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 2020
December
- That’s life: Technological advances have bolstered the life sciences sector
- Small but mighty: How emerging managers navigate the COVID-19 environment
- All in on hotelization? Real estate is transforming from a product to a service
- Subscription financing update: The state of fund finance in 2020 amid COVID-19
- Right now: The time to invest in New York City
- Turning the corner, but the future remains unclear
- 2020 inspires renewed commitment to social responsibility
- Strong performance by single-family rentals attracts investor interest
- Two retail REITs enter bankruptcy
- Transaction activity continues in the industrial sector
- Institutional real estate returns to positive territory
November
- A clearer picture: Senior housing endures despite pandemic pressures
- Rent relief: How the commercial real estate industry is approaching this issue amid the pandemic
- A guide for COVID-19 rent relief disclosures
- Single-family rental 2.0: How to achieve efficiency at scale
- A triple play: Why investors are betting on triple-net-lease assets in the COVID-19 environment
- Then and now: Lessons from 100 years ago
- Will holiday sales save the retail industry?
- Women face parenting challenges, stress in COVID-19 work environment
- Could self-storage offer alternative for ailing retail properties?
- Buyers look for discounts, but sellers hold firm
- First look at Q3 real estate fundraising
October
- Pressing pause: COVID-19’s impact on transactions has varied based on property type
- Shifting sands: The parameters of core real estate have always stretched at the end of cycles, but fundamental changes could now alter its very definition
- Core assets: The leverage lever
- Decisions, decisions: What is going on here?
- Five trends for office: What will work look like by the end of 2021?
- Responding to crisis: How we have approached the current moment
- Amid pandemic, hotels refocus on student living
- CDC’s quarantine authority invoked to ban evictions
- Biden outraises Trump among real estate donors
- Single-family rental market booms during pandemic
- The big continue to get bigger
September
- How will we work? Much about the future of office remains uncertain amid the COVID-19 pandemic
- Health and safety in an office environment
- Shop talk: A conversation with Jennifer Stevens
- Data and decision making: Infill industrial and the new era of real estate transparency
- Narrowing down the alternatives: Three megatrends in housing, healthcare and technology will support investments in alternative real estate
- Taking stock: The top 10 issues affecting real estate, 2020–2021
- A match not made in heaven: Securitization and the commercial mortgage industry
- Pivot to video: Maintaining connections in a disconnected world
- Taking the last mile to the mall
- Fed support maintains liquidity in real estate capital markets
- $40b raised by real estate funds closing in Q2 2020
- Commercial real estate returns turn negative with historic drop in rent
July
- Apocalypse now? As COVID-19 closes doors, what’s in store for retail?
- Building bridges: The outlook for real estate on the other side of the COVID-19 economic chasm
- Operating through the pandemic: On the resilience of data centers
- Second-half trends: What does the rest of 2020 hold for affordable housing?
- Suspended animation: Open-end fund redemptions?
- Implementing ESG at senior and student housing assets
- COVID-19 expected to change business as we know it
- Organizations introduce best practices for health, safety
- Telecommuting and pandemic protocols to affect future office demand
- Job losses bottom out in May
- COVID-19 poses challenges for real estate fundraising
June
- The good, the bad and the ugly: The COVID-19 pandemic will have widely varying effects across property types
- Real estate fund recapitalizations, redux: When bad balance sheets happen to good managers
- Risk geography: Early thoughts on risk across markets
- The long game: Five post-COVID-19 themes that could change everything — in real estate and in life
- The journey, inside: Working in the time of corona
- Landlords and developers prepare return-to-workplace strategies
- Construction starts fall in April amid outbreak
- Job losses in April reach levels not seen since Great Depression
- Lending markets face dislocation in current environment
- Small funds the norm: 42 new investment funds launched during Q1 2020
- Commercial real estate returns lowest since financial crisis
May
- Driving allocations: Real estate investors respond to coronavirus realities and waves of government intervention
- Sheltering in place: Rising unemployment and the federal stimulus bill have implications for apartment sector
- What now? Assessing the impacts of COVID-19 on real estate
- Eye of the storm: Early thoughts on post-pandemic scenarios for commercial real estate
- Accelerating trends: Businesses and pension plans face growing pressure to adapt in the COVID-19 era
- COVID-19 will accelerate existing trends in the REIT market
- San Francisco Employees calls on pension funds to join efforts to combat coronavirus
- Baltimore Fire & Police halts search amid pandemic
- Q1 fundraising tops $18b
April
- Flowing in: Cross-border capital continues to target U.S. real estate
- Survey says: Planned commitments to real estate shift downward in late-cycle environment
- Global standards for a global world: Greater standardization leads to greater success
- What U.S. investors should know about TGER reporting
- Ground-up economics: Uncertainties around COVID-19 loom, but ultra-accommodative central banks and occupancy gains should support a respectable year of real estate performance
- Economic contagion: Social distancing in a people-focused business
- 2020 foresight? Assessing risk in real estate requires new perspectives and shifting benchmarks
- Economies and property markets react to COVID-19
- U.S. economy adds 273,000 jobs in February
- Supply and demand trends to support last-mile logistics
- Suburban office sees falling vacancy rates
- Service-oriented tenants overtake product sellers at retail centers
- Average fund size continues to grow
March
- Mi casa is too costly: Affordable housing poses challenges for investors, developers and communities
- The REIT alternative: How REITs might fit into investors’ real estate allocations
- Wealth and prosperity: How real estate can deliver compelling capital growth and long-term income streams for family offices’ multigenerational ambitions
- Mixed-use, remixed: Mixed-use is an old idea making a comeback in a remixed form that meets the needs of the workforce integral to the digital economy
- At issue: The world as our readers see it
- VIP Americas 2020 promises a year of foresight
- Investor confidence in proptech remains high
- Investor interest in logistics sector remains strong
- Real estate secondary volume hits $7.2b in 2019
- CalSTRS affirms commitment to low-carbon economy
- Ending the year on a high note
- New fund launches rise in Q4
February
- Panic! at the recession: How should investors consider portfolio risk in a late-cycle environment?
- Getting into debt: Falling fundraising by closed-end debt funds isn’t the whole picture
- Shop talk: A conversation with Will Robson and Gillian Mollod
- Understanding global differences: Methods of real estate NAV calculation vary globally and reflect regional differences in accounting standards
- The co-working conundrum: With the rise of the modern flexible-office sector, has co-working gone from hero to villain to antihero?
- Tech impact: Technology industry exposure and implications in major U.S. office metros
- Tomorrow’s view: Continued U.S. economic growth to drive demand for real estate in 2020, but risks are rising
- Visions, Insights & Perspectives: An industry-defining event
- Demographic shifts will affect the global workplace by 2030
- UPS data center market to reach $5b value by 2026
- DivcoWest and CalSTRS buy 49% stake in San Francisco office building
- U.S. economy adds 2.1m jobs in 2019
- CBRE forecasts online returns could total as much as $41.6b in 2019 holiday season
- Logistics real estate and e-commerce create sustainability advantages
- Diversification needs drive investors to private markets and real assets
- Falling fundraising in Q4 2019
January
- 2020 vision: What might real estate investors see in the year ahead?
- Global perspectives: Editors share insights and discuss highlights from 2019’s Editorial Advisory Board meetings
- Smaller class sizes: Should student housing investors be worried about declining undergraduate enrollment?
- Are your investments at risk? Facing climate change threats head on in institutional real estate portfolios
- Institutional Real Estate Global: All around the world
- Increased capital requirements could slow down Fannie, Freddie privatization
- November job growth indicates continuing robust U.S. economy
- Asian real estate funds have higher total expense ratios than European funds
- Smart building tech forecast to grow 10% over five years