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Real Estate
How to Make the Most of Real Estate’s Technological Revolution
The interplay of technology and demographics promises to transform the drivers of real estate investment performance for the foreseeable future, says Dan Tangherlini, the former chief of the U.S. General Services Administration.
February 19, 2016More -
Real Estate
Is Your Multifamily Strategy Too Broad?
Griffis Residential invests in 15-year-old multifamily assets, with deals in just four markets in the U.S. Such a high-focused strategy on “near-core” apartments requires lots of asset and property management sweat says the firm’s co-CEO David Birnbaum.
February 19, 2016More -
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Sweat and Focus in U.S. Multifamily
Griffis Residential invests in 15-year-old multifamily assets, with deals in just four markets in the U.S. Such a high-focused strategy on “near-core” apartments requires lots of asset and property management sweat says the firm’s co-CEO David Birnbaum.
February 19, 2016More -
Real Estate
Why I’m Not Celebrating the 2015 Fundraising Boom
The average size of a fund close in 2015 was $627M, a record high for private equity real estate. Yet, it masks a troubling trend.
February 18, 2016More -
Real Estate
Investing Through The Real Estate Cycle
Harbert Management Corporation’s Jon-Paul Momsen talks about reducing the pace of the firm’s multifamily acquisitions, ramping up in retail, and underwriting the next recession.
February 15, 2016More -
Real Estate
Execute Business Plans Sooner Rather Than Later
Jon-Paul Momsen of Harbert Management Corporation advises those with real estate assets to execute their business plans sooner rather than later.
February 15, 2016More -
Real Estate
Retail in Vietnam is a PE Opportunity, With a Caveat
Retail is one of the fastest-growing sectors in Vietnam and an opportunity for private equity—under the right circumstances.
February 10, 2016More -
Real Estate
Lessons From the Real Estate Downturn
Joe Valente of JPMorgan Asset Management shares observations from the real estate downturn between 2008 and 2010 and what lessons he learned.
February 8, 2016More -
Real Estate
Mistakes Emerging Managers Make With Commingled Funds
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.
February 8, 2016More -
Real Estate
Nine Questions Every LP Needs to Ask About Risk
U.S. endowments just suffered their worst performance in three years. Here are nine questions every investor should ask about their asset allocation policy.
February 8, 2016More -
Real Estate
CRE Needs to Get Real About Cyber Risk
It’s all too dangerous to assume cybersecurity is just an issue for retail and bank tenants. Building owners need to get real about the dangers too.
February 8, 2016More -
Real Estate
How To Get LP Capital as an Emerging Manager
Emerging managers and operators too often overlook their back office functions—and staffing needs—in the search for LP capital.
February 5, 2016More -
Real Estate
What KKR’s New HQ Means for the ‘War’ for Talent
Amid a heated battle for talent retention, KKR was looking for ways to keep its employees happy. The result was moving its headquarters in Manhattan and keeping parents and children together on business trips.
February 4, 2016More -
Real Estate
Why One Unconventional Location Benefits Hurting Retailers
Industry professionals explain why retail property is critical in making airport assets attractive to infrastructure investors.
February 3, 2016More -
Real Estate
The Reason China’s Slowdown Won’t Kill U.S. Real Estate
Many institutional investors argue there’s been a permanent shift in cross-border capital flows targeting U.S. commercial real estate, and any slowdown in Chinese capital inflows is merely part of the ebb and flow of real estate capital markets.
February 2, 2016More -
Real Estate
Eyeing Six German Cities for RE Investment
Allianz Real Estate’s Hauke Brede outlines where he sees RE investment opportunities in Germany, and markets to be avoided.
February 1, 2016More -
Real Estate
Weak Euro Fueling LP Interest
A weak euro is making European real estate strategies much more interesting for LPs, helping to drive down the “entry price” into deals, says Tristan Capital CEO Ric Lewis.
February 1, 2016More -
Real Estate
Why Asset Managers Should Be In On Acquisitions
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.
January 25, 2016More
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