Videos & Podcasts

Lavishly funded AI companies are boosting NYC office market

Venture capital investment in New York City is increasingly concentrated in fewer, larger and more mature artificial intelligence companies, a shift that is reshaping Manhattan’s office market. To discuss this situation, Ben Bass, vice chairman in JLL’s New York brokerage division, joins the program to explain the AI forces at play and how it benefits office investors. (02/2026)

Disaster preparedness for CRE portfolios: 90 minutes to safeguard millions of dollars

Claudine Ripert is COO at Critical Control, a remediation and disaster recovery firm that helps commercial real estate investors, owners and operators secure their portfolios from natural and internal disasters, as well as helping those organizations hit by such mishaps with disaster recovery from situations involving flooding, fire, mold and a number of other common problems that can inflict millions in recovery costs. She also discusses the elements of a disaster preparedness program to prevent or mitigate building calamities. (02/2026)

Real estate veteran on Trump’s executive order banning Wall Street from buying single-family homes

Peter Zabierek, senior portfolio manager at Easterly Ranger, oversees U.S. and global real estate strategies and has been closely tracking President Trump’s executive order aimed at restricting institutional investors from purchasing single-family homes. He believes the policy could worsen the housing shortage and affordability challenges. In this conversation, Zabierek shares his perspective on the executive order and the broader housing and affordability landscape. (02/2026)

Prediction markets — a scandal hiding in plain sight

Mark Goldberg, founder of Alternative Investments Market Intelligence, says a prediction market is nothing more or less than a wager on Monday Night Football. Whether the subject is an election, an economic report or a celebrity outcome, the structure is identical: two parties take opposite sides of a binary event. One wins. One loses. Nothing is created in the process. Yet these products are now being integrated into the same interfaces where Americans hold their retirement savings. (02/2026)

Author Spotlight: Three books targeting retirement principles and advice

Jamie Hopkins, CEO of Bryn Mawr Trust Advisors, is also the author of three books: Rewirement: Rewiring the Way You Think about Retirement; Find Your Freedom: Financial Planning for a Life on Purpose; and, most recently, Your Retirement Sketchbook: 125 Retirement Planning Lessons from Financial Experts. The author walks us through the essentials of each of his books. (01/2026)

Self-storage moves from fast growth to mature industry

Ryan Gibson, co-founder and CIO of Spartan Investment Group, a real estate investment firm specializing in the self-storage industry, joins the program to discuss the industry’s evolution and outlook, how investors can successfully enter the space, and the Five D’s that have traditionally driven demand for space on self-storage properties. (01/2026)

House Views featuring Hodes Weill's Doug Weill

In a new IREI video series titled "House Views," featuring principals of some of the leading global and regional placement agents to learn their views on the markets and sometimes, specific aspects of the markets, Geoffrey Dohrmann interviews Doug Weill, founder and co-managing partner at Hodes Weill & Associates, discussing the 2025 market performance, capital flow activity, if transaction volume is up and more. (01/2026)

House Views featuring Rob Kohn

In a new IREI video series titled "House Views," featuring principals of some of the leading global and regional placement agents to learn their views on the markets and sometimes, specific aspects of the markets, Geoffrey Dohrmann interviews Rob Kohn, principal at Park Madison Partners, discussing the topics of the current investor sentiment towards real estate and infrastructure strategies globally, what's resonating with investors today, what niche strategies are resonating with investors, investor appetite that is said to shift over…

Real Assets Adviser Hot Minute with Procyon’s Phil Fiore

Real Assets Adviser's "Hot Minute" segment takes a minute or so to introduce members of the RAA community to the community at large, all via a "semi-rapid fire" question-and-answer format. This latest "Hot Minute" features Phil Fiore, C0-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Procyon. (1/2026)

Editors’ Roundtable: Davos, VIP Conference and U.S. housing

IREI editors convene to discuss issues of the day, and you’re invited to listen in. Joining the discussion is Loretta Clodfelter, the organization’s editorial director; Mike Consol, editor of Real Assets Adviser; Andrea Zander, editor of Institutional Real Estate Americas; and Marek Handzel, editor of Institutional Real Estate Europe. (01/2026)

Steers Center for Global Real Assets ramps up program for future professionals

Matthew Cypher, director of Georgetown University’s Steers Center for Global Real Assets, discusses the 10-month master’s program combining real estate, infrastructure, global finance and sustainability designed to prepare young professionals to lead a rapidly evolving investment market. What’s more, executive chairman and program founder Bob Steers, co-founder of Cohen & Steers, recently donated $10 million to fund full-tuition scholarships. (01/2026)

Webinar: Q4/2025: FTSE Nareit U.S. Real Estate Indexes In Review & What’s Next

Institutional Real Estate, Inc. and Nareit present a quarterly update offering expert analysis of the FTSE Nareit U.S. Real Estate Index Series. During this one-hour webinar, John Worth, executive vice president of research & investor outreach at Nareit, and Ji Zhang, SVP, portfolio manager, global real estate at Cohen & Steers, will discuss the 2025 Q4 performance and upcoming trends to help you benchmark and analyze exposure. (01/2026)

Real Assets Adviser Hot Minute with Apollon Wealth Management’s Eric Sterner

Real Assets Adviser's "Hot Minute" segment takes a minute or so to introduce members of the RAA community to the community at large, all via a "semi-rapid fire" question-and-answer format. This latest "Hot Minute" features Eric Sterner, Chief Investment Officer at Apollon Wealth Management. (1/2026)

Author Spotlight: Media personality Barry Ritholtz on how not to invest

Barry Ritholtz, co-founder, chairman and CIO of Ritholtz Wealth Management, is out with a new book titled “How Not to Invest: The Ideas, Numbers, and Behavior that Destroy Wealth—and How to Avoid Them,” which he discusses along with his earlier book “Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy.” Ritholtz is also creator of The Big Picture blog, and creator and host of the Bloomberg podcast Masters in Business. (01/2026)

The labor problems dogging the U.S. construction business

The U.S. construction workforce is aging, and young people do not appear attracted to the profession. Vinny Silva, founder and president of VS Construction, a residential construction firm, discusses the parameters of the situation and its possible solutions. (12/2025)