Videos & Podcasts

Tune in regularly to hear industry executives and thought leaders share their market perspectives and insights. In addition, keep abreast of industry trends and issues by listening to The Dohrmann Report, a monthly podcast with IREI chairman and CEO Geoffrey Dohrmann.

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Shop Talk: A new real estate platform for accredited investors and advisers

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)

Shop Talk: Opportunities in corporate housing

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)

Report from Europe: Hotel investing is moving into the mainstream

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)

Report from Asia: Measuring the liquidity of central business districts

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)

Shop Talk: Investing in Midwestern hotel properties

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)

Shop Talk: Applying blockchain technology to financial services

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)

Inside the Edition: Data centers, benchmarks and the 2028 L.A. Olympics

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)

Inside the Edition: Immigration and commercial real estate

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)

The Dohrmann Report: September 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)

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