Operating partner Barend de Loor, of Eris Property Group, talks about the greatest opportunities for investment in Sub-Saharan Africa and the realities of operating on the continent.

Significant and sustained capital flows into core U.S. real estate mean it’s a good time for value-added and opportunistic managers to sell – but only when they’ve done their job, says Rob Stuckey, The Carlyle Group’s U.S. head of real estate.

LaSalle Investment Management’s Jacques Gordon tells PrivcapRE how he expects global property markets to perform in 2015.

An increasing number of LPs are spending more time negotiating co-investment opportunity rights. But the consequences of not executing on co-investment deals could be more serious than LPs imagine.

Capital from little-known Middle Eastern institutions and family offices will increase dramatically as investors look for returns and diversification outside the region. Value-added and opportunistic strategies in the U.S. and co-investment will be favored.

Meyer Bergman’s Markus Meijer tells PrivcapRE about the risks and opportunities he sees in the European retail sector, amid the ongoing fallout from the financial crisis.

Real estate fundamentals are “as good as they’ve been,” says portfolio manager Marc Davidson. The challenge now is pricing in certain property sectors.

Pat Lynch, managing director of data center solutions at CBRE, talks about the impact of cloud computing on the data center sector, as well as the real operational costs, and the challenges corporations face in assessing their future technological needs.

Africa’s commercial real estate market is expected to experience dynamic growth in coming years. However, there are significant challenges ahead.

The U.S. housing recovery played out differently to GTIS Partners’ post-crisis expectations, but CIO Tom Shapiro says the firm remains an active investor in raw lots, finished lots and home building.

Institutional investors will make ‘a lot of money’ on Brazil real estate in 2015 and 2016, according to GTIS Partners’ Tom Shapiro whose firm is eyeing equity investments of $100M to $500M apiece.

Property Funds Research’s Andrew Baum explains why the PE real estate fund model has fundamentally changed the role of property in investment portfolios.

Real estate investors in the U.S. face a possible shutdown in the supply pipeline, as developer yields compress amid rising interest rates.

Real estate investors should prepare for painful attrition and “a lot of damage” in the retail industry, as the industry shifts to online sales and smaller stores.

3D printing is set to transform the way retailers sell their, severely impacting demand for real estate, how inventory is stored and product distribution.

Private real estate and private equity are highly correlated to their public market rivals.

VBI Real Estate is looking to provide gap financing for distressed developers in Brazil, but one of the firm’s founding principals, Ken Wainer, believes the opportunity could last as little as two years.

Jaguar Growth Partners is building a $2B deal pipeline and plans to open Brazil and Asia offices in the next two years. Gary Garrabrant discusses starting the firm, lessons learned and where he sees the greatest opportunities.