Millennials are affecting the real estate market, causing a shift away from suburban homes to multifamily assets and condos in urban cores.

ASB Real Estate’s managing director Jim Darcey talks about the role of asset managers today, and how changing tenant needs—and rising tenant improvement costs—are putting greater pressure on firms.

Real estate is not about buildings, it’s about place-making and monetizing the density of people, says NAREIM CEO Gunnar Branson. To do that, GPs need to have better data.

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.

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.

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.

Tenant improvement costs for STEM-related office properties can be more than 3x the cost of traditional TIs, says Kennedy Wilson’s Nick Colonna, amid calls to be “defensive” in underwriting property rehab costs.

Rubenstein Partners on finding deep value in U.S. office markets. From taking on a vacant 460,000-square-foot complex in a market with a 23% vacancy rate and a fully occupied office in a “messy” Boston neighborhood.