Concordia’s Michael Flight gets together with Billy Keels of the Going Long Podcast. In this show, Billy and Michael discuss the basics of retail real estate investing. They consider the challenges and opportunities that have arisen from the evolution and transformation of retail space. Michael also explains to Billy that some retail real estate investments are absolutely thriving and how Concordia Equity Partners are launching a NNN fund in August 2020 to create stable cash flow and wealth for US and International investors.

Michael also shares his discoveries he made while traveling in Europe about some of the unique benefits for US based investors that are looking to invest in European retail space before giving a thorough overview of the fundamentals of investing in retail real estate. 

This show will particularly interest those who are looking to invest in retail and commercial real estate for the first time. 

The conversation wraps up with how retail real estate investments can give you the opportunity to help the surrounding community.

Billy Keels is real estate entrepreneur, author, coach, mentor and founder of KeePon Cashflow. KeePon Cashflow focuses on investing capital and builds bridges between buyers, sellers and investors in Spain and surrounding countries to profitable properties in the USA. Author of Grow Your Money The Smart Way, Billy began hosting this podcast June 2020 to educate people on different types of real estate investments and strategies for investing in the nation. Billy has also been working for the world’s leading company in application software, SAP, since 2006 and is currently a Key Account Manager there where he helps a number of Spain’s largest IBEX 35 Hospitality and Media Companies achieve their corporate goals.

Michael J. Flight is a real estate entrepreneur who is an expert in commercial real estate, especially shopping center investment and NNN retail real estate.  Michael has been active in commercial real estate for the past 35 years and has handled more than $600 million worth of real estate transactions. Michael Flight is a founding principal of Concordia Realty Corporation, Concordia Equity Partners LLC and more recently Liberty Global Real Estate Fund, a net leased property fund curated to create a conservative, safe haven portfolio of long term, Single-Tenant Net-Leased properties designed for geographic diversification, tenant credit diversification and industry diversification. Michael has been featured on many business podcasts, served on numerous non-profit boards, held elected office, and shared as a featured speaker on real estate investment, poverty alleviation, and free markets. He is also an Amazon #1 Best Selling author with the book DESIRE, DISCIPLINE & DETERMINATION: LESSONS FROM BOLD THOUGHT LEADERS 

Concordia Realty Corporation has been successfully connecting sound economics with experience in real estate for more than 30 years.  Our wide range of experience has uniquely positioned us to redevelop and repurpose properties that are experiencing disruptions related to technology and merchandising.  This experience has built a skill-set that helps to add value to all of our real estate ventures.

More recently, Concordia Equity Partners LLC was created to provide the same investment opportunities and expertise that our institutional partners have enjoyed over the years.  We are a premier private real estate investment and management firm that specializes in Retail Real Estate, including Shopping Centers and Single-Tenant Net-Lease properties.  Our newest venture is Liberty Real Estate Fund (ILibertyFund.io) a blockchain based security token fund. LibertyFund is focused on investing in high quality, well located Single-Tenant Net-Leased (NNN) properties in targeted high growth, low tax areas of the United States.  The portfolio has been specifically designed to provide stable, recession resistant income combined with inflation protected wealth preservation and equity growth.