The desire to generate higher yields in recent years has spurred more capital flows into riskier value-add and opportunistic strategies. The ongoing debate is whether those risks are worth the returns they’re generating. Adding fodder to this discussion is a 2019 research study in the Journal of Portfolio Management that analyzed the performance of private […]
Investors committed more capital to real estate in 2021 than they had initially expected, and U.S. investors expect to allocate even more to the asset class in 2022. That is among the key findings of the 26th annual investor survey — 2022 Institutional Investors Real Estate Trends — published by Institutional Real Estate, Inc., based […]
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in the modern era are radically changing the way investors and investment management companies make investment decisions. In addition, the use of these technologies is significantly changing how real estate operating companies use information for prospecting and lead generation, intelligent underwriting, and other data tools. This is likely […]
“People are usually afraid of change because they fear the unknown. But the single greatest constant of history is that everything changes.” The meaning of this quote, from historian and author Yuval Noah Harari, will not be lost on most people in real estate. In our industry, the past decade has been transformational, to say […]
At the heart of every successful real estate sector lies the people who drive the value of each property. Economic, regulatory and market factors may ebb and flow, but it is the tide of demographic shifts that underpins the long-term prospects of real estate investing. It is instructive to examine the behaviors of millennials and […]
The Editorial Advisory Board of Institutional Real Estate Americas gathered for its spring 2022 board meeting near Charleston, S.C., in the middle of April. Prior to the meeting, we asked attendees to share the questions they have for other investors, the concerns they are dealing with at their organization, and the hidden landmines that keep […]
Real estate investors must begin to pay more attention to the threats that climate migration could have on their portfolios. The warning comes from Mary Ludgin, Heitman’s head of global research, who is a key collaborator of a report jointly published by Heitman and the Urban Land Institute earlier this year called Climate Migration and […]
Commercial real estate lenders continue to compete for loans secured by multifamily, industrial and life sciences assets, as well as data centers, says Michael Hurley, managing partner and co-chair of the CMBS practice at Cassin & Cassin LLP. Hurley also notes it appears lenders are starting to once again get comfortable with the hospitality sector, […]
The apartment sector is likely to be well positioned in the year ahead, though rising inflation may create some challenges for residents. “It’s a mixed bag,” says Edward Ring, founder and CEO of New Standard Equities, regarding expectations for the multifamily sector in the year ahead. “As the proverbial ‘wallet share’ rises in markets where […]