Real conversations. Real deals. Real frameworks.
Each month Brian Barbuto goes live with investors, developers, and operators to break down how real estate development actually works — from capital structure to deal anatomy to the decisions most people never see.
Reserve your seat for Brian's next live session. These are free, educational, and built around real deals — not theory.
Most investors spend their careers evaluating finished properties. The most successful ones participate in creating them. Brian walks through a real, active development deal as a live case study — showing exactly how it's structured, where each layer of capital sits, and where value is created long before a building is stabilized.
Most investors only ever climb in at the top — the finished asset, the stabilized return. They never see what’s underneath it. There’s a ladder beneath every real estate deal — raw land, entitlement, structure, capital, and execution — and the rungs nearest the bottom are where the most extraordinary returns are created. Brian walks you from the bottom rung up, using a real, active development as the case study.
Most investors overestimate risk in the wrong places and underestimate it in the right ones. The result is a portfolio built on perception rather than reality. Brian breaks down how sophisticated investors actually define and measure risk — and why the deals that look the most dangerous on the surface are often the most protected at the structure level.
Developers don’t wait for the market to tell them where value is — they create it. In this session, Brian reveals the exact mental framework developers use to evaluate opportunity before anyone else sees it: the five questions they ask, the signals they read, and the step-by-step approach that separates insider thinking from retail investing.
Missed a live session? Watch the full replay at your own pace and apply the frameworks to your next deal.
Brian Barbuto and Lori Greymont break down how development deals are structured, where value is created, and what most investors never see.
Brian walks from the bottom rung up — raw land, entitlement, structure, capital, and execution — and shows where the most extraordinary returns are created.
Brian breaks down how sophisticated investors actually define and measure risk — and why the deals that look most dangerous on the surface are often the most protected at the structure level.