Best Minds: Randall Zisler

Best Minds: Randall Zisler

From Conversations with the Best Minds in Real Estate by RCLCO Real Estate Consulting

September 23, 2025 · 46 min

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Taylor Mammen interviews Randall Zisler about mistakes in real estate investing and insights from his new book.

Best Minds: Randall Zisler September 23, 2025 By Taylor Mammen, CEO, RCLCO Fund Advisors What are the biggest mistakes in real estate investing, and how can they be avoided? In this episode of Conversations with the Best Minds in Real Estate , Taylor Mammen, CEO of RCLCO Fund Advisors, sits down with Randall Zisler, Ph.D., Co-Founder of Zisler Capital Associates, LLC, a research, investment banking and expert witness firm that serves global institutional investors and managers, about his new book Commercial Real Estate Investing: An Evidence-Based Approach to Risk Management, Strategic Valuation, and Enhanced Returns . “The book is about, well, let me put it this way: it’s not an attack. I think attack is the wrong word. I would call it a full frontal critique of an industry that has been slow to join the capital markets, and what I focus on [in particular] is the conspicuous inattention to risk.” – Randall on what to expect from the book, and why he wrote it Randall discusses his career path through real estate and academia, detailing experiences that inspired him to write the book, including the biggest myths and mistakes he has observed over his career, what can be…

People in this episode

Host: Taylor Mammen

Guest: Randall Zisler

Topics covered

  • real estate investing
  • risk management
  • strategic valuation
  • myths and mistakes
  • career path
  • political context

Keywords

  • real estate
  • investing
  • risk
  • valuation
  • myths
  • mistakes
  • political context

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: RCLCO Fund Advisors, Zisler Capital Associates, LLC

Books & works: Commercial Real Estate Investing: An Evidence-Based Approach to Risk Management, Strategic Valuation, and Enhanced Returns

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