Videos & Podcasts

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)

The grey factor, one of the feature stories appearing in the February 2019 edition of Institutional Real Estate Europe, discusses the continent's senior living sector and its rising appeal to institutional investors. The story's author and the magazine's editor, Marek Handzel, joins us to explain why Europe’s senior housing sector is fast catching up with its American and other counterparts. (01/2019)

How is thematic investing defined? What economic themes comprise thematic investing? What are the advantages to thematic investing — as well as the pitfalls? How often does thematic investing need to be reassessed and potentially refreshed? We discuss those questions with Spencer Smith, head of institutional investments at Chevy Chase Trust, and co-manager of the global thematic focused portfolio, which is the organization’s flagship portfolio. (01/2019)

What exactly is adaptive reuse? What happens to obsolete retail properties? What is driving investor interest in this practice? Loretta Clodfelter, editor of Institutional Real Estate Americas, discusses the trend, featured in the January 2019 edition of the magazine. (01/2019)

What is the difference between “affordable housing” and “workforce housing”? What are the different investment possibilities in these sectors? How has the recent Tax Cuts & Jobs Act affected the affordable housing market? And how does affordable housing fit into an impact investing approach? Loretta Clodfelter, editor of Institutional Real Estate Americas, discusses the story she authored for the December 2018 edition of the magazine. (12/2018)

Geoffrey Dohrmann, founder and CEO of Institutional Real Estate Inc., discusses the just-completed 2018 Asia Pacific Editorial Advisory Board meeting and its insights from Asian investors and managers, as well as the upcoming invitation-only 2018 CEO Summit in New York City. (12/2018)