The student-accommodation market remains fragmented, but is rapidly institutionalizing as investors and developers realize the returns aren’t academic

The single-family rental business has turned institutional real estate strategy on its head, with the six largest players quickly investing more than $16 billion in the once “mom-and-pop” business. How will they cash out?

Senior Economist of REIS, Ryan Severino, and Carroll Organization CEO, Pat Carroll, consider the rebirth of Fannie and Freddie and the implications for multifamily investors.

Starwood Waypoint, Colin Wiel’s residential property group, has built a portfolio of more than 10,000 single-family rental homes across the U.S. since 2009. Here’s how they did it.

Ryan Severino, senior economist of Reis, says despite a peak in multifamily fundamentals, apartment rents and capital market demand will continue to grow.

Praedium Group’s Russ Appel on why multifamily housing hasn’t peaked, more sustainable growth rates for the sector and the supply outlook.

Allocation expectations. IPD’s Greg Mansell discusses the results of the latest research into sovereign wealth and pension funds’ real estate allocations and the outlook for commercial property investment.

Metropolitan Real Estate President David Sherman discusses the risks and opportunities for 2014.

Investor appetites are changing in Brazil as international and domestic LPs move away from the residential sector, eye secondary markets and look for long-term investments.

Recession-resistant, cash flow strong and growing demand. Why Albert Rabil of Kayne Anderson Real Estate Advisors believes it’s also time to be a seller of student housing.

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.

As yields compress in the student housing sector owing to capital inflows, Albert Rabil of Kayne Anderson Real Estate Advisors explains his firm’s expanded focus on niche property sectors, including senior living and medical office.

Real estate, and the use of it, is shrinking. For Gunnar Branson of NAREIM the key to successful investing is now about creative mixed-use.