Videos & Podcasts

What is the danger of underestimating the distinction between listed and nonlisted real estate? What is the “disconnect” between the two strategies? When is listed versus non-listed real estate appropriate in a portfolio? Mike Bessell, managing director and European investment strategist at Invesco Real Estate, joins the program to elaborate on the topic. (07/2021)

What property type most defines cities such as New York, Miami and Dallas? What are those cities biggest concerns around hospitality and housing? In what ways will the post-pandemic environment change? What is the biggest impact that will be made by proptech? And what niche real estate category is looking strongest in those markets? Those and other questions are answered by Brian Bader, Kristi Gibson and Ian Shapiro, executives in the real estate practice at BDO. (07/2021)

Technology has dramatically changed and broadened the auction business, and headlines have been filled with titanic asset sales in everything from digital art and vintage wine to classic cars and real estate portfolios. To explain the current environment, we are joined by Chad Roffers, co-founder and chairman of Concierge Auctions. Though he specializes in real estate auctions, Roffers addresses the full gamut of assets going to auction, as well as what auctions will look like with the advent of forthcoming…

A fascinating new report from K.C. Conway, chief economist at the CCIM Institute, provides a host of insights about last-mile logistics, how they are being executed to serve both consumers and businesses, the risks and rewards for investors, and how even hotels and restaurants are participating in this monumental shift. Conway joins the program to discuss his report. (07/2021)

What are the challenges investors face in constructing real-asset portfolios in the current environment with depressed fixed income yields and the threat of sustained inflation? What real asset classes are currently advisable? How should they be integrated into portfolios? Our guest, Jared Gross, managing director and head of institutional portfolio strategy at J.P. Morgan, offers his insights. (07/2021)

Join the program for a review of a trio of feature stories appearing in the July/August edition of Institutional Real Estate Americas. The magazine's senior editor, Loretta Clodfelter, offers her insights. (06/2021)

Zachary Gauge, head of real estate research & strategy Europe ex DACH at UBS, gives an update on the U.K. property market and discusses what effect could the end of the moratorium on evictions and winding-up petitions have on the real estate market in the U.K., who wins out of urban vs out-of-town retail properties in the U.K. in the long-term and why, the future of the U.K. office market and more. (06/2021)

The OECF universe continues to expand as institutional investors seek greater global diversification, enhanced liquidity and overall flexibility in managing their real estate allocations. In the Alliance OECF Considerations, Heather Border, co-founder and managing partner at Alliance Global Advisors, and Jennifer Stevens, co-founder and managing partner at Alliance Global Advisors, outline some important considerations for investment managers to evaluate before launching an OECF. (06/2021)

What is the difference between diversity, equity and inclusion, the three components of DEI? Why has diversity been so slow in coming to U.S. workplaces? What are the chief impediments to DEI and in what ways has the definition of diversity expanded? And what are some of today’s best practices in achieving DEI? TJ Edwards and Jason Golub, executives with Walker & Dunlop, join the program to discuss the continuing effort to achieve more inclusive working environments. (06/2021)

Geoffrey Dohrmann, founder and CEO of Institutional Real Estate, Inc., remembers Larry Hull, his long-time friend, mentor and father figure. Other subjects commented on: The restart of live business events, inflation and the surge of single-family rentals. (06/2021)

Investors are engaged in a flight to safety, but what defines a defensive or safe real estate class these days? What are the most popular defensive sectors at present? And what problems arise from a parade of investors chasing the same types of assets? Marek Handzel, editor of Institutional Real Estate Europe, reports on the topic. (06/2021)

Special purpose acquisition companies, more commonly referred to as SPACs, have stormed Wall Street to great fanfare and criticism. Where did SPACs come from? What’s the difference between the good ones and bad? Where are they going? Peter Lewis, chairman and founder of Wharton Equity, offers his assessment, as well as what he considers the hottest property type in real estate. (06/2021)

What is the state of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in the institutional real estate industry? What are the trends, challenges and solutions from investors and investment managers? Discover practical and actionable insights on this important topic. This webinar is be broken into two parts, each featuring a group of expert speakers. (06/2021)

Rick Murdock attended an event in Omaha, Neb., and was amazed by the types of automated construction he was seeing that was available in Europe but still unused in the United States. He subsequently founded a company named Autovol and built a 400,000-square-foot automated construction plant in Idaho, where he focuses on affordable housing projects. Murdock comes on the program to tell his story and highlight the future of robotics in construction. (06/2021)

Joanna Frank, president and CEO of the Center for Active Design, discusses some of the key takeaways from a study coordinated by the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative and the Center for Active Design and BentallGreenOak. The study covers what is driving demand for healthy buildings, what this means for investors and more. To read the full report, click here.

Inflation is rising in the United States, but how big a threat does it pose? Are we heading into a full-blown inflationary cycle, or are we experiencing a blip? If the former is the case, what must investors do to protect portfolios against disruption? If the latter, how is a serious bout of inflation going to be held in check? We turn to a pair of keen observers: Ethan Penner, managing partner and co-founder of Mosaic Real Estate Investors, and…

Sally French Tyler, executive vice president of First American Title Insurance Co. and National Commercial Services Division president speaks to industry trends and the changing face of commercial real estate. (06/2021)

Did you know that, on average, the world’s 20 largest ESG funds hold investments in 17 fossil-fuel producers, and two own stakes in Saudi Aramco, the world’s biggest oil producer? Or that one fund holds a stake in a Chinese coal-mining company? It’s called “greenwashing” — the conveying of false or misleading information suggesting a company’s products and activities are environmentally sound. And the practice is rampant. Breana Wheeler, the U.S. director of operations for BREEAM (the Building Research Establishment),…

Geoffrey Dohrmann, president and CEO of Institutional Real Estate, Inc., and Garrett Zdolshek, portfolio manager of Investors Diversified Realty, discuss current events of the NFI-ODCE Index. Watch an informative discussion on Index performance, outlook, recent trends and significant events. (06/2021)

What do real estate investors have to be optimistic about in China? What concerns about the housing market linger? Is there still a potentially ruinous debt problem? How does the multifamily housing market differ in China vis-à-vis the United States? And, in the final analysis, is the China residential market now a “buy,” “sell” or “hold”? We get the scoop from Robert Ciemniak, the Hong Kong-based founder and CEO of Real Estate Foresight. (06/2021)