When several of Sam Tenenbaum's colleagues from brokerage Cushman & Wakefield descended last week on Austin, Texas, the local resident knew just where to take them for a taste of the city's food scene.
Tenenbaum, head of multifamily insights at Cushman, took them to Suerte, a restaurant featuring traditional Mexican dishes. He picked the spot, he said, because Chef Fermín Nuñez was nominated for a James Beard award this year and named one of Food and Wine's best new chefs in 2021. It's also on East 6th Street in the heart of East Austin, an area Tenenbaum said is the city's "coolest neighborhood" and where he lives.
"It's one of the best restaurants in Austin and to me, offers a very authentically Austin experience," Tenenbaum said in an email. He previously worked at CoStar Group.
The Cushman team was in the Texas capital for a real estate editors conference, where Tenenbaum delivered his assessment of the national apartment market. By the way, he said it's a great time to be a renter because interest rates are driving up homeownership costs, and apartment vacancies are higher than in the past.