About Us

The best commercial real estate decisions aren't made on mainstream information. That's why we created The Real Estate Haystack.

Delivered weekly and free to subscribers, the Haystack provides valuable original content sourced from academic research that the industry otherwise never sees. We write in a succinct and actionable format: No BS, no fluff, just insights that actually move the needle for commercial real estate executives.

Here's what lands in your inbox each week:

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  • πƒπžπœπ’π¬π’π¨π§ π…π«πšπ¦πžπ°π¨π«π€π¬: We provide practical tools to evaluate opportunities with greater precision and sharpen your investment analysis.

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It turns out there’s abundant, relevant real estate insights that could raise the game just waiting to be found, but most never make it to the decision-makers who could actually use it. We're fixing that problem.

In addition to each week’s deep dive, we also flag articles we don’t want you to miss, highlight a GP we think you’d want to know about (they don’t pay us for that), and provide a little fun in each issue.

Thanks for checking us out. We’d love to hear from you. Reach us at [email protected].

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-Adam, Dan and the Haystack team

Haystack Publishers

Adam Hazlett

Adam founded Victory Investment Partners, which manages opportunistic and value-add real estate investments, primarily in Texas and Colorado. VIP also has an opportunity zone fund and a preferred equity fund. Adam’s work draws from his experience in private equity, hospitality, multifamily and commercial investing with several A-list investment firms and sponsors.Β 

Daniel Cohen

Dan spent 15 years in real estate private equity, investing primarily pension fund capital in value-add and opportunistic deals nationwide. More recently he has founded two real estate sponsors, including Sentral, an innovative multifamily platform, which he sold. Dan started out covering real estate companies as a journalist for Dow Jones.