Jun 15, 2026 · 23m · paul-morris
URGENT SHIFT: Digital Wealth is Dying and Real Estate Holds the Key!
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Paul Mark Morris examines the massive capital shift away from disrupted SaaS companies toward physical real estate driven by agentic AI. He outlines strategic investment opportunities across data center infrastructure, distressed multifamily housing, and emerging secondary migration markets.
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Morris: Capital leaving SaaS will rotate into hard assets and real estate
“Huge shift in the way internet and online investing is taking place, and really that shift, a lot of it, I believe, will go to hard assets, and that definitely includes real estate.”
Morris: Mike Lazzaro sold his company to Salesforce for $785M
“This particular entrepreneur, ah, built several massive businesses selling software, selling products on the internet, selling software as a service, and in fact, he sold his company to Salesforce, For seven hundred and eighty five million dollars. And if you …”
Morris: OpenAI Hired the Creator of OpenClaw After a Bidding War
“And in fact, it created a bidding war for this particular gentleman who created it, who has now gone to open AI. So the creator, The former employee of Claude that created Claude bought separately has now been hired by OpenAI.”
Morris: Salesforce lost $158B in market valuation by March 2026
“Salesforce, which was 16 months ago worth three hundred and thirty seven billion dollars. Today in March 2026 is worth a hundred and seventy nine billion dollars. That's a hundred and fifty eight billion dollars worth of value erased.”
Morris: Seat-based SaaS business model is broken by agentic AI
“This is a business model that's worked for 20 years, and the market is looking at this and saying the business model is broken, and it's broken by Open Claw in combination with AI and what Open Claw can do with AI.”
Morris: Data center REITs yield 2-3% dividend and are up 17-20% YTD
“And they're running at like a two to three percent dividend, but year to date up, you know, 17 to 20%.”
Morris: Multifamily construction starts have dropped 70% from their peak
“New multifamily construction starts are down 70% from their peak. One of the lowest levels in multifamily starts since 2013.”
Morris: $126B in multifamily loans mature in 2026, up 56% year-over-year
“Multi-family loan maturities jumped 56% in twenty-twenty-six versus twenty-twenty-five. A hundred and twenty-six billion in multi-family loans are maturing in twenty-twenty-six.”
Morris: Distressed apartment sales reached nearly $14B in the trailing 12 months
“Distressed apartment sales The volume is now almost fourteen billion dollars in the last rolling 12 months. That's up nearly a billion dollars from 20 20.”
Morris: AI job creation is concentrating in secondary metropolitan markets
“AI related job creation, concentrating in secondary Metros, not just San Francisco, LA, New York City.”
Morris: AI will disrupt office real estate but never housing
“AI is disrupting office real estate, but AI cannot and will never disrupt the fundamental need for housing.”