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
248 episodes
Fed Fights, Inflation Spikes, and FIFA’s Hotel Shortfall - 241
This week on Investing with GoodLife Housing Partners — Rohan and David break down the Fed transition, hotter inflation data, new housing policy fights, and why the 2026 FIFA World Cup may not deliver the hotel boom many expected. ...
Big REITs, Big Campuses, and the New Real Estate Reset - 240
This week on Investing with GoodLife Housing Partners — Rohan and David unpack the April jobs report, major real estate merger activity, EV-driven retail strategy, AT&T’s Plano headquarters move, Opportunity Zone 2.0, and the early...
How Tim Hubbard Built a Modern Short-Term Rental Business - 239
This week on Investing with GoodLife Housing Partners, Rohan and David sit down with Tim Hubbard from Corzly to discuss the evolution of short-term rentals, property management technology, dynamic pricing, and where opportunities still exist in...
Why LA’s Housing Math Is Breaking Down - 238
This week on Investing with GoodLife Housing Partners — David and Rohan discuss the growing divide between cities encouraging development and cities pushing capital away, while unpacking what that means for housing, office markets, and...
Fed Shakeups, Texas Data Centers, and the Death of Old Downtown LA - 237
This week on Investing with GoodLife Housing Partners — David and Rohan break down Fed leadership changes, corporate relocations, Texas development momentum, LA’s policy problems, and signs that institutional capital may be finding val...
Walmart Expands, Data Centers Stall, and NYC Targets Wealth - 236
This week on Investing with GoodLife Housing Partners — retail giants ramp up expansion, policymakers tighten the screws on real estate, and investors debate where we are in the next buying cycle.Retail Is Back in Growth Mode...
Is the Reset Over? Amazon’s 51M SF Bet and the Reality of 3.3% Inflation - 235
This week on Investing with GoodLife Housing Partners — inflation ticks higher, Amazon re-enters the industrial race, and real estate markets show clearer signs of a structural reset across office, retail, and capital flows.Infla...
Strong Jobs Report, Office Comeback, Blackstone’s Next Big Bet - 234
This week on Investing with GoodLife Housing Partners — a stronger-than-expected jobs report, record-setting office leases in New York, and institutional capital rotating back into real estate signal shifting momentum across markets. <...
Crypto Mortgages & The Silver Tsunami - 233
This week on Investing with GoodLife Housing Partners — AI demand is reshaping office markets, crypto enters traditional mortgages, and demographic shifts are quietly creating one of the biggest real estate opportunities ahead.
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: ...
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.
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...
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.
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:...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...