Accompanying this month’s issue is our survey of investor sentiment, the 2018 Institutional Investors Real Estate Trends. These results were previewed by the sponsoring firms of Institutional Real Estate, Inc. at our Sponsor Briefing in February, and a summary of the findings from the annual investor survey was included in the April issue of this publication.

This is the 22nd edition of this report, which we have been producing continuously since it was introduced at our very first sponsor briefing in 1996.

What is a “sponsor,” you might ask? Well, since inception, this publication has been made available at no cost on a controlled-circulation basis to qualified institutional real estate investors, which has grown to mean not only pension funds, endowments and foundations, but also insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds and large, professionally managed family offices. Since 1990, the costs for this service have been underwritten by the investment m