Specialist property LPs and GPs investing in Europe face new dangers from the wave of multi-asset class managers targeting the region, says Forum CEO Russell Platt.

Jeff Giller talks about Clairvue Capital’s acquisition by StepStone, the need to grow through M&A and how to navigate global markets that are “fraught with risk.”

Family office GID International quantifies the risk premium it requires to invest in Brazil and India: up to 1,000bp over US development yields, says Ken Munkacy.

An executive at PE firm WL Ross lays out the magnitude of the increase in shale drilling productivity and how its impact extends to real estate

The only way to play a recovering real estate market is “slowly, carefully, one asset at a time,” according to BlackRock global head of real estate Jack Chandler.

Four major players could soon dominate the U.S. single-family rental industry, as the sector contemplates consolidating to fuel growth.

An executive summary of the PrivcapRE thought-leadership series “Understanding Real Estate Exit Strategies”

Experts from W. P. Carey, AXA Real Estate and Real Capital Analytics discuss Europe’s core and peripheral markets, new Asian investors on the scene and the likelihood of increasing bank dispositions.

Higher going-in cap rate markets do not pay, argues TIAA-CREF’s Martha Peyton. Lower yielding markets deliver higher total returns over longer-term, she explains.

Experts from W. P. Carey, AXA Real Estate and Real Capital Analytics discuss the U. S. market, rental growth assumptions in 2014 and insights into whether cap rates will expand, or continue to compress.

Jack Taylor of Prudential Real Estate Investors on where to find relative value—and where not to—in mezzanine debt, why second-tier markets are attractive, and which European countries to look at.

An expert conversation with Alan James about Yardi’s technological solutions for real estate firms and where the industry will see future innovation.

The Pan-Latin Strategy: Tom Heneghan, of emerging-markets specialists Equity International, discusses the group’s presence in Brazil and Colombia and the room for growth in both economies.

Class A offices, liquidity and lease terms in Warsaw. W. P. Carey’s Jeffrey Lefleur describes the firm’s latest acquisition in Poland.

Our panel of experts from W. P. Carey, AXA Real Estate and Real Capital Analytics explore the markets ripe for sales, growing appetite for portfolio sales and opportunities for spread investors.

W. P. Carey’s appetite for secondary transactions looks set to grow, says Kathleen Barthmaier, describing the firm’s $23m Avnet deal in Phoenix, Arizona.

Robert Lieber of C-III Capital Partners gives a macro look at the real estate market, including the impact of Fed moves, where rates are going, and what areas are bouncing back.

Jeff Edison of Phillips Edison talks about transforming a stalled 16-story, partially completed development, taken out of REO, into a leading retail center with Saks as anchor tenant.