The Real Deal’s special 20th anniversary issue is live for subscribers!

Welcome to April and a special anniversary issue of The Real Deal. It was twenty years ago this month that publisher Amir Korangy launched TRD out of his Brooklyn apartment, laying the foundation for what would quickly become the real estate industry’s publication of record.

For all that’s changed since then, much has remained the same.

“News is still news. The thrill of a scoop doesn’t go away, nor does the satisfaction you feel after putting out an in-depth story you know will make the market more honest,” Korangy writes in his publisher’s letter, “Most important, the mantra we’ve built The Real Deal upon hasn’t changed, the lens through which we deliver all our news, analysis, interviews, panels and so much else: readers first.“

As part of our 20th anniversary package, editor-in-chief and CEO Stuart Elliott reflects on two decades of war stories from covering the industry’s biggest deals and dealmakers, editorial director Hiten Samtani opens the archives for a look at some of TRD’s most industry-defining stories, we unearth the most memorable exchanges from more than 15 years of “The Closing” interviews with the real estate’s top players and much more.

Elsewhere in the issue, we rank New York’s top residential brokerage teams — across both new development deals and resales — deliver a blow-by-blow account of the lending crisis that rocked commercial real estate, examine office-to-residential conversions in Downtown L.A., break down the powerful labor groups that shape the NYC skyline and look at some of the problems facing South Florida developers with looming loan maturities.

We also have a full slate of new profile subjects, including tech billionaire Michael Dell’s MSD Partners, the “Sultans of Sprawl” building entire towns in Texas and a pair of Miami condo developers who envision one of the world’s largest warehouse projects near the edge of the California desert.

All of these stories and many more are now live for TRD subscribers, so subscribe today and check out the new issue here.