Investing with GoodLife | Real Estate News, Investing Tips, & Current Events
A weekly open forum podcast where GLHP’s Principals discuss investing, real estate, and other current events.
Please send any questions or feedback to pod@goodlifehp.comGoodLife Housing Partners is a privately-held real estate investment company based in Los Angeles with a focus on the student housing and workforce apartment sectors.
The firm was founded by Rohan Gupta and David N. Fong in May 2015 and as of February 2021 has assets under management with an estimated value of approximately $350 million.
Episodes
239 episodes
Blackstone Starts Selling — Is the Market Turning? - 232
This week on Investing with GoodLife Housing Partners — David and Rohan cover March Madness in Las Vegas, the Fed’s latest pause, and why institutional capital is quietly repositioning across real estate.• March Madness in Vegas: ...
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Episode 232
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29:48
The $1.2 Billion Brokerage Bet That Could Reshape Commercial Real Estate - 231
This week on Investing with GoodLife Housing Partners — David and Rohan unpack major CRE transactions, rising policy pressure, and shifting market dynamics as capital continues to move despite an increasingly uncertain regulatory environment.
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Episode 231
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Why Energy Prices and Rate Cuts Are Colliding Right Now - 230
This week on Investing with GoodLife Housing Partners — David and Rohan unpack rising energy prices, Fed rate-cut expectations, and major real estate shifts as institutions reposition assets in an uncertain market.Weak Jobs Repor...
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Episode 230
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40:54
From Dead Malls to Medical Halls — The Next Wave of Real Estate Reuse - 229
This week on Investing with GoodLife Housing Partners — David and Rohan unpack how rising geopolitical tensions, stubborn inflation data, and new real-estate policies are shaping investor expectations across multiple property sectors.
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Episode 229
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39:28
Tariff Shockwaves and Private Credit Stress Signals - 228
This week on Investing with GoodLife Housing Partners — David and Rohan break down tariff-driven volatility, sticky inflation data, Fed tone shifts, and what it all means for real estate capital flows in 2026.Tariff Whiplash:...
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Episode 228
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29:12
Strong Jobs, Softer Inflation, and a Real Estate Reset - 227
This week on Investing with GoodLife Housing Partners — David and Rohan unpack cooling inflation data, lender positioning shifts, retail’s resurgence, distressed hospital real estate, and how capital is repositioning ahead of a potenti...
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Where Capital Is Going in 2026: Data Centers, Student Housing, and Niche Real Assets - 226
This week on Investing with GoodLife Housing Partners — David and Rohan track where real estate capital is moving next, from data-center connectivity and high-growth Sun Belt apartments to office-to-residential plays and niche “needs-based” sec...
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Episode 226
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Bridge-Lender Discipline Is Cracking, and Opportunity Is Leaking Out - 225
This week on Investing with GoodLife Housing Partners — the team recaps the NHMC real estate conference, shifting post-Fed expectations, early signs of a 2026 transaction thaw, and how capital (and power infrastructure) is reorganizing around t...
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2026 Looks Less Broken, Still Not Fixed -224
This week on Investing with GoodLife Housing Partners — Davos takes center stage as global capital reassesses power, policy risk, real estate distress, and what “normalization” might actually look like heading into 2026.Da...
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Episode 224
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24:15
The Illusion of Stability Taking Shape in 2026 - 223
This week on Investing with GoodLife Housing Partners — early-2026 data delivered mixed signals as weak job creation, sticky inflation pressures, and political interventions collided with AI hype and cautious optimism for a real estate r...
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Episode 223
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California May Have Finally Crossed the Line for Investors - 222
This week on Investing with GoodLife Housing Partners — markets opened 2026 with conflicting economic data, escalating political risk, mounting real estate distress, and renewed questions about whether California i...
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Episode 222
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The Fed Cut Once — And Basically Told Markets to Stop Dreaming - 221
This week on Investing with GoodLife Housing Partners — Rohan and David break down the Fed’s final rate cut of the year, emerging real estate niches like childcare and life sciences, and why policy choices are reshaping where capital is (and is...
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Episode 221
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How Opportunity Zone 2.0 Quietly Became the Best Tax Tool in Real Estate - 220
This week on Investing with GoodLife Housing Partners — David Fong breaks down why Opportunity Zone 2.0 marks a major reset for OZ investing, following fresh insights from the OZ Insiders dinner and the Novogradac Opportunity Zones Conference&n...
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The $400B Tech Boom Keeping America Out of Recession - 219
This week on Investing with GoodLife Housing Partners — Black Friday breaks spending records, the Fed edges toward a December rate cut, and data-center capital spending drives nearly all of America’s GDP growth. Holiday Spen...
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Episode 219
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How LA’s Rent Freeze Risks Freezing the Entire Market - 218
This week on Investing with GoodLife Housing Partners — the shutdown’s economic damage collides with a split Federal Reserve, LA clamps down harder on rent growth, and luxury hotels suddenly become one of the strongest signals of where capital ...
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Episode 218
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29:33
The Shutdown Shockwave: Job Cuts, Tariffs & the Coming Real Estate Reset - 217
This week on Investing with GoodLife Housing Partners — David and Rohan break down the record-setting government shutdown, the spike in job-cut announcements, and how shifting consumer behavior, tariffs, and robo-tech are reshaping the...
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Episode 217
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42:09
35 Days of Gridlock: Why Wall Street Is Quietly Pouring Billions Into U.S. Real Estate - 216
This week on Investing with GoodLife Housing Partners — David and Rohan cover the record-long government shutdown, cooling inflation, and how major institutions are repositioning into U.S. real estate. From Fed signals to fresh billion...
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Episode 216
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The Oklahoma City Play: Why This 26-Unit Deal Targets a 3.27x Return
Welcome to our webinar on Ayva Midtown Phase II—the development of a 26-unit apartment community in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Strategically located near major employment hubs with over 100,000 jobs, this $6.35 million project (with $1.8...
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Prologis Goes Digital and California Loosens the Reins -215
This week on Investing with GoodLife Housing Partners — government shutdowns ripple through data releases and airports, developers push ahead from Santa Monica to Phoenix, and Prologis rebrands itself for the AI era. <...
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Episode 215
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26:28
Powell’s Data Drought and LA’s Housing Illusion -214
This week on Investing with GoodLife Housing Partners — With Washington in shutdown mode, LA doubling down on costly housing policies, and Crowdstreet branching into private credit, private equity and VC, David and Rohan dissect what’s...
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Episode 214
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37:30
GDP Upgrades, Fed Caution, and Trump’s $1M Gold Visa - 213
This week on Investing with GoodLife Housing Partners — From a Q2 GDP revision upwards and Powell’s “not on autopilot” rate cut warning to a first-of-its-kind multi-state tenant union, Trump’s $1M “Gold Visa,” and LA Metro’s 10,000-unit ...
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Episode 213
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Fed Cuts, H-1B Shock, and Self-Driving Cars Redefine Real Estate - 212
This week on Investing with GoodLife Housing Partners Podcast — From Powell’s “risk-management” cut to Trump’s $100K H-1B bombshell, McKinsey’s forecast of autonomous cities, and Kennedy Wilson’s $347M bet on multifamily, David and Roh...
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Episode 212
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27:34
Retail Retreats, Self Storage Growth, and Offices Going Residential - 211
This week on GoodLife Housing Partners Podcast — From a million-job labor revision to Vegas hotel rate spikes, mall shake-ups, David and Rohan break down another wild week of markets, real estate, and lifestyle shifts.Jobs Revisi...
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Episode 211
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Jobs report New Shock, Tariff Refund Bets, and the High-Stakes Gamble on San Francisco - 210
This week on GoodLife Housing Partners Podcast — From a shocking jobs miss to tariff refund bets, student housing consolidation, and San Francisco’s tallest tower plans, David and Rohan unpack the week’s wild mix of market and real est...
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September Ambush Zone: Markets, Malls, and Mega-Tech CRE - 209
This week on GoodLife Housing Partners Podcast — From Fed drama and Trump’s tariff maneuvers to September’s market “ambush zone,” mall reinventions, and Nvidia’s $4T AI real estate build-out, David and Rohan unpack what’s shaping CRE right now....
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Episode 209
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