Videos & Podcasts

The Urban Land Institute is about to unveil its 2014 Emerging Trends in Real Estate report, and in this podcast Stephen Blank — a senior resident fellow at the organization, and one of the researchers and writers of the report — discusses the annual report's history, how it is produced, the purpose of the report, its intended audience, and also gives listeners a high-level overview of what the report anticipates for the real estate industry during 2014.    (11/2013)

Geoffrey Dohrmann, founder and CEO of Institutional Real Estate, Inc., shares some of this month's highlights, including a milestone reached by the company's web-based Institutional Real Estate Newsline story feed, insights from the Institutional Investing in Infrastructure board meeting and conference, as well as an overview of his meetings with the brain trusts of the giant CalPERS and CalSTRS pension funds. (10/2013)

Amy Wells, a partner at the law firm Cox, Castle & Nicholson, and a regular contributor on legal matters to The Institutional Real Estate Letter, discusses the decision by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to relax its rules regarding advertising and marketing by investment firms seeking to raise money for their investment funds.      (10/2013)

Contributing reporter Anna Robaton discusses the news feature story she wrote about the swell of Asian investment dollars that are making their way across the Pacific and finding a home in the Americas. (10/2013)

Geoffrey Dohrmann, founder and CEO of Institutional Real Estate, Inc., shares insights from the company's Editorial Advisory Board meetings in Laguna Beach, Bangkok and Rome. Among the topics are investor and manager unease about interest rates, cap rates and tapering of the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing program.  (09/2013)

Peter Steil, CEO of the National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries (better known as NCREIF), discusses the article his organization contributed to the September 2013 edition of The Institutional Real Estate Letter – Americas that outlines plans for creating a common data submission process within the commercial real estate investment industry. (9/2013)

Ron Zeff, founder and chief executive of Carmel Partners, a national real estate investment manager specializing in acquisition, development, renovation and management of multifamily projects, discusses the multifamily housing sector — its current status, its outlook, the demographic trends that bode well for its future, as well as the forces that might cloud its fortunes.  (08/2013)

Luis Belmonte, a partner at Seven Hills Properties, a real estate development company, recently authored the book Get Rich Slowly: Invest in Real Estate. During this interview, Belmonte elaborates on a host of real estate-related subjects, including why he believes industrial is the property type of the future. (08/2013)

Geoffrey Dohrmann, founder and CEO of Institutional Real Estate, Inc., breaks down the current institutional investing market in this monthly podcast. This month he has more to say about the consolidation of the largest investment management firms, and he also reports on the new video version of the Market Navigator series, the company's upcoming Editorial Advisory Board meetings in Laguna Beach, Bangkok and Rome, and continuing life and times of Larry Hull, a long-time force in the institutional investing field…

Ethan Penner, managing partner of Monday Capital Partners, started his long and distinguished career in the savings and loans industry and joined the legendary Drexel Burnham Lambert in 1986, where he established the firm’s non-agency and adjustable-rate mortgage units and oversaw a $1 billion capital commitment business. He is also founder of Capital America, a subsidiary of Nomura Securities, and CBRE Capital Partners, a real estate debt investment management platform with investor commitments in excess of $500 million. In this…

Have you ever heard workplace comments such as, “Jim is a great marketer, BUT he can’t close deals,” or “Rachel works hard, BUT she can’t prioritize”? Of course you have. The workplace is rife with peer assessments that have the dreaded “but” word sitting in the middle of the sentence like a concrete barrier impeding our career advancement. In his new book, “Kiss Your BUT Good-Bye: How to Get Beyond the One Word That Stands Between You and Success,” Joe…

Dan Mahoney, an executive with LaSalle Investment Management, talks about the "walkability" article he co-authored with three LaSalle colleagues in the July edition of the Institutional Real Estate Letter — Americas. Mahoney explains how mixed-use developments designed with high walkability ratings are financially outperforming rival developments.  (07/2013)

Geoffrey Dohrmann, founder and CEO of Institutional Real Estate, Inc. breaks down the current institutional investing market in this monthly podcast. This month he discusses the SEC relaxing its rules regarding advertising by financial companies, the consolidation of institutional investment dollars in the hands of fewer and larger investment managers, and the reorganization of the executive suite at CalPERS.  (07/2013)

An interview with Sheila Hopkins, managing director of Institutional Real Estate, Inc.'s European operations. Hopkins discusses Europe's unceasing appetite for core investing, even as prices surpass pre-2008 levels and rents struggle to keep up with asset inflation, causing returns to shrink. Meanwhile, the continent's institutional investors have begun showing interest in certain alternative investment opportunities, but have been reticent to commit. (07/2013)

Dan Schned, a senior planner at the Regional Plan Association, discusses the 11 U.S. mega-regions identified in his organization’s America 2050 report, including what mega-regions are and why they are important. (07/2013)

Is Japan truly on the recovery track? Should investors be worried about China’s leadership transition? What kinds of yields can be expected from real estate investments in the region? Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management executives Leslie Chua and Koichiro Obu discuss the current climate for investing in Asia.  (06/2013)

Geoffrey Dohrmann, founder and CEO of Institutional Real Estate, Inc. breaks down the current institutional investing market in this monthly podcast. This month he talks about The Fed's announcement that it plans to start winding down its quantitative easing program and the impact that decision has had on bond and stock markets. He also discusses China's decision to tighten credit, the improved U.S. housing market, single-family homes' potential for becoming an institutional asset class, and the current state of the…

Sameer Jain, chief economist and managing director at American Realty Capital, discusses the advantages of non-traded REITs as compared with publicly traded REITs. During this interview he discusses the size and historic returns of the non-traded REIT industry, as well as its regulatory environment, which types of investors they are best suited to, and what investors get in return for the illiquid nature of this particular real estate investment vehicle. Sameer Jain can be contacted at sjain@arlcap.com or 646-861-7726.  (06/2013)

Carl Gomez, senior vice president and chief economist at Bentall Kennedy, is responsible for Canadian real estate and capital markets research. He has more than 12 years of experience in macroeconomic forecasting and real estate market analysis. In this podcast Gomez talks about the softening Canadian economy and the nation's real estate market.  (06/2013)

Tom Shapiro, founder and president of GTIS Partners, a firm that has invested $1.25 billion in Brazil, discusses his financial interests in Latin America's largest economy, other markets in the region that are attracting his interest, and the keys to successful real estate investing south of the U.S. border. (06/2013)