Jay Maddox

Upping Your Ground Lease Game, Part III

By Jay Maddox, Principal, Avison Young: The last of the three-part series explores why ground-lease financing is an attractive alternative to conventional financing or sale of a property.

Upping Your Ground Lease Game, Part II

By Jay Maddox, Principal, Avison Young: The legal and business issues involving commercial property ground leases are complex—and sometimes baffling.

Upping Your Ground Lease Game, Part I

By Jay Maddox, Principal, Avison Young: Why a leasehold structure may offer more cost-efficient financing in the long run.

Finance Column: Are We in a Bubble?

By Jay Maddox, Principal, Avison Young: While most CRE forecasts for 2016 show strong market fundamentals, lenders and investors should be cautious.

Finance Column: Filling the Gap Through Mezzanine Financing

By Jay Maddox, Principal, Avison Young: When is mezzanine debt financing a better bet than preferred equity?

Filling the Gap Through a Preferred Equity Strategy

By Jay Maddox, Principal, Avison Young: When to prefer preferred equity?

JV Equity—Breaking Through the Glass Ceiling

By Jay Maddox, Principal, Avison Young: Find out why up-and-coming developers are bumping against a proverbial “glass ceiling” and what they could do about overcoming it.

Can Zombies Come Back to Life?

By Jay Maddox, Principal, Avison Young: One doesn’t hear much about real estate zombies, but they do in fact exist.

Passing the Torch – Plan Now or Pay Later

By Jay Maddox, Principal, Avison Young: Why having an imminent management succession plan is important.

To Defease or Not to Defease? That is the Question

By Jay Maddox, Principal, Avison Young: Find out if defeasance is right for you.