Features

The Opportunity for Increased Institutional Investment in Public Real Estate

Institutional investors historically have been relatively slow to embrace public real estate1 as a significant part of their allocation to real estate.  Real estate allocations of most pension funds and other institutions are overwhelmingly, and in many cases entirely, invested in private real estate vehicles such as open-end funds, closed-end funds, joint ventures, and separate… Read more

Features

The Revolution, Part II: Revisiting Opportunity in the Small Town

In 2014, Real Estate Issues included a review of The Metropolitan Revolution: How Cities and Metros are Fixing our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy by Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley. 1 The lessons outlined remain prescient, especially for the development community seeking new locations and opportunities for its projects. Among the remarkable responses to the divisiveness inherent in… Read more

Fundamentals: Cybersecurity Oversight and Strategy for Commercial Real Estate

Continued in Volume 42, Number 10 and Volume 43, Number 1. Fundamentals of Cybersecurity Oversight and Risk Management Anyone who deals with large amounts of data, especially from multiple sources, is vulnerable to the various attacks we read about every day.  Cybersecurity has become a major issue for commercial real estate in many more ways… Read more

Perspectives

Industry Legends: Ray Torto, Ph.D., CRE

Interviewer: Steve Felix Co-Founder and Partner Felix / Weiner Consulting Group New York, New York Interviewee: Ray Torto, Ph.D., CRE Lecturer Harvard Graduate School of Design Cambridge, Massachusetts Felix:  Ray, how did you get started in the commercial real estate industry? Torto: It was a little bit of a lucky break. I was working in the… Read more

Editor's Note

Editor’s Note – Global Cities Issue

Change — like death and taxes — is certain and inevitable, so much so that it is even a fundamental premise of economic and valuation theory. Although no one has a crystal ball, it is, nonetheless, important to be able to predict the future as it is the foresight and anticipation of what is to… Read more

Discussions & Interviews

Keynote Address with Chip Conley

Speaker: Chip Conley Head of Global Hospitality & Strategy, Airbnb Moderator: Elizabeth Youngblood Lambird Executive Director, Stanford SPIRE “Dramatic disruption in the hospitality business” is what Chip Conley, Head of Global Hospitality & Strategy described as the cause and the effect of his company, Airbnb, when he spoke to the Global Cities in an Era of Change audience at Stanford University on March 31, 2016. This... Read More