Knowledge of the risk will allow you to better evaluate the desirability of bidding upon or taking a specific job, and will help you to protect yourself from unforeseen or unanticipated loss.