Institutional Real Estate Americas
Institutional Real Estate Americas is a monthly publication for institutional investors in real estate — pension plans, foundations and endowments — and the consultants and real estate investment managers who serve them. With an emphasis on insights and analysis, the publication provides information about the people, events and trends driving this market. Features cover portfolio management, investment strategy and capital flows, with a focus on supporting the staff and investment committee members of public and corporate pension plans, foundations, and endowments. Every issue also contains lists of recent commitments and new fund offerings; people moves and promotions; and news and data about real estate fundraising and investment activity.
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Issues from 2018
July
- The proptech revolution: Real estate technology firms are on a roll
- The proptech landscape
- Driving ahead: How advances in transportation are shaping the future of real estate
- Headwinds and tailwinds: Navigating the potential transition to different conditions for property markets worldwide
- The ESG-ranked universe: A new index to measure ESG for global real estate securities
- Small is beautiful: How aggregating smaller multifamily properties allows institutions to tap into urban cores
- A Burger King conundrum: The high cost of having it your way
- Fed increases rates in June, as outlook appears balanced
- Retail investment sales activity falls in start of year
- Global real estate AUM increases in 2017
- OCERS approves preliminary plan for real estate portfolio
- Debt funds increased market share in 2017
June
- Going up: Interest rates are rising. What will that do to real estate in the foreseeable future?
- Interest rates: How high, how fast?
- Pricing factors: Understanding liquidity in an illiquid asset class
- The macro bet: Investment implications of rental-housing dynamics
- A tale of two sectors: Real estate returns diverge in first quarter
- Data security: Make sure your ‘big data’ headline isn’t about a big data breach
- You get what you pay for: Thoughts on today’s core property markets
- Warehouse REITs to be acquired in two mega-deals
- REITs may provide insights into private real estate pricing
- 2018 sees flight to safety among international real estate investors
- Economic indicators suggest good news for investors
- Transaction volume exceeds expectations in Q1 2018
- Global/multi-regional funds bounce back
May
- Built for wellness: Investors are developing properties to keep tenants healthy — and happy
- Linking wellness and sustainability
- Why now? Health, well-being and the evolution of ESG
- The age of disruption: Handling real estate investment underwriting challenges
- Taking the plunge: Key considerations for joint ventures with developers
- Sunny, but clouds on the horizon: Where the lodging market stands in 2018
- Food for thought: Investors and managers collaborate on questions (and answers?) for the industry
- Renting the new American dream: Trends affecting the residential market
- The granddaddy of all surveys? Introducing the 22nd in our series of investor sentiment assessments
- Housing markets see gains across rental and for-sale categories
- Argentina sees largest real estate deal in at least a decade
- Industrial investment volume on the rise
- Tightening the spigot of Chinese capital flows
- Fed increases rates by a quarter point
- Fundraising totals move up in first quarter
April
- Brick and mortar: The future of retail in an era of changing technology and consumer tastes
- Four myths about retail: Separating myth from reality to understand opportunities in today’s retail sector
- All about that bass: Shifting structures and changing demographics are remaking the retirement landscape, with implications for real estate investment
- The macro bet: U.S. rental housing is an $8 trillion sector bet
- New challenges: A tale of two (kinds of) plans
- What’s wrong with housing? An inconvenient truth, or the failure to make choices
- Steel tariffs could raise cost of real estate development
- IMRF increases real estate exposure to 9% of plan assets
- Record global debt gives rise to concern
- REITs helped by leaning in
- Global gateway cities in the past decade
- Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund invests in Latin America
- Stock market drop hits REITs in February
- Investors remain satisfied with real estate
March
- In search of greener pastures: North American investors seek value and diversification in Europe
- Co-working: Investors are taking note of the shared-office-space trend
- Tax and the city: Metro-level impacts of tax reform
- Economic clusters: Using economic clusters to better enhance real estate returns and manage risk
- Upbeat: Commercial real estate returns end year with positive momentum
- Head of the class: Putting student housing at the center of mixed-use communities
- Keeping PACE: Property-assessed clean energy financing is a game changer for commercial real estate
- Things that go “bump” in the night: Themes arising from our Editorial Advisory Board meetings around the globe
- Real estate industry begins to look toward the blockchain for solutions
- Real estate secondary volume increases year-over-year
- Real estate executives crown industrial as king in 2018
- Global property investment totals $873b in 2017
- CalPERS’ real estate returns 7.8% year-over-year
- Taconic, Clarion form JV to pursue affordable housing
- Hotel investors express renewed confidence
- Fundraising times inch downward
February
- Getting real: Institutional investors create single allocations for real assets strategies
- A core opening: New Asia Pacific core open-end funds attest to the growing appeal of the region to long-term investors
- Late-cycle investing: Operating skills step to the fore
- Good partners: With more GPs and strategies available today, what are institutional investors looking for in a GP in 2018?
- Suburban shift: Three reasons office investors are shifting their focus to secondary markets surrounding urban cores
- Shop talk: A conversation with John Levy
- In real time: The value of data and new transparency expectations
- In focus: Highlights from the past year
- ESG defended at CalPERS
- Real estate investment opportunities in 2018
- Canadian pension plans nearly fully funded at year-end
- U.S. adds 148,000 jobs in December
- REITs underperformed broader stock market in 2017
- CalPERS establishes new asset allocations
- Industrial named strongest property sector of 2017
- CPPIB JV buys $1.1b student-housing portfolio
- 2017 ends with a whimper
January
- Break on through: As we look ahead to 2018, where are the opportunities? And where are the challenges?
- What, we worry? Office development performs a balancing act
- Fire and rain: Investing in the era of extreme weather and climate change
- Logistics facilities in the age of technological climate change
- Outlook 2018: What do Asia Pacific property markets hold for investors this year?
- Very thin ice, indeed: The warning signs are there for all to see
- KPERS sets investment pacing objectives for 2018
- U.S. economy continues moderate growth
- CMBS delinquency rate drops in November
- At the hotel, motel, Airbnb
- HGI acquires $1.8b apartment portfolio
- Popping up for the holidays
- Investors appear to wait and see