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

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.

Defined contribution plans could inject more than $180B of fresh capital into private real estate, but there are critical issues to overcome.

Sustainability is the capitalization of efficiency, according to GRESB’s Nils Kok, who says real estate managers ignoring the issue are leaving money on the table

Can the correlation between sustainability measures and the bottom line be proven? ULI Greenprint is trying to, and hopes to soon have data on the pay back times for sustainability cap-ex.

Healthy buildings are the next stage of the sustainable movement. Paul Scialla of the Well Building Standards says they can also boost rental rates by up to 25 percent.

The payback time for introducing sustainability measures in an asset is on average just 1.2 years, yet managers are running the risk of obsolescence by doing nothing at all.

APG Asset Management is serious about sustainability. Patrick Kanters talks about the pension’s strategy.

Healthy buildings are the next frontier for sustainable real estate, but landlords need to be careful when making claims about what their properties can do for people.

Investors are pricing in long-term low yields in Europe, meaning LPs should target irreplaceable assets says LaSalle Investment Management’s Europe head of strategy.

As APG Asset Management takes a more global view of real estate, the firm’s Patrick Kanters talks about diversification, benchmarking GPs, global core opportunities and rental housing.

Investors are set to allocate more than €35B of new equity to real estate, but are struggling to find suitable vehicles, INREV CEO Matthias Thomas reveals.

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Real estate fund managers are bullish on the outlook for their sector and expect to do more deals in 2014 than in 2013. That spike in activity is likely to cause a whole new set of problems.

Don’t overpay for real estate, don’t over-lever and treat real estate as a long-term value play, researcher David Lynn offers his thoughts on asset allocation lessons learned.

REITs have been “hands down” the best performer for the $28 billion corporate pension, UPS. Value-added, opportunistic funds have “significantly lagged” behind.