The commercial real estate landscape in 2024 includes trends that challenge common perceptions. While headlines often paint a broad picture of declining office demand, a closer look reveals a more nuanced reality. At the same time, retail and live-work-play developments are being built at unprecedented scales. This webinar explores the surprising dynamics shaping the market. Key areas of discussion will include:
Our speakers, Eric T. Kilchenstein, Esq., Sheehan Phinney, and Matthew Lefebvre, Principal and Broker at Downtown Realty, will tackle the market from their first-hand experiences, revealing what viewers can expect in the often counterintuitive commercial market during the rest of 2024 and beyond.
This webinar was held on Thursday, September 12, 2024.
Eric KilchensteinEric Kilchenstein’s practice includes commercial real estate, commercial finance and general corporate work across numerous industry sectors. He has diverse and extensive experience representing businesses of all sizes, non-profits, lending institutions and individuals. In his commercial real estate practice, he advises clients on the purchase, financing, sale, leasing and development of commercial real estate. On commercial finance matters, he advises borrowers and institutional or private equity lenders. On corporate and general business matters he advises clients on formation, general contract review and negotiation, regulatory compliance, franchise agreements, mergers, sales and acquisitions, financing, land use, development and leasing matters.
Matthew LefebvreMatthew Lefebvre is a young, passionate real estate entrepreneur, who at the time of earning his real estate license at 18 years old, was the youngest real estate licensee in the State of New Hampshire. After several years in the real estate business working in investment sales and commercial leasing, Lefebvre founded his own firm Downtown Realty, headquartered in Bedford, NH.
Over the course of his career, Lefebvre has transacted on over $150,000,000 in real estate ranging from leasing small businesses their first storefront to selling portfolios of apartment buildings spanning multiple towns. He specializes in investment sales, retail and development throughout New Hampshire. Additionally, Lefebvre is a real estate investor himself and is one of the founding partners of Red Brick Investments. He is the Past President of the New Hampshire Real Estate Investors Association (NHREIA), a member of the Certified Commercial Investment Member Institute (CCIM), a member of the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) and serves on the board of directors of the New Hampshire Commercial Investment Board of Realtors (NHCIBOR).
Outside of real estate, Lefebvre enjoys spending time outdoors, hiking, camping and rock climbing. His passion for the outdoors is rooted in his involvement in Scouting as a youth where he earned his Eagle Scout rank at Troop 22 in Amherst, NH. He continues to volunteer and support the Daniel Webster Council of Scouting America, serving on their executive board currently as the Vice President of Special Events & Fund Development.
Charles (Chuck) ThibedeauAfter more than 30 years, Chuck Thibedeau, President of Integrated Realty Resources, LLC (IRR), has become a sought-after subject matter expert in commercial real estate in the Greater Manchester, New Hampshire area. Having turned millions of square feet of undervalued property into viable commercial real estate, he believes that if you love the business, creative solutions come easily. It is this trademark viewpoint that earns him the trust among tenants, investors, property owners, and brokers. He views every property as though it were part of his own portfolio, and that a successful transaction is one where everybody wins.
He is client-focused and market-savvy, and is results-driven when approaching every opportunity. This is proven in his experience with bricks and mortar, an aptitude for advanced financial and market analysis, strategic vision, and grounded practicality. Thibedeau’s talent for understanding trends in the commercial real estate market can be seen in his heightened awareness in movement from converting office space to residential space, construction pricing, and the impact of current interest rates, among other relevant aspects of the commercial real estate vertical.
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