Videos & Podcasts

Zillow reports that millennials — those ages 18-34 — now account for 42 percent of today’s home buyers, which is more than other generations. Why is the housing market suddenly seeing an influx of millennial buyers? How do they differ from generations of previous homebuyers? Gregg Gerken, an executive with TD Bank, joins us to discuss this trends statistical and anecdotal features. (11/2017)

What is the biggest weakness in the current approach by sponsors to product development? What are the ramifications of those weaknesses? How will new regulations affect product development? With institutional players such as Blackstone, Brookfield and TH Real Estate moving into the private wealth space, how will they change product development for individual investors and family offices? Joining us to discuss those issues is Steve Kantor, CEO of S2K Financial, a New York City-based alternative investment firm. (11/2017)

Geoffrey Dohrmann, founder and CEO of Institutional Real Estate, Inc., has returned from a whirlwind event tour and he offers an overview of the goings-on at Springboard (San Diego), PREA (Chicago), ADISA (Las Vegas), ANREV (Singapore), a board of trustees meeting for the Bailard REIT (San Francisco), the editorial advisory board meeting for the company’s Asia-Pacific magazine (Kyoto, Japan), as well as the Institute for Real Estate Operating Companies first inaugural board meeting (Chicago). Still to come after the Thanksgiving…

What are the various roles debt is playing in the current real estate market? How does an investor use debt to increase real estate values and produce income? What are the keys to successfully flipping a real estate asset? And are debt investing opportunities good during booms and busts? Andres Sandate, managing director of Cygnus Capital Real Estate Advisors, joins the program to discuss. (11/2017)

People, especially millennials, wanted to live and work in downtowns, and the real estate industry responded. But the pendulum appears poised to swing back in the suburbs direction. Loretta Clodfelter, the story’s author and editor of Institutional Real Estate Americas, joins us to discuss that trend, as well as the latest on multifamily housing and the magazine’s recent Editorial Advisory Board meeting in Cape Code. (11/2017)

KBS Realty Advisors, one of the industry’s largest owners of office space, has debuted an online real estate platform named KBSDirect.com for accredited investors and advisers to directly invest in the KBS Growth & Income REIT, a portfolio of institutional-grade commercial real estate properties — the first of what promises to be several real estate products added to the platform over time. Chuck Schreiber, CEO of KBS, joins us to explain the new venture. (11/2017)

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)