Matt Slepin, Founder and Managing Partner of Terra Search Partners, was recently featured on The Registry's Real Perspectives Podcast.

The events of 2020 have galvanized all of us at Terra Search Partners to reimagine our lives, industry, and institutions in a more just and equitable way. The COVID-19 pandemic, which disproportionately affects black and brown people, has proven that it is possible to radically change our behavior to support the life and safety of others

We live in momentous times. We have been living for many months through the COVID pandemic, which has, and will continue to be a topic on Leading Voices and which, as we know, has disproportionately affected people of color in our country. Now, three weeks since the brutal killing of George Floyd was added to the long list of Black people murdered at the hands of the police, we may at long last have reached the tipping point in waking anger and the demand for change among both Black and non-Black leaders from virtually all sectors of the economy and our culture.

Terra Search Partners’ Managing Partner and Founder, Matt Slepin, joined RCLCO’s “The Best Minds in Real Estate with Gadi Kaufmann” video interview series on May 19, which explores a wide range of critical decisions chief executives across the real estate sector are facing in today’s unique and challenging times.

Globestreet Real Estate News, Apr. 3, 2018: Matt Slepin of TerraSearch Partners offers insights on how the C-suite is managing at the top of the cycle and how to be ready for what’s next.

Forbes Magazine, March 19, 2018: Though middle-of-the-pack vs big or global shops, Terra is one of the top-most US firms solely focused on real estate. Firms are vetted and ranked via a survey of 4,000 companies & 30,000 people.

My headline from the first half of the year is that our real estate world still looks stable. The cycle is absolutely long-in-the-tooth. There will be a downturn, of course, but it feels that it will be driven by outside forces, not bad behavior in the real estate or financial services sectors.

I write these words from vacation in Mexico, a few weeks after the election. I am continuing to process, process, and process, still in a fog and trying to understand our changed world of President-elect Trump, a change which challenges so many of my deep-felt values and assumptions.

Terra Search Partners Hires Real Estate Executive Gregory J. Melanson as new Managing Director to Increase East Coast Presence

Nearly a decade removed from one of the largest downturns in market history, it might be easy to forget the hard lessons taught. Everyone in the apartment industry knows that this is one of the sweetest times in one of the best markets in the history of our sector. No exaggeration, right? The fundamentals are great. Rental versus ownership is back to an all-time high.