Videos & Podcasts

Institutional real estate investors tend to overlook Japan, despite good opportunities in the Land of the Rising Sun. That is the word from Shusaku “Shu” Watanabe, a director at Nuveen Real Estate. Why is Japan routinely overlooked? What opportunities are going unnoticed? Why is Japan’s aging citizenry and shrinking population not a red flag for the housing industry? What are some of the precautions would-be investors should take into account before making financial commitments to Japan’s housing sector? We discuss.…

The real estate industry has traditionally been slow to adopt new technologies, but proptech appears to be changing that. Also featured in the February edition of Institutional Real Estate Americas are a pair of stories about the debt markets and the forces driving them. Editor Loretta Clodfelter walks us through those topics. (02/2019)

VIP Europe, the sister event of IREI’s highly acclaimed VIP Americas event, once again attracted some of the institutional real estate industry’s top investment managers, investors and consultants. Marek Handzel, editor of Institutional Real Estate Europe, was there and offers his insights from the gathering. (02/2019)

What property types are attracting the most dollars or enthusiasm these days? What property type or types have fallen out of favor with investors? How does various investment strategies — such as core, value-add and opportunistic — stack up? Are tier-one markets still hoovering up the dollars, or is the appeal of secondary markets continued to assert itself? Michael Campbell, CEO of The Carlton Group, joins us to discuss those issues. (02/2019)

Fredrick W. Pierce, president and CEO at Pierce Education Properties, discusses current trends, investment activity and the outlook for the student housing market. (02/2019)

Jacques Gordon, global head of research and strategy at LaSalle Investment Management, discusses the macro outlook for 2019 as well as some investment strategy implications for that outlook. (02/2019)

Geoffrey Dohrmann, founder and CEO of Institutional Real Estate, Inc., discusses the just-completed VIP Americas meeting, the upcoming VIP Europe meeting, and his take and key themes from a segment he has dubbed “the world as our readers see it.” (02/2019)

Adam Ruggiero, the head of real estate research and strategy for MetLife Investment Management, recently authored an investment strategy report titled Real Estate and Reflation, in which he and his co-authors counterintuitively reason that rising deficits and partisan political gridlock in Washington, D.C., might actually work in favor of real estate investors. He joins us to elaborate on why he and research team members have come to that conclusion. (02/2019)

What convinces a Google executive — who has played leadership roles in Google Maps, Google Apps and Google Station — to leave the technology giant in favor of the real estate and property technology space? Vinay Goel, new chief digital product officer at JLL, joins us to discuss his move and the exciting prospects for new property technologies. (01/2019)

What is the difference between mobile, manufactured and modular housing? What exactly is a voice-activated, electrically self-sustaining luxury home? What is the cost of factory-built modular construction versus traditional on-site construction? What about speed and quality of construction? Second-generation developer and builder John Rowland, president and co-founder of S2A Construction, joins the program to illuminate on advantages of construction in controlled factory environments. (01/2019)