IREI : LIVE Webinar — Defining opportunity sets in real estate debt

What are the fundamental drivers of the different debt opportunity sets in the U.S. real estate market today? This webinar examined a range of different strategies across a range of markets. The webinar was broken into three panels, each featuring a group of expert speakers. Chase McWhorter, managing director, Americas, at Institutional Real Estate, Inc. moderated all panels.

In the first panel, real estate debt and the future opportunities in equity and debt spaces were discussed by Chris Duey, senior managing director, head of private debt portfolio management, at Principal Real Estate Investors; James Laufenberg, CAIA, senior investment officer – real estate, at the State of Wisconsin Investment Board; and Greg Leadholm, senior managing director, co-head of real estate debt, with Heitman.

In the second panel, key fundamentals of mezzanine and subordinated debt were examined by Tom Hester, managing director at StepStone Group Real Estate; Frank Scavone, executive m