Don’t overpay for real estate, don’t over-lever and treat real estate as a long-term value play, researcher David Lynn offers his thoughts on asset allocation lessons learned.

Capital preservation is key for UPS’s real estate head Greg Spick. As a result, value-added and opportunistic funds are out in favor of debt, JVs and more deal control.

2009 will be real estate’s best vintage year but only a few will benefit. Experts from Cambridge, PREA and Crossroads discuss real estate vintage year performance, the winners and the losers.

Experts from Cambridge, PREA and Crossroads delve into benchmarking value-added and opportunistic real estate funds – what works and what doesn’t.

PREA’s Greg MacKinnon shares findings of a global survey of RE institutional investor intentions.

Jerry Gates of Hamilton Lane gives a macro outlook of the global real estate market and the red flags that could lead to a bubble in the asset class.

NEPC Principal Sean Ruhmann argues that slicing and dicing a real estate asset allocation model too far into markets and property types risks creating a beta play in portfolios.

Jerry Gates of Hamilton Lane says that RE investors need to keep expectations for returns in check in the current market, and not use outdated benchmarks.

Alan Pardee, managing partner of Mercury Capital Advisors, explores LP-GP negotiations for real estate funds and walks PrivcapRE through fundraising for two of Asia’s largest fundraises.

Fundraising is back. Mercury Capital Advisors’ managing partner Alan Pardee takes PrivcapRE on a world tour of LPs open for business.

Chris Merrill of Harrison Street Real Estate Capital tells Privcap about the property investment group’s strategy, where he sees market opportunities and how they had to build the company to run an open-ended core fund.

The U.S. real estate debt market is overfunded and mispriced, according to former CBRE Capital Partners president Ethan Penner.

Jeremy Plummer of CBRE Global Multi Manager argues U.S. core real estate is ‘fully priced’ and urges more investors to start exploring a global core portfolio.

Colony Capital CEO Tom Barrack, a man whose real estate reputation has been built on iconic hospitality deals, argues for an asset-light approach.

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

Single family REO is the last frontier in real estate, for Colony Capital CEO Tom Barrack. But the real window of opportunity could be over in just three years.