Successful investing in the U.S. senior living market ultimately comes down to picking the right operator, say Noah Levy of PREI and Chris Kazantis of AEW.

Prolifico talks about its plans to develop pure retail and wholesale colocation data centers in Brazil with up to 20 megawatts of capacity.

Multifamily investors need to take control of their acquisition process to ensure they’re not buying—and overpaying—for apartments they don’t really want, a panel of experts tells PrivcapRE.

PrivcapRE editor Zoe Hughes spoke with Jason Kern, CEO of the Americas at LaSalle Investment Management, about the weight of foreign capital targeting U.S. property markets, and how investors and managers need to avoid chasing yields into lower-quality markets.

There’s no quick win in the U.S. senior living sector, say PREI’s Noah Levy and AEW’s Chris Kazantis. Success is about operational expertise and slowly growing NOIs.

A long-standing practice of using REIT structures within private funds for tax purposes could be overturned, thanks to an SEC audit, and could force GPs to cover the cost of additional reporting and disclosure.

U.S. multifamily faces a perfect investment storm thanks to demographics, driving continued strong returns in secondary – and even suburban – markets, a panel of PrivcapRE experts says.

W. P. Carey executive director Katie Barthmaier talks about the firm’s acquisition of the Intuit office property in Plano, Texas and how the tenant’s $9M of capital improvements since 2001 helped them underwrite a shorter lease term.

Acquiring a 15-year net lease deal of a European home improvement retail store in Austria, W. P. Carey’s Jeffrey LeFleur talks about underwriting and risks in retail.

Doing a sale-leaseback or net lease deal? Walk the space, says our panel of real estate experts including W. P. Carey, KKR and MB Real Estate, especially if you’re buying shorter leases.

LaSalle Investment Management is shifting its focus increasingly towards core in Asia, even though it can be difficult to achieve scale, says Asia Pacific CEO Mark Gabbay.

Demand continues to outstrip supply of hotel rooms across the U.S., prompting private equity real estate firms to look outside the country for deal flow.

For-sale residential and multifamily investments in Africa will be huge growth areas thanks to domestic LPs overlooking the property type, says IHS’ Soula Proxenos.

Investors who have missed the recent momentum in the Mexican market may find industrial, retail, and residential development a lucrative long-term solution.

GPs need to be increasingly nimble in order to attract the unprecedented wave of foreign capital targeting U.S. commercial real estate, says RSM partner Tom Green.

New household formation could signal a boon for U.S. land prices as homebuilding continues its strong recovery, say three experts.

Cross-border capital flows into the U.S. require GPs to be even more nimble than before. But it comes with major structural challenges, says RSM’s Tom Green.

Investors are warned not to sell off all their real estate assets today because of hot pricing, as it will take them decades to replicate their portfolios, says TIAA-CREF CIO of global real estate, Philip McAndrews.