Videos & Podcasts

The ‘silver tsunami’ is finally hitting shore for senior housing investors

David Selznick, a partner and CIO at KA Real Estate, joins the program to discuss how the supply/demand ratio in the senior housing sector is working in favor of investors, as well as current occupancy rates, how senior living centers are moving from emphasis on care to an emphasis on lifestyle, the integration of resort-style amenities and new technologies, and the overall outlook for senior housing investors. (06/2023)

Commerz Real's Yves-Maurice Radwan on agricultural solar

Yves-Maurice Radwan, head of green deal infrastructure at Commerz Real, discusses how relevant traditional buy-and-hold is for renewables investors in today’s market environment, the potential pitfalls of agrisolar and what added value growing renewables niches such as agrisolar or floating offshore wind can offer to investors. (05/2023)

Major property investors taking money off the top

Victoria Stulgis, SVP of client operations at Black Bear Energy, joins the program to discuss her organization’s newly launched Solar Leaderboard Index, and the big organizations currently sitting atop movement toward rooftop solar to reduce costs or boost revenue. Think in terms of Prologis, Brookfield, AvalonBay and Blackstone. Stulgis explains. (05/2023)

An update on the progress of U.S. high-speed rail

Andy Kunz, founder and president of the US High Speed Rail Association, discusses the organization’s upcoming High Speed Rail 2023 conference (May 16-17) in Washington, D.C., as well as overall progress of U.S. high-speed rail, private investment in the projects, and the real estate opportunities planned for the systems’ transportation stations and hubs. (05/2023)

Banking industry shifting from ‘brown collateral’ to ‘green collateral’

Steve Schleider, New York Tri-State leader of the valuation and risk advisory platform at JLL, comes to the program to discuss how banks are taking a more cautious approach when evaluating commercial real estate, and effectively pushing them toward meeting energy threshold mandates for greenhouse gas emissions and decarbonization. (05/2023)

The prognosis for student housing is good — and might be getting better

Christopher Merrill, co-founder and CEO of Harrison Street, a real assets investment management firm, speaks with zeal about student housing, whose fundamentals he says have never been better.  What’s more, the demographic outlook for the space is also promising. He elaborates during this episode. (04/2023)

Swinerton takes bullish stance on office market

Andrew Pearl, a vice president/division manager at Swinerton, joins the program to discuss the company’s affirmative outlook for the office market. Indeed, the 135-year-old construction and construction services company opened its first New York office in June 2021, dead in the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic, when office workers either fled the city or started working from home. Pearl explains the company’s optimism about office. (04/2023)    

CityView's Sean Burton on why investors are looking West

Sean Burton, chairman and CEO at CityView, discusses what trends are driving multifamily investment, how the West Coast compares to other regions for multifamily investment, what the impact of rising interest rates have been on multifamily investments and more. (04/2023)

BentallGreenOak's Sonny Kalsi on the expectations for commercial real estate in 2023

Sonny Kalsi, co-CEO at BentallGreenOak, the discusses expectations for commercial real estate in 2023 and how the outlook is different from 2022 and what emerging trends in commercial real estate investors should be aware of in the coming year. (04/2023) This video was recording at IREI's 2023 VIP Americas conference in January 2023.

The financial impact of customer experience

Bradly Sax, director of customer strategy and experience at the integrated real estate firm Lendlease, joins the program to discuss the imperative of focusing on customer experience. How much of the customer experience depends on human versus automated technologies, or passive versus outbound data collection? How big a role is AI playing? What are the keys to properly assessing the experience customers are having? And what about the financial impact of those efforts? (04/2023)