Making Lemonade from Lemons

NEW YORK CITY-The RealShare Net Lease conference will return for its seventh year at the Marriot Marquis in Manhattan on April 29, and as in past years the event is expected to convene some of the foremost net lease property investors, owners and brokers from around the country for a day of high-level market discussion.

Setting the stage for the day will be the conference’s opening session, “Making Sense of the Economic Downturn for Net Lease Investors and Owners,” a special discussion by noted real estate economist and researcher Sam Chandan, president and chief economist of Real Estate Economics LLC, and national retail consultant and chairman of Davidowitz & Associates Inc. Howard L. Davidowitz. Another special RealShare Net Lease feature will be the “Net Lease Insider,” a one-on-one interview with Paul McDowell, chairman and chief executive officer of publically traded REIT CapLease Inc. and a 15-year veteran of the net lease property market.

Net Lease Capital Advisors president Bruce MacDonald will moderate the conference’s perennially popular “Town Hall Meeting,” a big-picture look at the forces shaping the net lease market of today and tomorrow. Sharing their market savvy and insight on this all-star panel will be Richard Ader, founder of US Realty Advisors; Gordon DuGan, president and CEO of W.P. Carey & Co.; Kyle Gore, managing director of the real estate net lease group at RBS Global Banking & Markets; Nicholas Schorsch, chairman and CEO of American Realty Capital; and Glen Kunofsky, senior director of Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services Inc.