A new crowdfunding platform works to eliminate middlemen and outdated regulations in the commercial real estate market.

Sonny Kalsi describes GreenOak’s “core four strategy” for pinpointing value in these saturated, major cities. Plus: why cap rates from secondary cities just don’t cut it.

Rising interest rates will have a significant impact on commercial real estate in 2014, but it is the unprecedented volume of cross-border capital that will most fundamentally change the industry.

The capital flows for private real estate he become an international pool – how do global firms like Hines build relationships in these emerging regions?

Why build-to-suit financing is a win-win model for growing companies and real estate investors.

KKR’s global head of real estate Ralph Rosenberg explains the firm’s strategy for growth-orientated capital in the US, and how even in Europe it’s lining up growth financing deals with development companies.

Learn how the biggest real estate LPs invest in emerging managers and what your firm can do to successfully tap these huge sources of capital.

Article on how the Texas Teachers pension allocates to the space, what they are looking for in EMs and why it presents such an attractive opportunity.

Article on the steps emerging managers need to follow to truly understand what it means to be a manager of institutional real estate capital.

CalPERS and New York Common have launched alternative programs to target the real estate emerging manager space.

Article for emerging managers taking that giant step of becoming institutional investment managers.

Emerging managers need to show potential LPs what they’re missing. Our panel of investors and experts discusses raising co-investment capital alongside a fund and the impact on future capital raising.

Two leading real estate LPs explain what they want to see in their managers and how it’s sometimes silly, minor mis-steps that can jeopardize a partnership

Michael Hoffmann of Probitas Partners talks about the rising demand for credit and distressed debt funds, GP reinvention and Europe’s repositioning play.

With real estate capital concentrated in the hands of fewer GPs, Charles Purse of Park Hill Real Estate argues managers need to be relevant to the users of real estate, as well as their LPs.

Richard Jaffe, a partner at Duane Morris LLP, says that PE firms are entering perilous times on three fronts: enforcement, regulation and fundraising negotiation.

Kelly DePonte of Probitas Partners discusses his outlook for the defined contribution market and its long-term role in private equity.

The re-up rate for follow-on funds is now averaging 50 percent, posing a serious challenges for GPs about to hit the fundraising trail. What is the best strategy for fundraising success in this environment? Make sure to influence the LP influencers.