Videos & Podcasts

What are the dimensions of today’s debt market? What are the primary lending sources? Are financiers relaxing their underwriting standards? Where are the best opportunities for investors on the private debt side? These are among the questions answered during this podcast interview featuring Kurt Wright, CEO of Quadrant Real Estate Advisors. We invite you to download or click the “play” button. (04/2014)

Bill Ferguson — one of the leading executive search professionals in the real estate business, and author of the book Keepers of the Castle — joins us to give his best advice on how up-and-comers can differentiate themselves in ways that could eventually catapult them to the top of a major real estate organizations. (04/2014)

Todd Briddell, CEO/CIO at CenterSquare Investment Management, discusses the current public REIT market and the outlook for 2014. (04/2014)

Contributing reporter Mard Naman, author of a story about runaway housing prices in China’s first-tier cities, discusses whether the price escalations are truly creating a real estate bubble, as well as what investors in China's residential market can do to protect their portfolios, and why there seems to be an exodus of Chinese developers and investors moving their resources to other countries. (04/2014)

Phil Fitzgerald, CEO at Jamestown Latin America, discusses what opportunities and challenges are presented when investing in Latin America. (03/2014)  

Mark Fogle, managing director and head of real estate – Asia at Baring Private Equity Asia, discusses which property types in which Asian markets are attracting the most interest and capital from institutional investors. (03/2014)

Cab Grayson, senior managing director – North America at CBRE Global Investors, discusses core property types in gateway markets and if it’s a good time to sell. (03/2014)

John Baczewski, president at Real Estate Fiduciary Services, discusses the U.S. economy’s demand for commercial real estate, the concern for interest rates and inflation and what types of investment strategies make sense in the current market environment. (03/2014)

Tom Morris, philosopher and author, discusses a few points from him keynote speech on the essential jobs at your office: the success and leadership secrets of Steve Jobs, at Institutional Real Estate, Inc.’s Visions, Insights and Perspectives conference. (03/2014)

Geoffrey Dohrmann, founder and CEO of Institutional Real Estate, Inc., discusses the company's recent VIP Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, investors' desire to move up the risk curve, the single-family home rental strategy being pursued by several major investment managers and REITs, and the difficulty many investment managers are having differentiating their offerings from competitors. (03/2014)

Cherie Santos-Wuest, current chair of the Responsible Property Investment Council at the Urban Land Institute, discusses the council's role in promoting responsible property investing in the United States and abroad. Santos-Wuest, whose full-time post is as principal investment officer for real estate at Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds, also discusses the organization's UNEP Finance Initiative. (03/2014)

Scott Stuckman, executive managing director at USAA Real Estate Co., discusses the firm's corporate pension fund real estate program, its portfolio and its strategies/plans for the coming months. (03/2014)

John McClelland, principal investment officer – real estate at the Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association, discusses LACERA’s program to originate new first mortgages through separate account relationships with several managers and how those investments have performed to date. (03/2014)

Richard Fleming, editor of The Institutional Real Estate Letter — Europe, discusses his cover story about how Germany has managed to remain a favorite destination for global real estate investment dollars. (03/2014)

Jonathan Last, senior writer at The Weekly Standard, discusses a few points from him keynote speech on what to expect when no one is expecting at Institutional Real Estate, Inc.’s Visions, Insights and Perspectives conference. (03/2014)

Neil Irwin, columnist at Washington Post and author, discusses a few points from him keynote speech on highlights of the alchemists: three central world bankers and a world on fire, at Institutional Real Estate, Inc.’s Visions, Insights and Perspectives conference. (03/2014)  

Randall Zisler, chief investment officer at Encore Enterprises, discusses appropriate strategies and his assessment of the current primary core markets. (03/2014)

Robert Bellinger, CEO of ASB Real Estate Investments, discusses urban migration, the trend toward urban retailing, and investment opportunities these trends are presenting for institutional investors. (02/2014)

Christopher Thornberg, founding partner and economist at Beacon Economics, discusses the Fed’s QE program and ramifications, the U.S. economy and its expansion, U.S. GDP growth, primary driving industries, U.S. commercial and residential real estate, and his biggest concerns about the economic recovery. (02/2014)

Contributing reporter Benjamin Cole discusses India's promise, why foreign direct investment has been lacking, and what trends portend a better future for the world's largest democracy. (02/2014)