Paul Daneshrad

  Paul Daneshrad's Starpoint Properties As a potential  investor , you face a delicate balancing act every time you consider a real estate project. It’s called the principle of asymmetrical returns: controlling risks on the one hand while ensuring high returns on the other. At billion-dollar-plus companies like Paul Daneshrad’s StarPoint Properties in Los Angeles, it’s the way successful businesses operate day in and day out. “Assets are priced for eternal delight a n d negative real interest rates lasting forever,” Crispin Odey declared at the start of his December 2020 letter to investors of the OEI Mac fund. The $170 million fund lost -3% in December, according to a copy of an investor tear sheet, which ValueWalk has been able to review.  Read More What should you know about asymmetrical returns and how can you use it to your advantage? We put that and other questions to  Paul Daneshrad , a nationally-recognized leader in commercial  real estate , to uncover ...

  Business management teams are the rudders that guide your company’s course into the future. Their task is to steer you away from bad decisions and take you safely in profitable directions. But how do successful companies ensure their management teams know what they’re doing? What are the top qualifications of not just good managers, but great ones? Paul Daneshrad , one of the foremost experts   in the nationwide commercial real estate industry, has built a company from the ground up that controls over 1 billion in assets. Daneshrad has been one of the industry’s most influential thought leaders for the last several decades. With not only an innate ability to find unique and profitable real estate acquisitions, he has an undeniable talent for building a strong team around him. We were fortunate enough to have the opportunity to sit down with Daneshrad to get his perspective on building strong management teams. First a very basic question: How do you find good people? What cri...

  Paul Daneshrad As an investor, you already know that some investment opportunities succeed while many fail. Are there common causes that turn a deal sour? Are there “deal killers” that prospective investors tend to overlook? Taking it one step further, what should investors look for in the investment firm that offers these deals? We put these and related questions to Paul Daneshrad , CEO of StarPoint Properties, the billion-dollar investment firm located in California but serving a nationwide market. Daneshrad is a recognized expert and pre-eminent thought leader in commercial real estate investment. Paul, in your experience, what’s the number one reason so many real estate investments do not measure up to their perceived potential?   Daneshrad: That’s easy: poor underwriting and risk assessment. I’ve seen so many deals in the past 25 years that looked really promising at first glance. But then we examined them closer, much closer, and found major reasons to pass on the oppo...