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Howard
Altshuler
The people and decisions behind a place
A building’s value is more than its address. Howard brings owners, advisers and community leaders into conversations about financing, valuation, skilled trades and the future of real estate.
Howard Altshuler
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With Selina McUmber & Aaron Grisz
Howard and Aaron Grisz talk with Selina McUmber about valuation timing, financing costs and the judgment required when market transactions are scarce.
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Howard and Aaron Grisz talk with Selina McUmber about valuation timing, financing costs and the judgment required when market transactions are scarce.
Published articleSelina McUmber · Guest / Aaron Grisz · Co-host
Original on MarketScale ↗Location Cubed
With Dan Thomas & Aaron Grisz
Dan Thomas joins Howard and Aaron to discuss leverage, lender relationships and lessons from several real-estate market cycles.
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Dan Thomas joins Howard and Aaron to discuss leverage, lender relationships and lessons from several real-estate market cycles.
Published articleDan Thomas · Guest / Aaron Grisz · Co-host
Original on MarketScale ↗Location Cubed
With Randy Humphrey & Aaron Grisz
Randy Humphrey explains how employee ownership and training shape a contracting business—and why the supply of skilled people matters to growth.
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Randy Humphrey explains how employee ownership and training shape a contracting business—and why the supply of skilled people matters to growth.
Published articleRandy Humphrey · Guest / Aaron Grisz · Co-host
Original on MarketScale ↗Location Cubed
With James Hill & Aaron Grisz
James Hill joins Howard and Aaron to connect practical real-estate education with the water infrastructure North Texas needs for sustained growth.
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James Hill joins Howard and Aaron to connect practical real-estate education with the water infrastructure North Texas needs for sustained growth.
Published articleJames Hill · Guest / Aaron Grisz · Co-host
Original on MarketScale ↗THE RECORD
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32 verified MarketScale publications, including full conversations, excerpts and articles. Original publication dates and roles are retained; excerpts are not presented as distinct full episodes.
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A valuation needs a rhythm.
Selina McUmber with Howard Altshuler and Aaron Grisz
With Selina McUmber, Howard and Aaron Grisz examine why valuation cadence matters for real-estate funds. Higher financing costs and fewer transactions can make familiar comparisons less useful. The conversation connects reporting discipline with the judgment needed to understand a changing market.
Discussion prompt
Ask which assumptions changed since the last valuation and what current evidence supports them.
Financing shapes the room to maneuver.
Dan Thomas with Howard Altshuler and Aaron Grisz
Guest Dan Thomas draws on several market cycles to discuss leverage with Howard and Aaron. Borrowing can magnify returns and exposure to a downturn. The episode explores conservative financing, regular oversight and lender relationships as parts of managing a property investment through changing conditions.
Discussion prompt
Consider how a project’s financing would respond to a slower or more expensive market.
A building depends on people learning a trade.
Randy Humphrey with Howard Altshuler and Aaron Grisz
Randy Humphrey describes employee ownership and developing the next generation of skilled workers. In the conversation with Howard and Aaron, workforce availability becomes a constraint on growth. The episode connects ownership, training and retention to the practical capacity to deliver electrical and mechanical systems.
Discussion prompt
Look beyond material availability to the people needed to install and maintain a building’s systems.
Growth needs infrastructure—and experience.
James Hill with Howard Altshuler and Aaron Grisz
James Hill joins Howard and Aaron to discuss practical real-estate education and North Texas water planning. Students benefit from contact with industry professionals; growing communities need coordination over resources that cross local boundaries. The episode brings long-term capacity into a discussion often focused on the next development.
Discussion prompt
Consider the infrastructure and regional cooperation that a growing market depends on.
The details inside a building matter.
Rafael Ferrales with Howard Altshuler and Aaron Grisz
Rafael Ferrales explains how an engineering-based review of property components informs cost segregation. Howard and Aaron’s conversation connects classification, depreciation timing and intended holding periods. It is a discussion of the method and its tradeoffs, with the original episode retained for its historical tax context.
Discussion prompt
Explore the assumptions and holding-period context behind a cost-segregation analysis.
Start with what can be measured.
Ashly Pleasant with Howard Altshuler and Aaron Grisz
Ashly Pleasant discusses emissions measurement and reporting with Howard and Aaron. The episode treats sustainability information as something investors and stakeholders need to understand, not merely a statement of intent. It connects data collection with decisions about properties and their future.
Discussion prompt
Identify what is actually measured and how that information informs property decisions.
Design for the life of the building.
Howard Altshuler and Rob Nowak on Weaver: Beyond the Numbers
Howard asks what it means to build something that may remain in use for decades as weather puts new stress on property and infrastructure. His conversation with Rob Nowak brings resilience into decisions made long before an extreme event. The question is how expectations about the future should influence design today.
Discussion prompt
Which future stresses are being considered in a building intended to last for generations?
A vacant office is not automatically a home.
Howard Altshuler and Rob Nowak on Weaver: Beyond the Numbers
Howard and Rob Nowak examine office-to-residential conversion alongside the need for workforce housing. Howard cautions that changing a building’s purpose is not easy. Their discussion makes the physical and economic fit of a conversion part of the story, rather than assuming vacancy alone creates an obvious solution.
Discussion prompt
What would have to change for this particular building to work well as housing?
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BACKGROUND & EXPERIENCE
About Howard.
Partner · Real estate
Weaver
Connect on LinkedIn ↗Howard Altshuler is a Weaver partner whose work focuses on real estate. On Location Cubed, part of Weaver: Beyond the Numbers, he and Aaron Grisz talk with the people financing, building, valuing and shaping places.
His MarketScale catalog moves between the numbers inside an investment and the realities around it: the cost of debt, a shortage of comparable transactions, the tradespeople needed to build, and the infrastructure that makes growth possible. The conversations put specialists’ experience into context for a wider real-estate audience.
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About the media selection
32 verified MarketScale publications, including full conversations, excerpts and articles. Original publication dates and roles are retained; excerpts are not presented as distinct full episodes.
Summaries identify whether they use published articles or transcripts. Series attribution is distinguished from an individually checked appearance.
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