Simon Wagner is the Founder and Managing Partner of Granite Oak, a private investment firm with over $250mm of assets across Real Estate and Venture Capital. His career spans more than 20 years of investing and entrepreneurship in financial markets and alternative investments.

On this episode, Chris and Simon discuss:

Working in mortgagebacked securities at Morgan Stanley in 2006
Developing his commercial mortgage thesis
The Irish real estate market
Planning & Entitlements

Links:
Granite Oak https://www.graniteoak.com/
Simon on X   / wagnersimonre  

Topics:
00:00:00 Intro
00:01:05 Meeting Simon and his journey to the United States
00:07:10 Working in mortgagedbacked securities at Morgan Stanley in ’06
00:21:25 Forming the commercial mortgage thesis
00:37:35 Lending Lessons learned
00:40:24 Entering the Ireland market
00:43:36 Simon’s first deal
00:55:55 Simon’s portfolio today
00:57:12 Ireland’s influx of foreign capital and housing shortages
01:06:34 Fundraising
01:13:28 Planning and entitlements

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