Now is a good time to invest capital into core real estate due to strong property fundamentals — solid occupancy and consistent income — according to Blaise Keane, executive vice president for Heitman’s North American Portfolio & Asset Management group and senior portfolio manager for Heitman America Real Estate Trust (HART), and Amy Krass, senior vice president for Heitman’s North American Portfolio & Asset Management group and assistant portfolio manager for HART.
In an interview published in the November issue of Institutional Real Estate Americas, Keane and Krass discuss the nuances in Heitman’s approach to investing in the evolving category of core real estate.
“We look to a few high-level themes to guide our investment decisions,” says Keane. “These themes include a focus on assets and sectors that have a lower capital expenditure investment requirement, those that have higher operating margins, those that are generally lower bet
