Videos & Podcasts

Stephanie Rodriguez, national director for industrial services at Colliers, oversees a complex network of warehouses, data centers, distribution centers and last-mile delivery hubs for the company. We ask about her outlook for industrial during 2024, including reshoring/nearshoring, speculative development, data centers, cold storage, the rise of in-house micro-fulfillment centers, construction starts and rent growth. (01/2024)

Marek Handzel, editor of Institutional Real Estate Europe, reports that reducing energy consumption within buildings is no easy business. What property owners need to meet their decarbonization targets and what information many tenants are prepared and able to hand over are two quite distinct things. Why is it hard to get many tenants to provide data on their energy usage? What can property owners do to get tenants to cooperate? And will “green leases” solve the problem? (01/2024)

Jesse Stein, global head of real estate at Airbnb, has rolled out an initiative that grabbed the attention and participation of institutional investors such as Greystar, Starwood Capital and Equity Residential. The program allows renters to list their apartments part-time on Airbnb to earn extra income. Investment managers and apartment operators hope to use the program to attract and retain more renters. (12/2023)

Geoffrey Dohrmann, founder and CEO of Institutional Real Estate, Inc., talks about the Federal Reserve, the current status of real estate property types, the opportunities that arise during market corrections, resolutions for the New Year, and something John Lennon said many years ago. (12/2023)

Marek Handzel, editor of Institutional Real Estate Europe, reports that many organizations are blaming hybrid working for a loss of productivity and underused office space. But a report from the management consultancy Alvarez & Marsal calls this analysis “tired and shallow.” Instead, companies need to revise their operating models, improve training and significantly alter how they use their real estate. (12/2023)

Loretta Clodfelter, editorial director of Institutional Real Estate Inc., highlights a pair of major features appearing in the January 2024 edition of the magazine. (12/2023)

Dan Mahoney, Europe head of research and strategy at LaSalle Investment Management talks to Marek Handzel, editor of Institutional Real Estate Europe about the manager's new 2024 Outlook report and discusses how diversification is still a "free lunch" and why investors have acclimatised to the new interest rate environment and are ready to allocate money in 2024

Ben Briggs, managing director of Briggs Capital Investments, points out that impact investing is targeting social needs ranging from assimilating refugees into the United States, to revitalizing communities, to battling the scourge of human trafficking — all while making returns on those investments. (12/2023)

Marek Handzel, editor of Institutional Real Estate Europe, recently wrote that investment in European living assets exceeded all other property sectors in the second quarter of 2023, with multifamily and student housing showing particular promise. (12/2023)

Aaron Tartakovsky, co-founder and CEO of Epic Cleantec, says only 2 percent of U.S. wastewater is recycled, and the built environment is the location where a high percentage of that waste is taking place. Meanwhile, real estate projects in locations including Phoenix and Tampa have been halted for lack of water. Enter the emerging era of onsite water recycling and reuse. What does it cost? What does it save? What are the continuing costs? And when does it pay for…