How Peachtree Group Finds Value in Volatility with Greg Friedman (Ep. 138)

2025-07-09

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What if launching your company at the brink of the 2008 financial crisis turned out to be the smartest move you ever made? That’s exactly what happened to Greg Friedman, CEO of Peachtree Group, who joins Michael Parise on The Truth About Wealth to share how timing, adaptability, and a deep understanding of risk helped shape his firm’s rise to a national powerhouse. Greg explains how Peachtree Group invests across private credit, commercial real estate, and even film financing—always with an eye for “mispriced risk.” In this episode, he shares how they’ve made over 600 credit investments with a sub-3% foreclosure rate and how they’re navigating to...

What if launching your company at the brink of the 2008 financial crisis turned out to be the smartest move you ever made?

That’s exactly what happened to Greg Friedman, CEO of Peachtree Group, who joins Michael Parise on The Truth About Wealth to share how timing, adaptability, and a deep understanding of risk helped shape his firm’s rise to a national powerhouse.

Greg explains how Peachtree Group invests across private credit, commercial real estate, and even film financing—always with an eye for “mispriced risk.” In this episode, he shares how they’ve made over 600 credit investments with a sub-3% foreclosure rate and how they’re navigating today’s volatile interest rate environment.

What you’ll learn by listening:

Why private credit is creating rare opportunities in a tight lending market
How Peachtree underwrites risk like an owner, not just a lender
What rising interest rates really mean for real estate valuations
How tax credits and film finance are reshaping alternative investment strategies
And more!

Connect with John and Michael Parise:

856-988-8300
Copper Beech Financial Group
LinkedIn: John Parise
LinkedIn: Michael Parise
LinkedIn: Copper Beech Financial Group, LLC
Facebook: Copper Beech Financial Group, LLC

Connect with Greg Friedman:

LinkedIn: Greg Friedman
Peachtree Group

About Our Guest:

Greg has more than 23 years’ hospitality experience with an emphasis on deal structure and financing. He has successfully led Peachtree in more than $8 billion in hotel acquisitions, investments, and development since co-founding the company.

He formerly was senior vice president of business development for Specialty Finance Group, LLC, a direct lender providing hotel first mortgage and FF&E financing, where he originated more than $2 billion of hotel debt. Previously, Greg was vice president of business development for GMAC Commercial Mortgage – Asset-Backed Lending Division. During his six-year tenure, he originated, closed, and funded more than 300 hospitality FF&E financing transactions with an aggregate capital structure exceeding $10 billion.

Greg holds a Bachelor of Arts in Biology from the University of Texas at Austin.

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