Americas With a twist: Niche property types offer an alternative to traditional core assets While the old categories of real estate (office, industrial, multifamily, retail) are still the basic investment plays, sharp investors have been moving into alternatives.
Americas Lending trends: Limited competition and positive market fundamentals have supported the construction finance business A convergence of factors has served to make some investors take a look at investment in construction finance. But financing development comes with its own set of challenges and risks for investment.
Americas An overview of the Islamic finance industry: Shariah-compliant investors can provide capital for investment in hard assets, such as real estate Islamic finance has an enormous influence in our global economy and has been a large contributor to the many financial investments made worldwide.
Americas Currency risk: How are cross-border real estate investors faring in 2019? Currencies are volatile and unpredictable, and this foreign exchange rate risk brings additional uncertainty to international investment returns.
Americas Shop talk: A conversation with Andreas Calianos Andreas Calianos has been in the institutional real estate industry for nearly 30 years and serves as an outsourced CIO.
Americas Forward-looking concerns: The top 10 issues affecting real estate, 2019-2020 Commercial real estate faces a wide sweep of issues that will affect the industry in the years to come, over both the long and short term.
Americas Building confidence: While nonlisted real estate is gaining appeal, new indexes are crucial to improve market transparency Despite being in the later stage of the cycle, investors still seem bullish on real estate, as proven by the record $193.7 billion capital raised for real estate in 2018, according to the ANREV/INREV/NCREIF Capital Raising Survey 2019.
Americas What is risk? And how does it affect real estate investment? Risk. It’s been defined by some as the fact that more things can happen than will happen. It’s also been equated to degrees of uncertainty, although some would argue that uncertainty and risk are not the same thing.
Americas Top 10 real estate managers have AUM of $1.2t Based on 2018 data, the top 100 firms now account for AUM of nearly $3.48 trillion, according to Global Investment Managers 2019, the annual survey and report produced by Property Funds Research and Institutional Real Estate, Inc.
Americas Fed cuts target rate by a quarter point The Federal Open Market Committee decided to lower the target federal funds rate by 25 basis points to a range of 2.0–2.25 percent following its meeting July 30–31.
Americas U.S. economy adds 164,000 jobs in July Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 164,000 in July, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Americas CFA Institute releases final version of 2020 GIPS The CFA Institute has released the latest iteration of its Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS) — standardized best practices for investment performance reporting and presentation by asset managers.
Americas Foreign investors target U.S. net-lease properties International buyers are increasing their investment activity in U.S. net-lease properties, especially in larger gateway markets.
Americas Q2 fundraising slows after record-setting Q1 A total of 23 funds reported final closings during the April–June period, raising an aggregate of $19.4 billion.
Americas Quarterly returns up for all property types except retail The return for institutional investors as measured by the NCREIF Property Index (NPI) was 1.51 percent in the second quarter, down from 1.80 percent the previous quarter.
