Videos & Podcasts

Brennen Degner, co-founder and CEO at DB Capital Management, discusses what indicators LPs should be watching for that would signal a time to start investing in the multifamily sector, which regions or markets are best positioned for investment, how the apartment market has performed in the past year and the expectations for 2024 and what LPs should understand about the current multifamily investment environment. (04/2024)

Drew Conway, head of data science, private investments at Two Sigma, discusses some examples of how data science can be implemented in the real estate process, why real estate has been such a laggard when it comes to innovating how to use, collect and analyze data, where he sees the biggest impact and opportunity of data science/AI in real estate, how data science can help investors and fund managers navigate the investment process and decision making and more. (04/2024)

Institutional Real Estate, Inc. and EPRA present the first of their quarterly series providing a comprehensive analysis of key aspects shaping the European Listed Real Estate sector. (03/2024) Discussion includes: An examination of the recent performance of the European Listed Real Estate indexes, offering insights into their trends and fluctuations. A detailed exploration will follow, focusing on the differences across various sectors and geographies within the European real estate market. Current market trends and the prevailing economic environment, shedding light…

Marek Handzel, editor of Institutional Real Estate Europe, reports the jury is still out on the effect of rent control policies being rolled out across the continent. (03/2024)

Ryan Swehla, principal and co-founder at Graceada Partners, discusses the different dynamics at play in secondary and tertiary markets versus primary markets, how secondary and tertiary markets have performed over the last 18 months, how population shifts and migration have supported a secondary and tertiary market thesis and the forecast for the secondary and tertiary markets over the next 24-36 months. (03/2024)

Geoffrey Dohrmann, chairman and CEO at Institutional Real Estate, Inc., and Garrett Zdolshek, chief investment officer at IDR Investment Management, discuss the revaluation of the NFI-ODCE Index during 2023 and the key trends they are following in the beginning of 2024. (03/2024)

Scott Robinson, professor of capital markets at New York University, oversees a student-managed REIT fund managing money from the university's benefactors. How are the students faring? What property types are the students emphasizing in the fund? What are their aspirations in the real estate industry post graduation?  Professor Robinson explains. (03/2024)

Simon Durkin, global head of real estate research and analytics at BlackRock, joins Marek Handzel, the editor of Institutional Real Estate Europe, to discuss the five "megaforces" that BlackRock believes will drive real estate investment decision-making over the next few years — and beyond. (03/2024)

Carla Stoner, chief financial officer at Harbor Group International, discusses the current insurance premium cost trends and what is driving these trends, what other factors might be causing rising insurance premiums, what regions and property types are most at risk and how have rising interest rates impacted the insurance industry. (03/2024)

Annie Malo, a partner with the law firm Holland & Knight LLP, represents tenants and landlords in her retail practice and has witnessed a post-pandemic boom in U.S. retailing. This comes after years of investors treating the sector as though it were kryptonite. (03/2024)

Stuart Daun, COO at The Proptech Connection, has written that AI promises to be a major real estate trend during the next 10 to 15 years, with nimbler investors and operators evolving and adapting quickly, while tech laggards struggle to maintain relevance in a fast-changing landscape. (02/2024)

Greg Davies of Oxford Risk is a specialist in applied behavioral finance and decision science. He founded the banking business’s first behavioral finance team at Barclays in 2006, which he led for a decade. In additional to being a frequent speaker on the subject, Davies runs “behavioral wine tasting events” with wine master John Downes. (02/2024)

Ben Young, CIO at Buckingham and a former managing director at BlackRock in New York, is now stationed in Indianapolis and has much to say about the friendliness, work ethic and general ethos of Midwesterners — and the grand investment opportunities in the so-called Fly-Over States. (02/2024)

Kate Kaminski, COO at Walton Global, discusses the strengths and weaknesses of the U.S. housing market, as well as the just-in-time delivery of developable land to investors and builders. (02/2024)

Marek Handzel, editor of Institutional Real Estate Europe, reports that behind the depressing economic headlines, student housing continues to tell a positive story. (02/2024)

Loretta Clodfelter, editorial director of Institutional Real Estate Inc., wrote a feature story 14 years ago based on a report titled Cloistered in the Pink Ghetto. The paper, authored by Nori Gerardo Lietz of Areté Capital, decried the scarcity of women executives in the real estate business. Fast-forward 14 years and much has changed, as documented in the new feature on the subject appearing in the March 2024 issue of Institutional Real Estate Americas. Clodfelter explains during this episode. (02/2024)

Bob Cardoza, president of the western region at FirstService Residential, discusses HOAs and their commercial equivalent, as well as the major issues they face and the financial opportunities they can create. (02/2024)

Geoffrey Dohrmann, founder and CEO of Institutional Real Estate, Inc., expounds on the U.S. housing shortage, water, property insurance, homelessness and the impact of negative media coverage. (02/2024)

Geoffrey Dohrmann, founder, chairman and CEO at Institutional Real Estate, Inc., sits down with Brandon Sedloff, managing director and SVP at Juniper Square, on The Distribution podcast to discuss the evolution of institutional real estate, the potential for a pension fund crisis and his predictions for 2024. (02/2024) Listen to the interview here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-evolution-of-institutional-real-estate/id1677652734?i=1000645958124

Christopher Yip, managing partner at RET Ventures, discusses what challenges real estate owners are seeking to solve with technology, what new building technologies investors should know about, how AI is being used in building tech and the outlook for the building tech sector in 2024. (02/2024)