Real Estate Figures: Personal Histories and Industry Developments

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The chapter delves into the personal lives of real estate figures through detailed Q&A sessions, exploring their unexpected paths into the industry and the challenges they faced. It also covers major developments in real estate, such as significant deals, departures of top executives, and controversies, including Blackstone's multifamily acquisition and innovative office-to-apartment conversions.

Lew Horne thought he was going to run a pet store business. Then, he thought he’d sell computerized systems to wholesale grocers. Neither panned out. Instead, Horne runs CBRE’s operations across Los Angeles, Orange County and the Inland Empire, leading advisory services, property and project management and capital markets teams.

And in L.A., developers, brokers and brokerage heads have no shortage of hurdles — a stagnant office market, new transfer taxes on sales over $5 million, homelessness and bureaucratic permitting processes. Horne chatted about it all.

“Let’s get some of these barriers out of the way,” Horne said. “Let’s start taking a look at what we need to do to regain the trust of the development community. Let’s not restrict them on what to build.”

The Real Deal sat down with Horne for The Closing, The Real Deal's signature monthly magazine interview series. Deconstruct is airing an extended version of this interview. To read it, head to TheRealDeal.com.