We need more housing supply. But the challenge for developers — and the investors who back them — is to determine how to deliver that supply at rental rates that will actually be affordable to those who need it.

As maintained in the second part of this series of articles (see pages 27–30 of Institutional Real Estate Europe January 2020), investors in the euro zone should appreciate certain risks that the euro itself introduces.

Even in the era of the mega-fund, institutional real estate investors have evolving investment needs where placement agents can play a unique role. Recently, Institutional Real Estate Asia Pacific senior editor Jennifer Molloy spoke with a number of placement agent experts.