Ric Clark On Leaving Brookfield To Start WatermanClark, Contrarian Investing

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Ric Clark

On this episode of Bisnow Experiences, Ric Clark, the handling associate of WatermanClark and previous chairman of Brookfield Houses, speaks about making bets on business as hybrid perform throws doubt on its value.

Clark was at Brookfield in New York for extra than 30 many years, overseeing its rise to starting to be the biggest office owner in the metropolis. He stepped back from the chairman’s position at Brookfield in February 2020 and in November of that year announced the formation of WatermanClark, which is a joint undertaking with Todd Waterman.

Now, the firm is marking its initially significant endeavor with the revamp of Lever Residence, a joint job with Brookfield. The setting up was the headquarters for the cleaning soap enterprise Lever Brothers, but right now it sits vacant, and Brookfield and WatermanClark are spending $100M to up grade it.

“I imagine just one of the important fundamentals of profitable genuine estate investing is to be equipped to different momentary anomalies, or fads, from tendencies,” he mentioned on the podcast. “Covid has not stopped the world’s population from developing or the environment from urbanizing.”