Bottoms up at CREFC Miami

The CRE Finance Council’s annual Miami Beach conference kicked off todayat the Fontainebleau Hotel with an energy reflective of the buoyant real estate markets. A 10:30 a.m. networking break after the first official panelist forum saw a swarm of industry experts exchanging pleasantries and sowing the seeds of a new year’s deals. "We're all here to make money, right?" one delegate put it bluntly. Some were already already holding down positions at the hotel’s grandiose circular bar . (Was it really water in that martini glass?).