One might have to go back to the iconic anti-colonialist Mahatma Gandhi to recall an Indian leader who has garnered as much global attention as India’s new Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
With an expected 1.1 billion new city dwellers in the world during the next 15 years, global cities are becoming the driving force behind their host economies in attracting capital and talent.
The world of real estate finance has been turned on its head in the post–Lehman Bros era. That is particularly true in the debt space, where the banks that once dominated the field are conspicuous by their absence.
While the term "big data" captures the imagination, it is poorly understood outside of the realm of data science and those instances where it exists. Real estate investors typically do not have big data but most certainly do have a data opportunity or “dark data".
The past year has been one of tremendous growth for Institutional Real Estate, Inc. And, as has been stated in the “Physician heal thyself” mould, as a media company we’re not always the most proficient in putting forward our own message.
With real estate–rich defined benefit plans shrinking and real estate–poor defined contribution plans expanding rapidly, the real estate investment industry is feeling a sense of urgency to make deeper DC plan inroads.
Fundraisers had a hotter hand during third quarter than the second quarter — but not as hot as the first quarter. Such are the ups and downs of fundraising in 2014.
In November 2014, both global and Asia Pacific real estate stocks built on October’s strong results, as the markets continued to respond positively to a combination of surprise policy easing/stimulus measures.