#113 The $30B market hiding within dealerships, How private equity values car lots, Dealership real estate tax hacks and sale-leasebacks | Mark Pomella, Vice President at SAB Capital

Welcome to the Car Dealership Guy Podcast. In this episode, I'm speaking with Mark Pomella, Vice President at SAB Capital where we discuss: The $30B market hiding within dealerships, How private equity values car lots, Dealership real estate tax hacks and much more. This episode of the Car Dealership Guy Podcast is brought to you by: OPENLANE - The world’s best online dealer marketplace for used cars, bringing you exclusive inventory, simple transactions, and better outcomes. New to OPENLANE? Sign up now and receive a $350 buy fee credit. Learn more at https://www.openlane.com/ Cars Commerce - The platform to simplify everything about buying and selling cars. Learn more at https://www.carscommerce.inc/ SAB Capital -SAB Capital is a brokerage powerhouse of experienced investment sales professionals providing advisory services that create an impact across a variety of sectors and asset classes consisting of Net Lease, Retail, Industrial, Affordable Housing, Leasing, 1031, Sale Leaseback, and Capital Markets. Learn more at https://www.sabcap.com/ Interested in advertising with Car Dealership Guy? Drop us a line here Interested in being considered as a guest on the podcast? Add your name here Topics: (00:00:00) - Intro (00:01:38) - The state of the commercial real estate market today (00:04:16) - Mark’s role at SAB Capital (00:05:48) - What are sale lease-backs? (00:07:30) - Why are dealers looking to sell their real estate as a form of financing? (00:09:48) - What is a dealer paying on average in a mortgage as a percentage of sales? (00:12:19) - Are you targeting any specific regions of the country? (00:18:51) - How does selling the real estate impact the value of the dealership? (00:22:02) - Tax consequences (00:23:05) - How do sales impact the experience of the facility?  (00:25:13) - What regions and brands are performing well right now? (00:27:09) - Who are the people buying these properties (00:32:01) - How are you getting deals across the table in this market state (00:33:22) - Closing thoughts Check out SAB Capital here. Check out Car Dealership Guy’s stuff: CDG News - https://news.dealershipguy.com/ CDG Jobs - https://jobs.dealershipguy.com/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/cardealershipguy/ TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@guydealership X - https://x.com/GuyDealership LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/cardealershipguy/ Everything else - dealershipguy.com This podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be relied upon as a basis for investment decisions.