Jaguar Growth Partners is building a $2B deal pipeline and plans to open Brazil and Asia offices in the next two years. Gary Garrabrant discusses starting the firm, lessons learned and where he sees the greatest opportunities.

New York City office has a lot of room for occupancy and rental growth, according to ClearRock Properties founders Steve Grant and Doug Winshall.

Distressed developers are the best Brazilian real estate investment opportunity today, says Ken Wainer of VBI Real Estate.

Healthy buildings are the next stage of the sustainable movement. Paul Scialla of the Well Building Standards says they can also boost rental rates by up to 25 percent.

Investors are pricing in long-term low yields in Europe, meaning LPs should target irreplaceable assets says LaSalle Investment Management’s Europe head of strategy.

Investors are set to allocate more than €35B of new equity to real estate, but are struggling to find suitable vehicles, INREV CEO Matthias Thomas reveals.

Kayne Anderson Real Estate Advisors is looking to deploy $1B of equity in U.S. senior living, with ambitions of being in the top 25 largest owners.

Success in senior living is not just about caring for the elderly. It also means ensuring your brand is SEO-compliant and has a high profile online.

The lack of multifamily development in NYC has created affordability crisis, even in luxury sector, and could push rental growth to 10 percent, says Stonehenge’s Ofer Yardeni.

Union Investment eyes deploying “bulk” of €2.5B annual capital outlay internationally. UK, Japan, Australia, Singapore and US are targets.

Union Investment looks to invest more than $2B of co-investment equity in the Americas, the firm’s newly-appointed Head of Americas, Thomas Gnieser, says.

The Davis Companies’ Jonathan Davis talks about performing due diligence on Pittsburgh’s Union Trust Building with just a bankruptcy filing and the company’s plans to transform it into Class A office space

Manhattan’s lack of affordable Class B and Class C office space is pushing tenants into Brooklyn, Long Island City and the Bronx, says Greg Smith of JRT Realty.

Open-plan offices don’t reduce a tenant’s real estate footprint, can reduce worker productivity and can be “unmitigated disaster” for some, says REIS’s Ryan Severino.

Small suburban offices could be the losers in the battle for performance, says TIAA-CREF’s Martha Peyton, who says the 100 sq. ft per person office space might become reality.

Reduce operating expenses by focusing on tenant quality, says Stonehenge’s Ofer Yardeni. Then, “do what’s necessary to keep them.”

The expense of tenant improvements is one of the greatest challenges facing the office sector, says The Davis Companies’ Jonathan Davis

Forum Partners eyes retail investors, and potential M&A growth in the North American debt sector, says CEO Russell Platt