Membership Qualifications

Qualified Institutional Investors – Complimentary Membership
This category is reserved for individuals employed by a public, corporate or union pension fund organization, foundation or endowment, with responsibility for real estate investment strategy or decision-making. Sovereign wealth funds, family offices, outsourced CIO organizations and government officials may also qualify for complimentary membership. A government official is defined as a federal, state, local or city-level government employee focused on the policymaking, planning, and/or funding/financing of real estate projects, as well as legislators and their staff. This definition does not include pension/benefit plan administrators.

Investment Managers
This category is reserved for real estate investment managers serving institutional investors through separate account or fund investment vehicles with strategies that primarily involve third-party REOC partnership investments.

Real Estate Operating Companies
This category is reserved for real estate operating companies, development firms and vertically-integrated real estate investment managers/operators offering REOC partnership investment strategies (that don’t involve third-party partnerships) to institutional investors and their investment managers through specified/individual, programmatic/separate account or fund investment vehicles.

This category is reserved for other service providers in the institutional real estate investment industry including; research and advisory, investment consultants, placements agents, investment banking, lenders and mortgage brokerage, property management and leasing, legal and accounting, AEC, technology and software, and other industry associations.