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Beyond the ‘four food groups’: The rise of niche products and why classification now requires qualification

For five decades, institutional real estate has been organized into four neat buckets: office, retail, industrial, multifamily. Those buckets are now overflowing — and saying "we like industrial" tells you ...
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Playing the Long Game

Sport-anchored mixed-use development is the new playbook for professional sports. College athletics just gave it a whole new reason to exist. Sport-anchored real estate is not a new concept. Not ...
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Expect more insurers to snap up real estate investment platforms

Expect more insurers to snap up real estate investment platforms Insurance companies have long managed outside capital, but where scale exists, balance sheets are increasingly being rethought of as growth ...
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Wait … When was “Real Estate” Relabeled “Real Assets”?

How traditional investment lines are blurring and what it means for everyone chasing yield. What's going on with infrastructure? It's not just utility pipelines and toll roads anymore. Infrastructure is ...
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Next Stop: Retail Capital.

As I sipped my cup of tea on an early Monday morning in August, watching CNBC's Squawk Box, a Blackstone commercial crossed the screen marketing their private equity vehicles. It ...
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It’s time to power up

As the energy industry transitions to renewable sources, the real estate sector can participate in the growing battery energy storage sector through several interesting plays. Battery energy storage is a ...
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The Growth of Industrial Outdoor Storage

The Growth of Industrial Outdoor Storage (IOS) Industrial outdoor storage (IOS) may have once been an obscure abbreviation, but this subcategory of industrial real estate has now emerged as an ...
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Disrupting Prefab Housing

Manufactured housing gets a tech-driven makeover Manufactured housing is not a new, new thing. Not even close. I remember talking about it with a group of multifamily developers years ago ...
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Disrupting the Manufactured Housing Sector

Manufactured Housing Gets a Tech-Driven Makeover Manufactured housing is not a new, new thing. Not even close. I remember talking about it with a group of multifamily developers years ago ...
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The Race for Permanent Capital

The insurance industry is becoming a mechanism to drive long-term growth. The alternative asset`management space is undergoing a structural change, the race for permanent capital, and insurance companies are in ...
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