Richard Chilcott is a Principal with the Avison Young Capital Markets Group providing acquisition and disposition services of investment properties to financial institutions, REIT’s, private investors and pension funds. Richard began his career in 1991 with Hans House Group, a private investment and development company based in London, England. Since joining Avison Young’s Toronto Capital Markets Group in 2001 Richard has been involved with transactions totalling in excess of $5 billion. In over 25 years of commercial real estate practice Richard has completed a wide variety of real estate transactions ranging from smaller private client businesses to more complex portfolio transactions

In this episode we talked about:

• Richard’s Bio & Background
• The transition from the USA to Canada
• First Notable Transaction
• Corporate Real Estate
• The Impact on Richard’s Business over the last 2 years
• Comparison between Surburban and Downtown Office
• Interest Rates Environment
• Real Estate Industry Outlook
• Richard’s Advice to Beginners in Real Estate
• Mentorship, Resources and Lessons Learned

Useful links:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-chilcott-946b5a3/?originalSubdomain=ca

Transcription:

Jesse (0s): Welcome to the working capital real estate podcast. My name's Jessica 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. Ladies and gentlemen, my name's Jessica galley, and you're listening to working capital the real estate podcast. My guest today is Richard Chicot. Richard is a principal with Avis and young capital markets group providing acquisition and disposition services of investment properties to financial institutions, res private investors and pension funds.

Richard began his career in 1991 with the Hans house group. We now know that there's over 25 years of commercial real estate experience. And Richard has completed a wide variety of real estate transactions ranging from smaller private client business to much more complex portfolio transactions, Richard, how's it going?

Richard (1m 2s): Great. Thanks Jess. It's good to be here. That's a great intro. And it, it, it does seem like I've been here a long time. If you say

Jesse (1m 8s): 19 91, 19 91. So you you've, you know that it's funny, a lot of the investors, you know, you won't work with certain sponsors of deals unless you've been through some version of oh eight or 90, you know, their early nineties or some sort of recession to, to kind of understand that the, that we, we live in a cyclical real estate environment.

Richard (1m 29s): Yeah, it totally is cyclical. What we're in right now, I think is, is different and a bit more challenging. And I don't have a longevity for that. So I've actually been trying to find some sort of the people who are senior to me and some of, some of the mentors I've had over the years, days, what happens during inflationary periods. That's an interesting,

Jesse (1m 49s): Yeah, you don't, you're saying you don't remember the panic of 1907.

Richard (1m 54s): No, no. Although someone the other day suggested I should know what was going o