Working Capital Commercial Real Estate Real Estate, Climate Change and Institutional Capital with Jim Clayton | EP106
Jim Clayton is the Director and Timothy R. Price Chair at the Brookfield Centre in the Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto.
In this episode we talked about:
- Jim’s Bio & Background
- Real Estate Education Evolution
- Climate Risk and the Opportunity for Real Estate
- Dealing with Tax & Climate
- The Courses Jim Teaches in the Schulich School
- Leadership in Real Estate
- Jim’s View on Current Real Estate Environment
- Resources
Useful links:
Adam Grant “Think Again”
The surprising habits of original thinkers | Adam Grant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxbCHn6gE3U
https://schulich.yorku.ca/faculty/jim-clayton/
Transcription:
Jesse (0s): Welcome to the working capital real estate podcast. My name is Jesper galley. And on this show, we discuss all things real estate with investors and experts in a variety of industries that impact real estate. Whether you're looking at your first investment or raising your first fund, join me and let's build that portfolio one square foot at a time.
Jesse (23s): Ladies and gentlemen, my name's Jess for galley, and you're listening to working capital the real estate podcast. My special guest today is Jim Clayton. Jim is the director and Timothy our price chair at the Brookfield center and real estate and infrastructure. And that is at the Schulich school of business here in Toronto, Canada. And that is at York university. Jim, how are you doing today?
Jim (45s): I'm good. I'm good. Thanks for having me Jesse. And that was a big mouthful.
Jesse (48s): Yeah, we thought we'd, we'd like, we've talked about before the show, we'd kind of break it down because you've got quite an extensive background in real estate. And before I start a York university at the Schulich school of business, how long have you been at that post?
Jim (1m 3s): I've been here just over four years. I came in 2018 and partly because Schulich school received some funding to create the Brookfield center in both real estate and infrastructure, which is kind of unique. And also it was just kind of time to come home. I grew up in Toronto, moved all the way till my mother-in-law. I was taking her daughter in 1988 away for a one-year master's to UBC and 30 years later, we moved back after 20 of those in the states.
Jesse (1m 36s): That's fantastic. That's another, a really good school for real estate as well. University of British Columbia is program there it's solder solder school of business. If I have that correct.
Jim (1m 46s): You got it. It was really the only place one could kind of end up if you wanted a graduate education in real estate at that time,
Jesse (1m 54s): Right on. Well, you know, once again, thanks for coming on. Part of the reason I thought listeners would get a lot of value about having you on was just some of the research themes that you've been working on and we'll jump into them. I think, you know, just to kind of Telegraph this a little bit, it's going to be a little bit about kind of the trend in real estate and commercial real estate in general, where we've gone from institutional investors and private investors. And I wa