Business Talk With Chalfin
Please join Robert Chalfin during Business Talk with Chalfin as he speaks with business owners, experts, academics, authors, and other professionals on topics that are critical to your business and you. Bob is an attorney, CPA, and a Lecturer in Management at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania where he teaches graduate-level courses on acquiring closely held businesses and real estate entrepreneurship to MBA candidates. He has been the recipient of several Wharton Teaching Excellence Awards. He is an owner/investor of several closely held businesses, developed real estate, and has been the Court-appointed receiver and fiscal agent of several businesses. He is the author of the books, A Practical Guide to Selling a Business (2022), A Practical Guide to Buying a Business (2020), and Selling Your IT Business: Valuation, Finding the Right Buyer, and Negotiating the Deal. (2006). Mr. Chalfin is the CEO of The Chalfin Group Inc., a Metuchen, New Jersey-based firm that offers advisory services in connection with the purchase and sale of closely held businesses, strategic planning, and valuation.
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Friday Feb 24, 2023
Friday Feb 24, 2023
On the first episode of Business Talk with Chalfin, Bob discusses the state of the housing market with Lesley Deutch, Managing Principal at John Burns Real Estate Consulting.
Lesley Deutch leads all custom consulting projects in the Southeast. She has more than 25 years of experience consulting with executives in the finance and real estate industries throughout North America. She works across a wide spectrum of industries including apartments, for-sale housing, high-rise development, urban projects, single-family rental, building products and commercial developments.
Previously, she spent eight years on Wall Street working in public finance for Lehman Brothers and as a Vice President in the Global Real Estate division of Bankers Trust and Deutsche Bank, where she authored reports on real estate and economic conditions in the major US metropolitan areas and conducted due diligence for the investment bank, the CMBS team, and the Deutsche Bank Mezzanine Fund. She then moved to the research team at RREEF (owned by Deutsche Bank), writing quarterly updates on RREEF’s existing properties and due diligence reports for acquisitions on the East Coast.
Lesley holds a B.S. from the Wharton School and a B.A. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.