An executive summary of the PrivcapRE thought-leadership series “Strategies for Driving Net Operating Income”

Capital preservation is key for UPS’s real estate head Greg Spick. As a result, value-added and opportunistic funds are out in favor of debt, JVs and more deal control.

Tristan Capital’s Ric Lewis warns capital flows are running ahead of fundamentals in parts of Europe, but the region still represents best opportunity of ‘any asset class globally’.

Experts from Yardi, CBRE and Taurus explore the impact on returns of reducing expenses and driving revenues, and which focus gives the biggest bang for the buck.

Experts from W. P. Carey, AXA Real Estate and Real Capital Analytics discuss Europe’s core and peripheral markets, new Asian investors on the scene and the likelihood of increasing bank dispositions.

An essential 23-page, downloadable PrivcapRE Special Report on Performance and Portfolio.

How Three LPs execute their property strategies and their plans for the asset class, how they measure performance, and what their results have been.

How three LPs execute their property strategies and their plans for the asset class, how they measure performance, and what their results have been.

Higher going-in cap rate markets do not pay, argues TIAA-CREF’s Martha Peyton. Lower yielding markets deliver higher total returns over longer-term, she explains.

2009 will be real estate’s best vintage year but only a few will benefit. Experts from Cambridge, PREA and Crossroads discuss real estate vintage year performance, the winners and the losers.

Experts from Cambridge, PREA and Crossroads delve into benchmarking value-added and opportunistic real estate funds – what works and what doesn’t.

US investors to significantly grow foreign RE portfolios, but it’s about longer hold periods – and vehicles to match – as they seek income, as well as total, returns.

Experts from W. P. Carey, AXA Real Estate and Real Capital Analytics discuss the U. S. market, rental growth assumptions in 2014 and insights into whether cap rates will expand, or continue to compress.

Experts from Yardi, CBRE and Taurus discuss NOI growth in 2014, being paid a premium for vacancy and the challenge of tenant renewals for older properties.

Our panel of experts from W. P. Carey, AXA Real Estate and Real Capital Analytics explore the markets ripe for sales, growing appetite for portfolio sales and opportunities for spread investors.

Jerry Gates of Hamilton Lane gives a macro outlook of the global real estate market and the red flags that could lead to a bubble in the asset class.

PREA’s Greg MacKinnon shares findings of a global survey of RE institutional investor intentions.

NEPC Principal Sean Ruhmann argues that slicing and dicing a real estate asset allocation model too far into markets and property types risks creating a beta play in portfolios.