Videos & Podcasts

The Australian real estate debt sector is undergoing substantial change and creating new opportunities for investors. Australian banks are withdrawing from real estate lending, creating openings for nonbank lenders. What kinds of opportunities is this creating for investors? To discuss we are joined by Peter Mitchell, director of Elysium Capital, and a consultant with Emerge Capital on offshore investment into real estate debt and equity products in Australia. He is also ex-CEO of the Asian Public Real Estate Association. (05/2019)

How is artificial intelligence going to be applied to real estate crowdfunding? What are the weaknesses of AI? What void is crowdfunding filling in the real estate market? And how can wealth managers use crowdfunding platforms on behalf of their clients? Our guest — Adam Hooper, founder and CEO of RealCrowd, an online real estate equity marketplace — takes on those subjects. (05/2019)

Chinese investment in U.S. commercial real estate boomed from 2014 until 2017, then it dropped off. Why the decline? What is behind China’s new strategy of capital controls? How air-tight is the Chinese government’s control over preventing the offshoring of wealth? What does the future hold? To discuss those issues we are joined by Ben Briggs, an executive with Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty, and lead author of the book Chinese Institutions’ Definitive Guide to USA Commercial Real Estate. (05/2019)

Andrew Holmberg, principal at Berkeley Partners, gives a brief update on the current light industrial market. (05/2019)

Crowdfunding platforms have now set their sights on underwriting infrastructure projects, albeit modestly, having raised only about $600 million thus far, and the vast majority of that for the energy sector. Still, it is a new and growing effort that is being tracked by our guest, Kate Gasparro, a Ph.D. student at Stanford University. (04/2019)

Jeff Giller, partner, head of real estate, StepStone Group Real Estate, discusses the concept and practice of combining asset management and advisory services. Despite some potential conflicts of interest — which can be mitigated — the changing landscape is making the combination of the two more practical and beneficial for investors. (04/2019)

Come 2025, travelers will be traveling between Dallas and Houston at upwards of 200 mph on Japanese manufactured trains as part of a roughly $17 billion project being entirely underwritten by private investors. What is the cost structure for the organization and what is its revenue model? What will it cost passengers? What ridership level is required to make a profit? Will the system compete with air travel? And what is it expected to do for surrounding real estate development…

Did you know Airbnb, VRBO and other hospitality marketplaces have started cutting deals with apartment communities to place short-term renters? Or that the economics of short-term rentals are allowing for more dynamic pricing in apartment communities and the potential for higher profitability? Our guest, Georgianna Oliver, CEO of Package Concierge, is operating in the thick of these new trends and sensibilities. She joins us to elaborate. (04/2019)

What does it mean that skilled nursing has moved from fee-for-service to value-based care? Why are there occupancy challenges despite the aging of the baby boomer generation? When is senior housing scheduled to reach its peak, and how long will that peak be sustained? What are the opportunities going forward? We discuss those issues with Bill Kauffman, who works with the research team at the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care. (04/2019)

With Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union facing a new Oct. 31 Halloween deadline and protests in the streets, how are real estate prices reacting to the social and political tumult? Marek Handzel, editor of Institutional Real Estate Europe, joins the program to discuss his thoughts on Brexit, real estate values and the euro zone at large. (04/2019)