Sam Tenenbaum is Senior Economist and Head of Multifamily Insights at Cushman & Wakefield, where his research spans capital markets analysis and multifamily across the institutional CRE spectrum. His capital markets work covers all major asset classes, concentrating on debt market dynamics, capital formation, and cycle positioning. His multifamily research draws on Cushman & Wakefield's management portfolio of more than 170,000 units and is published through the firm's research platforms, including Market Matters and the quarterly MarketBeat series.

Sam began his career at GID Investment Advisers, working on international real estate research with a focus on Latin American markets before moving into institutional CRE consulting at Property & Portfolio Research (PPR), one of the nation's preeminent real estate consulting firms and a CoStar company. At PPR he delivered forecasts, feasibility studies, investment strategy reports, and pitch books for institutional clients across office, multifamily, and retail markets throughout North America. He then joined the founding team at CoStar Market Analytics, helping build the analytical infrastructure that became one of the industry's most widely used market intelligence platforms. The approach has been the same throughout: build the data infrastructure, then write the analysis.

Sam's research has reached audiences well beyond institutional CRE. He has presented for the Dallas Federal Reserve, testified before the Texas Senate Committee on Business and Commerce, and spoken at ULI, Trepp Connect, and The Rent Roll with Jay Parsons. He also works directly with investors and operators on a select basis: building investment frameworks from the ground up, running strategy sessions on market positioning and capital allocation, developing proprietary market selection models, and consulting on demographic trends for major U.S. cities.