The outsourcing of accounting or certain areas of asset management or portfolio management that were previously handled internally has recently picked up steam in the real estate world.
Institutional Real Estate Americas recently asked a collection of industry experts to share their forecasts and expectations for U.S. real estate in the current environment.
In this environment, it is no wonder that many real estate investment managers have shifted their focus so publicly to decarbonization.
For investors in private markets, filtering through the noise and retaining a longer-term perspective can be difficult, but it is essential for sound decision making.
Permanent loans on U.S. multifamily properties underwritten to strict lending criteria and held to maturity meet institutional investors’ objectives — easy-to-understand investments yielding predictable cash flows with limited downside and low correlation with other asset classes.
Federal Reserve actions, their impact on the trajectory and shape of the term structure of interest rates, and the consequential impact on financial markets and the economy are the key questions in first quarter 2023.
The 2023 Visions, Insights & Perspectives (VIP) Americas conference, held in late January in Southern California, had real estate–focused panels and discussions under the theme of “Adapt and Overcome.”
REITs may have declined by about 25 percent in 2022, but many industry experts believe they are well positioned to perform strongly in 2023.
Overlaying the European Union’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) framework to real estate managers’ and investors’ portfolios is challenging, according to a new report on environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting from INREV.
The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) on Feb. 1 raised the target federal funds rate for the eighth time in less than a year, and analysts are predicting one or two more tempered increases before the rate reaches its peak.
Employment growth in January was stronger than forecast, with the U.S. economy adding 517,000 jobs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the unemployment rate ticking down to 3.4 percent.
Private real estate fundraising volume was $47.6 billion in fourth quarter 2022, according to Institutional Real Estate, Inc.’s IREI.Q database, with the closing of Brookfield’s $17 billion Brookfield Strategic Real Estate Partners IV.
The NCREIF Property Index (NPI) quarterly total return was –3.50 percent for the fourth quarter, which is the first negative return since the COVID-19 pandemic.