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 2019
November
- Putting it together: Dry powder fuels interest in entity-level investing
- Risk tolerance: Investors, managers and consultants take stock of the current real estate environment
- Women drive progress in cities: Real estate investors should follow women to find the most successful markets
- Shop talk: A conversation with Sally Ann Flood
- Rent control redux: Why it continues to be poor public policy
- Investing in rent-controlled apartments
- What do you mean ‘we’? Implications from the WeWork IP-won’t
- Letter to the Editor: Regarding real estate education
- E-commerce penetration correlates with retail property performance
- CalSTRS addresses climate change in investment portfolio
- Colony to sell U.S. logistics assets to Blackstone
- Self-storage investors see supply as hurdle to performance
- Real estate companies shift to focus on tenant experience
- Downward trend continues in Q3 2019
- Checking in: Foreign investors see investment opportunity in U.S. hotel market
October
- Back to school: Graduate degrees enhance and expand skills, open new doors
- Preparing for the future
- The right stuff
- Following the money: Europe has been the biggest beneficiary of an increase in global capital diversification
- The third global pillar: Global core real estate is now an essential part of portfolios
- Making the turn: A tipping point on climate change has arrived, but the pace of the transition from fossil fuels will determine winners and losers
- Fountain of youth: Multigenerational living could rejuvenate the senior housing sector
- Making forecasts: Prioritizing processes and prescriptions in real estate investment forecasting
- Food for thought: Topics for discussion in fall 2019
- Shopping center owners will need creativity to attract tenants, shoppers
- Healthcare real estate investment surges
- Paramount Group invests $900m in San Francisco offices
- Real estate industry makes progress in carbon reduction
- Capital-raising by debt funds in H1 2019
- 2019 IREI Springboard: The sixth annual gathering of the industry’s future leaders
September
- With a twist: Niche property types offer an alternative to traditional core assets
- Lending trends: Limited competition and positive market fundamentals have supported the construction finance business
- An overview of the Islamic finance industry: Shariah-compliant investors can provide capital for investment in hard assets, such as real estate
- Currency risk: How are cross-border real estate investors faring in 2019?
- Shop talk: A conversation with Andreas Calianos
- Forward-looking concerns: The top 10 issues affecting real estate, 2019-2020
- Building confidence: While nonlisted real estate is gaining appeal, new indexes are crucial to improve market transparency
- What is risk? And how does it affect real estate investment?
- Top 10 real estate managers have AUM of $1.2t
- Fed cuts target rate by a quarter point
- U.S. economy adds 164,000 jobs in July
- CFA Institute releases final version of 2020 GIPS
- Foreign investors target U.S. net-lease properties
- Q2 fundraising slows after record-setting Q1
- Quarterly returns up for all property types except retail
July
- En masse: Mass timber is poised to be faster, cheaper and greener than traditional construction materials
- Regulatory framing: Changes to the International Building Code
- Evolution of sharing: Office landlords are launching co-working initiatives to cater to changing tenant desires
- Just a minute, please: The U.K. has postponed Brexit. Now what?
- Driving conditions: What’s fueling the global outlook for real estate in 2019 and beyond?
- Don’t wait too long: The importance of succession planning
- Cycle? What cycle? Finding patterns in the noise
- U.S.-China trade tensions escalate
- Beacon acquires two tech-oriented assets in San Francisco
- Global mega-funds dominate 2019: North America and Europe remain attractive
- Investors increase allocations to real estate
- Investment momentum slows, but leasing demand holds up
- Foreign investors turn toward India’s real estate market
- Co-living sector attracts tenants, investors
June
- Block by block: Single-family rentals offer steady performance and improving operating efficiencies, despite a fragmented investor market
- Leasing to government: Landlords balance high credit, red tape
- Capital stack: Preferred equity and mezzanine debt in project-level co-investment programs
- Breaking through: Communication is key for building LP-GP relationships
- Food for thought: Spring 2019 Editorial Advisory Board meeting of Institutional Real Estate Americas
- Star turn: LP-GP collaboration pushes ESG forward
- Access to a rocket ship: What could go wrong?
- Construction industry trends — increased costs and greater use of technology
- Real estate investors agree on importance of ESG
- Tech unicorns concentrate in Bay Area
- Investors face obsolescence risk in a changing world
- Mega-funds push first-quarter fundraising to new heights
- Institutional real estate returns start 2019 on an upswing
May
- The megastorm era: Why the real estate industry is dragging its heels on pricing weather risk, and what can be done about it
- Mainstreaming financial disclosures
- A moderating trend: Global investors are indicating a mild pullback in 2019 allocations to real estate, amidst weakening sentiment
- Pointing the way: Using behavioral science to generate value for real estate developments, communities and cities
- Sustainability: Can we maintain the current world order?
- Investors place $182b in real estate in 2018
- MetaProp co-founders release book on proptech space
- U.S. adds 196,000 jobs in March, exceeding expectations
- U.S. economic expansion nears 10 years
- U.S. retail completions to remain on par with 2018
- Investors look to identify size of opportunity zone market
- Sustainable warehouses: Investment in environmentally sound industrial facilities
- Midwestern winners: Thriving metros show the region is more than a Rust Belt
- Storm brewing: Co-working operators vs. real estate veterans
April
- Female founders: Women-owned businesses are carving out space in the real estate industry
- On the rise: A new generation of real estate professionals look to technology to shape the future of the industry
- Affordable multifamily housing: An attractive institutional investment class
- Capital controls: Changing trends for institutional and high-net-worth investors have implications for Chinese investment in the United States
- Is debt the new equity? The search for staying power in the market
- Opportunities and outcomes: Women in the real estate investment industry
- NYC top globally for tech, Chinese cities enter rankings
- A new kind of retail experience
- Real estate investors favor secondary markets and alternative assets in 2019
- Data center capacity increases in 2018
- Average fund size continues to grow, while average time on offer falls
March
- Artificial sweetener: Cutting-edge technologies are driving innovation in the real estate industry
- Standing out: Managers look for ways to differentiate themselves and get attention
- Real estate and reflation: How rising deficits and partisan gridlock may work in real estate’s favor
- Rising stars: Current macroeconomic and property trends in Latin America support a positive 2019 outlook
- New name, same game: Real estate implications of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement
- Chicago: A demographically challenged, bifurcated metro
- Value creation: Providing solutions to complex situations
- Domestic and geopolitics: Some of the themes driving investment decision making
- Only connect: Themes from the 2019 VIP conference
- Real estate secondary transactions total $5.3b in 2018
- U.S. economy to continue supporting real estate market
- Investors move toward conservatism late in cycle
- Norwegian SWF reduces target allocation to real estate
- Down but not out: Real estate returns down for quarter, but prices still increased
- Taking a pause
February
- Picking up the pace: Proptech enters an explore-the-potential phase
- Who’s lending? M&A, interest rates and other trends are driving the commercial real estate financing business
- A changing landscape: Dealing with disruption in commercial real estate finance
- Rent or buy? Rental demand holding strong as homeownership rises with a whimper
- REIT footprint expands globally: Growth provides investors with diverse menu of options
- Game changer: How to think about the impact of autonomous vehicles on a real estate investment strategy
- In the middle: A growing opportunity exists for investing in middle-income multifamily
- How solid is your cybersecurity plan? More technology means more avenues for intrusion
- A decade on: Celebrating 10 years of a new way to communicate
- SoftBank scales back WeWork investment plans
- Manhattan landmark goes on the sales block
- Cross-border capital circles the globe
- U.S. adds 2.6m jobs in 2018
- Getting specific on fundraising
January
- Retail closures fuel adaptive reuse: Repurposing of vacant properties accelerates amid shifting retail landscape
- What’s in store for 2019? Plenty of thunderclouds are on the horizon in the new year; here’s how to keep yourself sheltered
- Regional economic capitals and the Big Six: A data-driven approach to analyzing investment markets
- Urban examination: The key factors fueling success in Europe’s most dynamic cities
- Brazil’s recent election: What could it mean for real estate investors?
- Forward looking: Where we’ve been, where we’re going
- YTD office sales volume tops $93b, as of Q3
- Which cities will lead the global economy in 2035?
- Blackstone fund targets $20b in equity
- Investors Diversified Realty launches NCREIF NFI-ODCE Index fund
- Bigger and bigger