Videos & Podcasts

Why are people who understand blockchain so excited about its prospects? What are its potential applications for the financial services business? Jaron Lukasiewicz — cofounder and CEO of WRKFLOW, a startup that offers broker/dealers, insurance companies and other enterprises workflow software based on blockchain technology to help automate and secure their business processes — explains how blockchain works and how it can be applied to the investment industry’s most vexing regulatory requirements. (10/2017)

Data centers continue booming with no end in sight, as the largest cloud computing providers spend billions on expansion and data center REITs rack up impressive returns. Meanwhile, there are warnings about the folly of overemphasizing real estate benchmarks, and optimism in Los Angeles as it wins its bid to host another Olympic Games. It's all in the October 2017 edition of Institutional Real Estate Americas. The magazine’s editor, Loretta Clodfelter, joins us to discuss. (10/2017)

Foreign immigration supports economic growth and real estate investment success, according to one of the lead stories in the September 2017 edition of Institutional Real Estate Americas. The magazine's editor and story's author, Loretta Clodfelter, elaborates. (09/2017)

Geoffrey Dohrmann and IREI celebrate their 30th anniversary with the publication of an anniversary magazine, a retrospective covering three decades in the evolution of the institutional real estate industry and U.S. business generally. The founder and CEO discusses the journey. (09/2017)

Richard Fleming, editor of Institutional Real Estate Europe, updates us on Brexit, the German federal election, Russia and the future of the continent. (09/2017)

Andrea Waitrovich, head of web content and editor of Institutional Real Estate Newsline, discusses the company's revamped website and its daily news feeds. (09/2017)

With a trillion dollars of infrastructure needs pending in India, private investors have an opportunity to get involved with a country committed to rapidly modernizing its economy and challenging China for economic supremacy in Asia. Rahul Mody, managing director and head of infrastructure at Ambit Corporate Finance, joins us from Mumbai to discuss. (09/2017)

Lawrence Souza, senior investment economist/advisor at Pillar6 Advisors, discusses the political economy and lack of policy making, interest rates, unemployment rates, when the next recession will hit and more. (08/2017)

Fred Pierce, president & CEO at Pierce Education Properties, discusses which markets/cities have the best prospects for student housing investment, what the outlook for the student housing sector looks like over the next couple years, how student housing fundamentals look and much more. (08/2017)

Geoffrey Dohrmann, founder and CEO of Institutional Real Estate, Inc., discusses the hiring of a new managing director of Institutional Investing in Infrastructure magazine, as well as some updates about the Institute for Real Estate Operating Companies (iREOC), the invitation-only club whose members (investors, managers and real estate operating companies) are seeking to form operating partnerships. (08/2017)