Videos & Podcasts

Two acronyms — one old (FIRPTA), one new (PATH) — are on the lips of tax lawyers and foreign investors interested in targeting U.S. real estate in a more tax-friendly way. Loretta Clodfelter, editor of Institutional Real Estate Americas, explains the expected impact of the legislative changes. (03/2016)

Geoffrey Dohrmann, founder and CEO of Institutional Real Estate, Inc., discusses immigration's financial impact, capital flight from China, sliding bank stocks, foreign investment in U.S. real estate, and the still beleaguered domestic housing market. (02/2016)

What are the biggest mistakes forecasters make when offering their prognostications? What are the two critical, interrelated questions forecasters must ask to improve their forecasts? Why is forecasting more dangerous than ever, even though the information available to investors is the most reliable it has ever been? Hamel Shah, a partner with Azimuth Global Partners, explains. (02/2016)

Geoffrey Dohrmann, founder and CEO of Institutional Real Estate, Inc., discusses San Francisco office rents, the disparity between public and private real estate valuations, cheap oil, economic tumult in China, and other investor issues of the day. (01/2016)

Technology-driven property markets have outperformed low-tech cities during the current expansion. Loretta Clodfelter, editor of Institutional Real Estate Americas, joins the program to explain what is happening and why. (01/2016)

Jeff Kanne — CEO of National Real Estate Advisors and the co-author of an article that appeared in both Real Assets Adviser magazine and Institutional Real Estate Americas magazine — joins us to discuss the driverless-car revolution and his perspectives on how it is destined to cause mass disruption in the real estate business and force investors to rethink the financial commitments they make. (01/2016)

Asieh Mansour, senior advisor at The Townsend Group, identifies and discusses four key trends that will have implications for CRE investing and portfolio exposure. (12/2015)

Geoffrey Dohrmann, President & CEO, Publisher & Editor-in-chief at Institutional Real Estate, Inc., recaps the commercial real estate market and the happenings at IREI in 2015. (12/2015)

In this year-ending podcast, Geoffrey Dohrmann, founder and CEO of Institutional Real Estate, Inc., discusses the cost of pollution in China, the hotel business, construction forecasts, the so-called rental-rate crisis in the United States, the city of Chicago's fading gravitas, Asia-Euro transaction activity, and the brightening performance of funds of funds targeting Asia and Europe. (12/2015)

Leonie Wilkinson, regional director of client capital in the Asia Pacific region for LaSalle Investment Management, explains why Australian diversified open-end funds maximize the benefits and mitigate the risks of real estate investing. (12/2015)

We discuss IREI's second annual Springboard conference, a leadership development program for the next generation of real estate investment leaders. Our guests are conference mentors Glenn Lowenstein, a partner and CIO at Lionstone Investments; Steve Gruber, managing director of Real Asset Portfolio Management; John D’Angelo, managing director of RealFoundations, Inc.; and Scott Stuckman, executive managing director at USAA Real Estate Co. (11/2015)

Chris Miers, consultant at Bard Consulting, discusses how capital from a multitude of sources around the globe that are targeting CRE properties in primary U.S. markets is affecting U.S. institutional investors’ strategies. (11/2015)

IREI editors Mike Consol and Loretta Clodfelter discuss the latest statistics on the significant growth of the real estate investment pie and the shifting percentages controlled by the industry's mega-firms and emerging firms. (11/2015)

This month, Geoffrey Dohrmann, founder and CEO of Institutional Real Estate, Inc., reviews a trio of recent IREI events, including the company's recent Editorial Advisory Board meetings in Asia and Europe, as well as the second annual Springboard conference. (10/2015)

Our guest is Jeff Stonger, an executive with Amstar, the Denver-based real estate investment house, who discusses his organization's opportunistic investment in the previously stalled Warsaw residential high-rise Zlota 44. (10/2015)

Philip Pearce, a managing director at the Goodman Group, joins us from Hong Kong to discuss the giant nation's continued urbanization and the development of its consumer class, e-commerce, logistics, transportation and warehouse sectors. (10/2015)

Drew Ierardi, senior portfolio manager, real assets & emerging market strategy, at Exelon Corp., discusses the difference between operator funds versus allocator funds. (10/2015)

Sebastien Nadeau, senior analyst, global real estate securities at Presima, discusses changes in the mall business due to the growth of e-commerce and gives a brief outlook on the coming holiday season. (10/2015)

Sarah Biggs, associate director of investor relations at Long Wharf Real Estate Partners, discusses strategy, the growing importance of consultants and fund closing differences in the value-add fundraising market. (10/2015)

Brooks Monroe, client portfolio manager at Invesco Real Estate, discusses some of the economic, capital market and/or real estate trends he will be watching in the coming year. (10/2015)