Institutional Real Estate, Inc. Podcast

Like so many other sectors of our economy, student housing has been hit by the coronavirus pandemic and the partial economic shut down, as colleges and universities have sent their students home to do their course work and observe social distancing? How will student housing — one of real estate’s hottest property types — rebound from this? What are the demographics telling us about the future level of college enrollment and occupancy at student housing developments? And what are the biggest short-term and long-term threats to the standout performance of the student housing space? Brian Nelson, founder and president of NB Private Capital, one of the major players in student housing, joins the program to answer those and other questions. (06/2020)

Like so many other sectors of our economy, student housing has been hit by the coronavirus pandemic and the partial economic shut down, as colleges and universities have sent their students home to do their course work and observe social distancing? How will student housing — one of real estate’s hottest property types — rebound from this? What are the demographics telling us about the future level of college enrollment and occupancy at student housing developments? And what are the biggest short-term and long-term threats to the standout performance of the student housing space? Brian Nelson, founder and president of NB Private Capital, one of the major players in student housing, joins the program to answer those and other questions. (06/2020)

Our guest, and coronavirus survivor, is Clay Grubb, chairman and CEO of Grubb Properties, and author of Creating the Urban Dream: Tackling the Affordable Housing Crisis with Compassion. He hails from Lexington, N.C., barbecue capital of the United States, and now runs his organization in Charlotte, N.C., where he counts basketball legend Michael Jordan and football star Cam Newton among his high-rise apartment neighbors. And, yes, we discuss his book and his prescriptions for bringing affordable housing to cities across America. (06/2020)

Our guest, and coronavirus survivor, is Clay Grubb, chairman and CEO of Grubb Properties, and author of Creating the Urban Dream: Tackling the Affordable Housing Crisis with Compassion. He hails from Lexington, N.C., barbecue capital of the United States, and now runs his organization in Charlotte, N.C., where he counts basketball legend Michael Jordan and football star Cam Newton among his high-rise apartment neighbors. And, yes, we discuss his book and his prescriptions for bringing affordable housing to cities across America. (06/2020)

Marek Handzel, editor of Institutional Real Estate Europe, discusses the European Union's proposed recovery fund to help countries weather the severe recession triggered by the coronavirus pandemic. He also offers his assessment of the overall economic temperature of the continent. (05/2020)

Has China’s historic growth rate — impeded by an increasingly authoritarian central government and rapidly aging population — entered a long-term slowdown? Do prosperous investment opportunities still exist there? We pose those questions to our guest, Dexter Roberts, former China bureau chief and Asia news editor at Bloomberg Businessweek, and author of The Myth of Chinese Capitalism. (05/2020)

Geoffrey Dohrmann, founder and CEO of Institutional Real Estate, Inc., discusses the company's new "four-by-fours" with investors, the outlook for the IREI event schedule, and what investors have to say about current state of affairs in light of the continuing battle against the coronavirus and efforts to fully reopen the U.S. economy. (05/2020)

Has the federal stimulus bill given the apartment sector the support it needs to continue performing for investors? And, how are real estate investors responding to coronavirus realities and waves of government intervention? Loretta Clodfelter, senior editor of Institutional Real Estate Americas, discusses the magazine's latest reporting on the topics. (05/2020)

Matt Sandoval, managing director of Barings Private Equity Real Assets joins the program to discuss his organization’s recent decision to close two transactions involving the sale of telecommunications infrastructure and ground assets. But the company is back on the hunt for a new collection of telecom infrastructure assets, as well as assets related to transportation, water and energy holdings related to climate change, among other categories. He explains the current landscape for infrastructure investing. (05/2020)

In St. Albert, Canada, Mayor Cathy Heron is launching a local infrastructure project called the sustainable neighborhoods program that employs waste-to-energy technology to empty local landfills and use the gas produced by garbage to create heat or electricity with basically zero emissions and a reusable ash byproduct. She joins us to explain the project and its economics. (05/2020)

In St. Albert, Canada, Mayor Cathy Heron is launching a local infrastructure project called the sustainable neighborhoods program that employs waste-to-energy technology to empty local landfills and use the gas produced from garbage to create heat or electricity with basically zero emissions and a reusable ash byproduct. She joins us to explain the pilot project and its economics. (05/2020)

Both political parties and the White House are expressing support for a federal infrastructure stimulus bill, particularly in the current low interest rate environment. There is talk of issuing 50-year Treasury bonds, potentially under a “war bond” type offering. What might an infrastructure stimulus package look like? To what degree are private investors likely to have opportunities to participate? Mark Bell, head of family office services and private capital at Balentine, an Atlanta-based wealth management firm, has been following the negotiations and joins the program to clue us in. (05/2020)

What impact has the coronavirus pandemic had on the Asia Pacific office market thus far? Will open office and coworking be enduring trends? What will the workplace of the future look, especially in light of new “smart building” technologies? And what does it all mean for the future fortunes of office investors? Tim Armstrong, an executive with Knight Frank Asia Pacific, joins us from Singapore to offer his insights. (05/2020)

How has the coronavirus pandemic affected alternative investments? Why have some alt investments been sidelined? What has been the impact on investor behavior? And when will industry conferences come back and how will they differ from the past? We talk with guest John Harrison, executive director of the Alternative & Direct Investment Securities Association, better known as ADISA. (04/2020)

Competitive video-gaming is heralded to be a bigger category than TV viewing, three times the size of the global film business, and the leading form of entertainment for the Gen Z and millennials cohorts. The world's 2.6 billion video-gamers are represented by teams and leagues built around videogames, including Super League Gaming, whose CEO, Ann Hand, is our guest. The Super League Gaming platform was cited by Zacks Investment Research earlier this month as one the five recession-proof stocks. (04/2020)