Videos & Podcasts

Lange Allen, executive director for USAA Real Estate Co., discusses trends in the industrial sector, investors' return expectations, and market conditions at year-end 2014 and projections for 2015. (12/2014)

Emma Huepfl, head of capital management at Laxfield Capital Ltd., says there is plenty of debt capital available in Europe, yet financiers have not been exuberant about lending. She offers her insights as to why. (12/2014)

James Anderson, one of the principals at Tierra Partners, a firm that manages a private fund and provides strategic advice to institutional investors targeting Latin America, talks about the economic issues facing the region and why his organization favors investing in REITs rather than private real estate. (11/2014)

Daniel Cohen, senior vice president at Amstar, discusses what types of markets and properties to target for value-add type investments, as well as Amstar's recently launched spec industrial development strategy. (11/2014)

Paul McEvoy, senior managing director at DRA Advisors, discusses opportunities in today's value-added strategy market. (11/2014)

Contributing reporter Alex Frew McMillan discusses the story he authored about the various influences that are pulling — and pushing — Asian investors into overseas real estate markets. (11/2014)

This month, Geoffrey Dohrmann, founder and CEO of Institutional Real Estate, Inc., is joined by IREI project leader Salika Khizer to discuss the just-completed Springboard conference, the company's latest event. (11/2014)

Susan Wallace, executive managing director at USAA Real Estate Co., discusses core properties in today's market and USAA's focus. (11/2014)

Dennis Martin, head of U.S. business development at Prudential Real Estate Investors, discusses the growing interest in real assets. (11/2014)

David Lynn, author of the book The Advisor's Guide to Commercial Real Estate Investment, joins us to discuss his latest title. (11/2014)

Ryan Severino, a senior economist at Reis, Inc. reviews his firm's recent report announcing that U.S. apartment vacancies have increased for the first time in five years, as reported in the November edition of The Institutional Real Estate Letter – Americas. (11/2014)

John D’Angelo, a managing director at RealFoundations, a professional services firm focused on helping real estate organizations improve their operations, discusses the process involved in making change and improving performance. (10/2014)

Jennifer McConkey, sustainability director at Principal Real Estate Investors, offers a data-driven case for the benefits of green initiatives and sustainable practices. (10/2014)

Sheila Hopkins, managing director of Institutional Real Estate Inc.'s European operations, has returned from a month in Europe and offers her observations regarding the euro zone economy and the impact it is having on real estate. (10/2014)

Marc Peterson, CMBS manager at Principal Real Estate Investors, answers questions regarding the comeback of the CMBS market, the $400 billion in loans that are reaching maturation in the next four years, the numbers to watch in assessing the health of the CMBS market, and his forecast for originations during 2015. (10/2014)

Zee de Gersigny, managing director of Momentum Africa Investments, joins us to discuss the real estate investment opportunities in the emerging African continent. (10/2014)

Featured this month is Paul Rose, who authored a piece in the September edition of The Institutional Real Estate Letter about the growing appetite for property investment among the world’s sovereign wealth funds. Rose is a professor of law and executive director of law and capital markets at Ohio State University. He is also a researcher of sovereign wealth funds. (10/2014)

Are emerging manager programs on the rise? What are the biggest obstacles to setting up these programs? And what skills or characteristics are possessed by emerging managers who pass muster with investors? Peter Braffman, managing director at GCM Grosvenor, assists investors with setting up emerging manager programs, and he vets emerging management firms brought under consideration. He joins us to discuss this crowded and much-coveted space. (10/2014)

Linda Assante, partner at Jasper Ridge Partners, discusses why investors are incorporating real assets into portfolios and what the benefits are to this approach. (10/2014)

Dean Egerter, principal at Harrison Street Real Estate Capital, discusses what types of healthcare properties Harrison Street Real Estate Capital invests in and describes the current market fundamentals and investment opportunities. He also covers how long-term demographic trends play into the outlook for healthcare and healthcare-related properties. (09/2013)