Videos & Podcasts

The 2018 National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care Fall Conference was held Oct. 17 in Chicago with more than 3,000 people in attendance. A packed agenda included discussions about tech innovations, present and future investing, supply and demand, changing investor capital flows, the sector's history of investor returns, and how properties are changing to accommodate the predilections and attitudes of aging baby boomers. Beth Mace, the organization's chief economist and director of outreach, joins us with details. (10/2018)

More than 44,500 people and over 2,000 companies, cities and regions exhibited at this year's Expo Real, the annual international trade fair for property and investment hosted in Munich, Germany. On the ground for us at the expo was Marek Handzel, editor of Institutional Real Estate Europe. He joins the podcast to offer his observations. (10/2018)

Why have REITs been trading at discounts, and what does it mean for private real estate? Loretta Clodfelter, editor of Institutional Real Estate Americas, discusses the story in the October 2018 edition of the magazine that tackles that question. (10/2018)

Shifting gears in European real estate is a webinar from 2018 that discussed trends in European real estate leading up to IREI's 2019 VIP conference. (10/2018)

Where is the money flowing — global capital flows is a webinar from 2018 that discussed trends in European real estate leading up to IREI's 2019 VIP conference. (10/2018)

On the strength of 25 years of uninterrupted economic growth — and another 10 to 15 more years of the same — the Poland retail sector has grown year-over-year by 7 percent annually, and brick-and-mortar retail sales are forecast to grow by 30 percent in the years to come, and e-commerce sales are expected to triple. Marek Handzel, editor of Institutional Real Estate Europe, expands on the country’s robust economic trends. (09/2018)

Geoffrey Dohrmann, founder and CEO of Institutional Real Estate Inc., discusses the just-completed 2018 Fall Editorial Advisory Board Meeting for IRE Americas, as well as upcoming events, and a new consulting venture the company has launched for players — and would-be players — in the private wealth advisory market. (09/2018)

Construction costs are on the rise, the CMBS market has rebounded and gone through some fundamental changes, and The Counselors of Real Estate have published their annual list of the top 10 issues likely to affect real estate during this year and 2019. Loretta Clodfelter, editor of Institutional Real Estate Americas, walks us through these stories, appearing in the September 2018 edition of the magazine. (09/2018)

Millions of Americans now depend on DC plans for a secure retirement.  The Defined Contribution Real Estate Council (DCREC) was launched with the goal of improving retirement plans through the use of direct commercial real estate and real estate securities in DC plans. Our guest is one of the organization’s co-presidents, Allan Swaringen, who is also CEO of Jones Lang LaSalle Income Property Trust. He joins us to offer an update on DCREC’s progress. (08/2018)

Italy has traditionally been viewed as a domestic investor market, but this has been changing. Why is Italy now attracting attention from cross-border investors? Which real estate sectors and geographic areas are garnering the most interest? What about risks associated with Italy’s threats to leave the European Union? We discuss those topics and other with Marek Handzel, editor of Institutional Real Estate Europe. (08/2018)