Videos & Podcasts

Despina Katsikakis, international partner, head of occupier business performance at Cushman & Wakefield, discusses how productivity, effectiveness and engaging workplaces impact employees. (11/2017)

What constitutes or qualifies as corporate housing? What purpose does it serve? What types of investors are attracted to corporate housing investment opportunities, and how do those deals come together? And how has corporate housing performed historically in terms of occupancy, rental rate trends and yield? To discuss, Terry Strongin, a managing member of Equity 24, LLC, joins us. (10/2017)

Hotels are doing well the world over, and they are an increasingly popular destination for institutional investors who are attracted to their continuing growth, constrained supply and stable income from a mix of business and leisure activity. It also helps that hotels are generally located in and around the same major cities investors already favor. So writes Institutional Real Estate Europe editor Richard Fleming, who joins us to talk about investors’ new affection for the hotel sector. (10/2017)

What are the most liquid real estate markets in the world? How is liquidity most effectively measured? And what is the utility of having an index that ranks real estate markets by the liquidity? Andrew Ballantyne, head of research in Australia for Jones Lang LaSalle, is our guest. (10/2017)

What are the critical differences between the hotel markets in coastal cities vis-à-vis Midwestern cities? Do hotels in the Midwest typically serve a predominantly leisure or business audience? And how does an investor identify a good hotel property in a nation’s heartland? Our guest — Corey Maple, chairman of the Lodging Opportunity Fund, which creates investment funds that buy and sell Midwestern hotels — joins us to elaborate. (10/2017)

Why are people who understand blockchain so excited about its prospects? What are its potential applications for the financial services business? Jaron Lukasiewicz — cofounder and CEO of WRKFLOW, a startup that offers broker/dealers, insurance companies and other enterprises workflow software based on blockchain technology to help automate and secure their business processes — explains how blockchain works and how it can be applied to the investment industry’s most vexing regulatory requirements. (10/2017)

Data centers continue booming with no end in sight, as the largest cloud computing providers spend billions on expansion and data center REITs rack up impressive returns. Meanwhile, there are warnings about the folly of overemphasizing real estate benchmarks, and optimism in Los Angeles as it wins its bid to host another Olympic Games. It's all in the October 2017 edition of Institutional Real Estate Americas. The magazine’s editor, Loretta Clodfelter, joins us to discuss. (10/2017)

Foreign immigration supports economic growth and real estate investment success, according to one of the lead stories in the September 2017 edition of Institutional Real Estate Americas. The magazine's editor and story's author, Loretta Clodfelter, elaborates. (09/2017)

Geoffrey Dohrmann and IREI celebrate their 30th anniversary with the publication of an anniversary magazine, a retrospective covering three decades in the evolution of the institutional real estate industry and U.S. business generally. The founder and CEO discusses the journey. (09/2017)

Richard Fleming, editor of Institutional Real Estate Europe, updates us on Brexit, the German federal election, Russia and the future of the continent. (09/2017)

Andrea Waitrovich, head of web content and editor of Institutional Real Estate Newsline, discusses the company's revamped website and its daily news feeds. (09/2017)

With a trillion dollars of infrastructure needs pending in India, private investors have an opportunity to get involved with a country committed to rapidly modernizing its economy and challenging China for economic supremacy in Asia. Rahul Mody, managing director and head of infrastructure at Ambit Corporate Finance, joins us from Mumbai to discuss. (09/2017)

Lawrence Souza, senior investment economist/advisor at Pillar6 Advisors, discusses the political economy and lack of policy making, interest rates, unemployment rates, when the next recession will hit and more. (08/2017)

Fred Pierce, president & CEO at Pierce Education Properties, discusses which markets/cities have the best prospects for student housing investment, what the outlook for the student housing sector looks like over the next couple years, how student housing fundamentals look and much more. (08/2017)

Geoffrey Dohrmann, founder and CEO of Institutional Real Estate, Inc., discusses the hiring of a new managing director of Institutional Investing in Infrastructure magazine, as well as some updates about the Institute for Real Estate Operating Companies (iREOC), the invitation-only club whose members (investors, managers and real estate operating companies) are seeking to form operating partnerships. (08/2017)

Did you know that U.S. water consumption peaked in 1971 and has been declining for decades? Or that water purity used to be measured in parts-per-million and is now measured in parts-per-trillion? Don’t let the unsavory scent or discoloration fool you, our water quality is better than ever. So says, Chris Franklin, CEO of water utility Aqua America. He joins us to discuss that state of water quality and its future. (09/2017)

The escalation and application of computing power to real estate portfolios and their performance is promising a supercharged new era better decision making and high-speed transactions. Think in terms of daily — or even hourly — updates on net asset value of private equity real estate properties and portfolios. Think also in terms of institutional-grade real estate accessible to high-net-worth individuals, and even 401(k) plans. We get up to speed on things with Bob Courteau, CEO of Altus Group. (07/2017)

Globalization’s ship has sailed and the party is over. Emerging in its place is a new tri-polar economic order composed of major trading blocks in the Americas, Asia and Europe. So says Jay Pelosky of Pelosky Global Strategies. He joins us to discuss why globalization is waning, regionalism waxing, and what the consequences will be. (07/2017)

The so-called Trump Bump has done wonder for publicly traded stocks. For real estate securities, though, the environment has been more challenging. Prior to the election, REITs experienced a major headwind in the form of rising interest-rate expectations. That headwind has lost its velocity, and REITs might currently be acting as the proverbial canary in the coalmine. Loretta Clodfelter, editor of Institutional Real Estate Americas, discusses her reporting’s findings on the matter. (07/2017)

Tim Bellman, head of global research at Invesco Real Estate, joins us to discuss the "upswing with uncertainty," synchronized growth among nations, and the auspicious 30th anniversary of a landmark album from Ireland's greatest rock band. (07/2017)