Videos & Podcasts

Heather Border, managing partner at Alliance Global Advisors, discusses five key recommendations to encourage a more productive fundraise. (03/2020)

Loretta Clodfelter, senior editor of Institutional Real Estate Americas, and Mike Consol, editor of Real Assets Adviser, discuss the recent reporting done by both magazines and via podcasts about the affordable housing crisis and some of the approaches being pursued by investors. (03/2020)

Mitesh “Mit” Shah, CEO of Noble Investment Group, has invested around $4 billion in the U.S. hotel business through his organization’s real estate funds. He talks about his past and present strategies, why so many real estate investors leave the hotel/hospitality property type out of their portfolios, and why the select-service and extended-stay segments of the hotel business offer such good opportunities. Shah is also part of the ownership group that controls the Atlanta Hawks, the franchised rated as having…

Sam Bendix, managing director, investor relations at National Real Estate Advisors, discusses if technological obsolescence is a significant risk factor in data center investment and what are the current and future demand drivers for data centers. (03/2020)

Russ Appel, founding principal at Praedium Group, discusses risk as it relates to late-cycle investing and how to manage and mitigate risk in real estate portfolios. (02/2020)

Jonathan Schein, global head of business development of Institutional Real Estate, Inc., along with Alan James, senior vice president, AIM, at RealPage, and Nick Moore, co-founder and executive director at Lionpoint Group, will explore the challenges and viable solutions of extracting and delivering data faster for smarter decision-making.

Is there any bigger social problem today than the lack of affordable housing? It is a global crisis — so much so that affordable housing was on the agenda at the 2020 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Among the people on the ground in Davos was a person looking to put a dent in the affordable housing problem with the backing of 58 high-net-worth families, is our guest. Randy Norton of Green Mesa Capital, and chairman of MultiGreen Properties,…

What is the current status of co-working in Asia? How did it get to this stage? Is the WeWork debacle co-working’s canary in the coal mine or strictly an example of excess? Where is co-working expected to be in five or 10 years? What does the trend mean for institutional real estate investors? Isaiah Usher, author of an article on the subject and vice president at Azimuth Global Partners, is our guest. (02/2020)

Will Pike, vice chairman and managing director of net lease property group at CBRE, discusses demand drivers in the U.S. net lease property sector, the risks investors should be aware of, and what they can expect to see more of in 2020. (02/2020)

Marek Handzel, editor of Institutional Real Estate Europe, is back from the VIP Europe conference, a gathering that gives investors and managers opportunities to socialize with one another and discuss the most pressing issues of the day. We ask Handzel about the conference’s top takeaways. (02/2020)

Geoffrey Dohrmann, founder and CEO of Institutional Real Estate, Inc., back from VIP conferences in North America and Europe, and preparing to head to New York City for the company’s annual sponsor briefing, engages in a wide-ranging discussion about those events and other topics. (02/2020)

Beth Mace, chief economist with the National Investment Center for the Seniors Housing & Care Industries (NIC), discusses 10-year projections for the middle-income seniors housing cohort, the challenges associated with this sector, and why it presents an untapped opportunity for investors. (02/2020)

New in-store technologies are being used by traditional retailers in their battle to retain market share against the onslaught of e-commerce retailers, giving shoppers a new and more engaging experience. Jamie Sabat, director of trends and consumer forecasting at Streetsense, and Meghann Martindale, global head of retail research for CBRE, have coauthored a report detailing some of these technologies and their impact. They join us to discuss their report about brick-and-mortar shopping today and going forward. (02/2020)

John Friedman, professor of economics at Brown University and co-founder of Opportunity Insights, discusses how big data is propelling upward mobility, misconceptions on "high mobility neighborhoods" and how investment managers can help close the opportunity gap. (02/2020) Friedman delivered the final keynote, Closing the Opportunity Gap: Social Mobility and Income Inequality, Examining Costs, Risks and Solutions, at the Visions, Insights & Perspectives (VIP) Americas 2020 conference, in Dana Point, Calif.

Investors have been wondering aloud about where we stand in the economic cycle and when the next recession will strike. Meanwhile, debt funds — some of which have been beefed up in anticipation of recession — have seen a precipitous drop in their fundraising efforts. Then there are worries about climate risk, particularly in certain U.S. and global cities. Also, what was the big theme at the latest VIP Americas conference? Loretta Clodfelter, senior editor of Institutional Real Estate Americas,…

Imagine renovating an occupied apartment unit in a single day, replacing the entire kitchen, the majority of bathroom components, lighting fixtures and door hardware throughout the apartment, all while the resident is at work. Now, imagine renovating three to four occupied apartments in one day — as well as an entire apartment community of 360 units in less than six months, without any increase to vacancy levels. There is an investment advisory firm doing exactly that. Our guests, John Gochberg…

Throughout the purpose-built student accommodation market’s short history, fluctuating supply pipelines have been a source of immense frustration and almost unbridled excitement. At present, there is no end in sight for the sector’s oscillating fortunes. Marek Handzel, editor of Institutional Real Estate Europe, discusses the situation. (01/2020)

Brian Zrimsek, industry principal at MRI Software, discusses the characteristics of Millennials, the approach Millennials take toward management, Millennials' use of tech in the workplace and more. (01/2020)

Jeff Kanne, president and CEO at National Real Estate Advisors, discusses how tenants choose the locations of their data centers operations, why investors should invest in an operating company rather than a stand-alone property and more. (01/2020)

Recently, at the Greenbuild International Conference and Expo in Atlanta, Anna Murray, VP of sustainable investing at BentallGreenOak, discussed new research that quantifies the cost savings resulting from tenant engagement and energy efficiency programs, based on 15 years of building data from hundreds of office buildings in North America. The results of the organization’s ForeverGreen and Eco Tracker programs have been more than encouraging. Murray joins us — along with Avis Devine, associate professor of real estate at York University…