Videos & Podcasts

Warren Wachsberger, CEO at AECOM Capital, discusses the outlook for real estate investment in 2023, the view on real estate valuations and if there will be significant write-downs this year, how different property types have reacted to the rising interest rate environment and more. (03/2023)

Marek Handzel, editor of Institutional Real Estate Europe, reports on the major themes discussed during a series of European roundtables, as well as a couple of top stories from the newly released April 2023 edition of the magazine. (03/2023)

Rich Hill, head of strategy and research, real estate, at Cohen & Steers, discusses the role REITs can play in institutional investors’ portfolios, how an allocation to REITs can complement an allocation to private real estate and what institutional investors should understand about investing in REITs. (03/2023)

Geoffrey Dohrmann, chairman and CEO at Institutional Real Estate, Inc., and Garrett Zdolshek, portfolio manager at IDR Investment Management, discuss the performance of the NFI-ODCE Index during 2022 and what trends they are following in the year ahead. (03/2023) Speakers: Geoffrey Dohrmann Chairman and CEO Institutional Real Estate, Inc. Garrett Zdolshek Portfolio Manager IDR Investment Management

Chase McWhorter, managing director, Americas and Infrastructure at Institutional Real Estate, provides a recap from a panel he moderated at recent PPI event. The panel was focused on real estate investment amid high rates. (03/2023)

Jordan Suppan, managing director, U.S. real estate credit at Leste Group, discusses what cities/geographical areas are showing the best opportunity for real estate financing, an update on the construction financing market and if investors/managers focusing more on construction financing, which property types are finding it easiest or most difficult to get financed and more. (03/2023)

Jeffrey Cho, managing director at Portfolio Advisors, discusses the latest developments in the real estate secondaries market and what that might indicate about the current real estate investment market, the expectations for the real estate secondaries market in the year ahead, how LPs might use the real estate secondaries market to manage their portfolio and more. (03/2023)

An outlook of trends and challenges for 2023, featuring insights from Carl Boswell, National Real Estate Advisors; Jim Costello; MSCI Real Estate; Ron Miller, The Amherst Group; Ben Maslan, RCLCO Fund Advisors; Brendan MacDonald, StepStone Real Estate; and Ike Alder, Utah Retirement Systems. (03/2023) Participants shared their views at IREI Springboard and the iREOC Membership Meeting in October and November, 2022.

Taylor Mammen, CEO at RCLCO, discusses some of the ways to invest as a direct property investor, if investors typically start with a core property portfolio, the differences when pursuing different strategies: core, value-add, opportunistic, and more. (03/2023)

Lauren Winkler, senior director of ESG at The Green Cities Company, discusses why decarbonizing the portfolio is valuable for investment managers and provides key takeaways for managers looking to integrate decarbonization into their strategies. (03/2023) For a more in-depth take on this topic, read Lauren's article, "Clean air, one building at a time," which appeared in the March issue of Institutional Real Estate, Americas.

Geoffrey Dohrmann, chairman and CEO at Institutional Real Estate, Inc., and Garrett Zdolshek, portfolio manager at IDR Investment Management, discuss an overview of the NFI-ODCE index. (02/2023)

Christine Mastandrea — COO of Whitestone Real Estate Investment Trust, which owns, develops and redevelops e-commerce-resistant neighborhood and lifestyle retail centers — lends us her voice and expertise in discussing the domino effect that office sector travails are having on the portion of the retail sector that has colonized around office buildings in financial and business districts. (02/2023)

Multifamily has been hot for years, and some markets hotter than others. But what is the hottest apartment market of them all? Shakti C’Ganti, founder and CEO of Ashland Greene Capital and former investment banker at Lehman Bros., says there is one market that has risen above all other, based on five key drivers. He joins the program to identify that market and explain the measurements used to assess its supremacy. (02/2023)

Rich Ratke, managing principal at Walton Street Capital, discusses how the competitive landscape has changed over the past year for real estate debt, how debt platforms and debt strategies are differentiated, how a rising rate environment has impacted lenders and borrowers and more. (02/2023)

Loretta Clodfelter, senior editor of Institutional Real Estate Americas, discusses the trend toward outsourcing back-office accounting and reporting, as well as forecasts and predictions from institutional real estate observers. Both of the topics are explored in the March 2023 edition of the magazine. (02/2023)

Marek Handzel, editor of Institutional Real Estate Europe, reports that overlaying the new Sustainable Finance Dis­closure Regulation framework to real estate managers’ and investors’ portfolios is “an exercise in fitting a square peg in a round hole,” according to a new report on ESG from INREV. He explains the dilemmas being faced by real estate interest. (02/2023)

Amy Lynch, founder and president of FrontLine Compliance — and a former regulator at both the SEC and FINRA — makes a return appearance to the program to discuss recent regulatory action by the SEC on cryptocurrencies, ESG, the agency’s new marketing rule, and its concerns around private funds. (02/2023)

Featured on this edition of the program is Jim Costello, chief economist at MSCI Real Assets, to discuss the latest trends in U.S. real estate deal flows and the economic conditions driving the deals that are getting done — and not getting done. (02/2023)

Ben Maslan, at RCLCO Fund Advisors, discusses why newer office properties are performing well amid declining demand, which products will find the most success moving forward and which properties will get left behind. (02/2023) Ben attended the iREOC Membership Meeting in Austin on Nov. 14-16, 2022.

Gunnar Branson, the CEO of AFIRE (the Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate), joins the program to discuss his organization’s insights with regard to foreign capital flows into the United States, secondary real estate markets, the country’s aging population and its restrictive immigration policy. (02/2023)