The Most Curious Things Happening in Multifamily Innovation, with Sage Ventures' Moshe Crane

“The most curious person in multifamily,” Moshe Crane is the VP of Branding and Strategic Initiatives at Sage Ventures, a Maryland-based real estate investment and management firm focused on multifamily and other asset acquisitions and development in the Baltimore-Washington corridor. The company manages more than $1B in assets and over 4,000 apartment units while developing and selling new homes. 

Moshe also hosts the Curious Wire podcast and writes the Curious Deal newsletter, where he breaks down multifamily deals, careers, and industry trends while exploring how operators build, finance, and scale real estate businesses.

(01:45) - Moshe’s Real Estate Path
(02:32) - Deals Returning to the Market
(06:05) - Sage Ventures' Market Focus
(07:27) - Defining Great Operators
(08:27) - The Third-Party Talent Crunch
(10:17) - Systems Beat Stars
(12:36) - The Sage Operations Playbook
(15:47) - Fraud Screening Tools
(19:01) - The Roving Team Mindset
(21:05) - Moshe’s Role
(23:56) - Feature: CREtech New York Oct. 20–21
(25:52) - The Accidental Self-Storage Win
(26:41) - Office-to-Storage Conversions
(28:21) - A Scrappy Deal Mix
(28:58) - Low-Basis Development Opportunities
(29:46) - Pitching Flexibility to LPs
(30:26) - No Gurus, Just Operators
(33:58) - Discipline Over Vertical Integration
(36:19) - PropTech Ecosystem Shifts
(39:38) - Proptech Adoption
(44:42) - Motivation, Curiosity & Faith
(49:31) - Collaboration Superpower: Bill Walsh

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