Are you speaking the language of real estate LPs? Do you have a plan B if your plan A doesn’t work out? If not, you may not make it past the first meeting with an institutional investor.

The traditional 10-year lease is under threat from the ‘WeWork phenomenon’ of start-up firms demanding shorter lease terms of just two to three years.

Investors need to start using taxi and Citi Bike data to buy their next property in NYC, if they want to stay ahead of where people are spending their time and money.

Data from taxis and Citi Bikes can give real estate investors the advantage of “quantifying the qualitative,” according to Will Silverman of Hodges Ward Elliot.

Operators shouldn’t be blinded by the real estate blind pool and consider raising LP capital through allocators and programmatic JVs as they look to become emerging investment managers.

Emerging managers and operators too often overlook their back office functions—and staffing needs—in the search for LP capital.

Asset managers are the unsung heroes of successful real estate investing and they need a seat at the deal table for every acquisition, argues TIAA-CREF’s chief of asset management, John Cornuke.

Brick and mortar retail may be under attack from online rivals but for Laurus Corporation there’s still plenty of upside in mall investing, not least in Los Angeles’ Playa Vista neighborhood.

Jack Foster, the man who created Franklin Templeton’s real assets multimanager business and REITs platform and is departing the firm this month, says it’s getting “harder and harder” for fund-of-funds shops to succeed.